second declension. Consequently, _a good
sailor_ is /nauta bonus\. So, _the wicked farmer_ is /agricola malus\.
Learn the following declensions:

_85._ nauta bonus (bases naut- bon-), m., _the good sailor_

SINGULAR
Nom. nauta bonus
Gen. nautae boni:
Dat. nautae bono:
Acc. nautam bonum
Abl. nauta: bono:
Voc. nauta bone

PLURAL
Nom. nautae boni:
Gen. nauta:rum bono:rum
Dat. nauti:s boni:s
Acc. nauta:s bono:s
Abl. nauti:s boni:s
Voc. nautae boni:

_86._ EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 285.

I. 1. Est[1] in vico nauta bonus. 2. Sextus est amicus nautae boni.
3. Sextus nautae bono galeam dat. 4. Populus Romanus nautam bonum
laudat. 5. Sextus cum nauta bono praedam portat. 6. Ubi, nauta bone,
sunt anna et tela legati Romani? 7. Nautae boni ad bellum properant.
8. Fama nautarum bonorum est clara. 9. Pugnae sunt gratae nautis bonis.
10. Oppidani nautas bonos curant. 11. Cur, nautae boni, mali agricolae
ad Rhenum properant? 12. Mali agricolae cum bonis nautis pugnant.

II. 1. The wicked farmer is hastening to the village with (his) booty.
2. The reputation of the wicked farmer is not good. 3. Why does Galba's
daughter give arms and weapons to the wicked farmer? 4. Lesbia invites
the good sailor to dinner. 5. Why is Lesbia with the good sailor
hastening from the cottage? 6. Sextus, where is my helmet? 7. The good
sailors are hastening to the toilsome battle. 8. The horses of the
wicked farmers are small. 9. The Roman people give money to the good
sailors. 10. Friends care for the good sailors. 11. Whose friends are
fighting with the wicked farmers?

[Footnote 1: /Est\, beginning a declarative sentence, _there is._]

[Illustration: GALEAE]

LESSON XII

NOUNS IN _-IUS_ AND _-IUM_

[Special Vocabulary]

NOUNS
/fi:lius, fi:li:\, m., _son_ (filial)
fluvius, fluvi:, m., _river_ (fluent)
/gladius, gladi:\, m., _sword_ (gladiator)
/praesidium, praesi'di:\, n., _garrison, guard, protection_
/proelium, proeli:\, n., _battle_

ADJECTIVES
/fi:nitimus, -a, -um\, _bordering upon, neighboring, near to_.
As a noun, /fi:nitimi:, -o:rum\, m., plur., _neighbors_
/Germa:nus, -a, -um\, _German_. As a noun, /Germa:nus, -i:\, m.,
_a German_
/multus, -a, -um\, _much_; plur., _many_

ADVERB
/saepe\, _often_

_87._ Nouns of the second declension in -ius and -ium en