mes, by playing the
Pandean pipes.

Inconcinnus erat cerni Telamonius Ajax;
Ajax (ut referunt) vir bonus ire minor:

The Telamonian Ajax was a rum un to look at;
The lesser Ajax (as they say) a good un to go.

The Grecians used to call Ajax senior, the _fighting cock_, and Ajax
junior, the _running cock_.

Verbs of the infinitive mood are sometimes placed alone by the figure
ellipsis, as

Siphonum de more oculis demittere fluctus Dardanidae:

The Trojans (began understood) to pipe their eyes.

As for AEneas he might have been a town _crier_.

GERUNDS AND SUPINES

govern the cases of their own verbs, as

Efferor studio pulices industrios videndi:

I am transported with the desire of seeing the industrious fleas.

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GERUNDS.

"When Dido found AEneas would not come,
She mourned in silence, and was Di-do-dum."

Gerunds in di have the same construction as genitive cases, and depend
both on certain substantives and adjectives, as

Londinensem innatus amor civem urget edendi:

An innate love of eating excites the London citizen.

People are accustomed to utter a great deal of cant about the
intellectual poverty of civic magistrates, and common councilmen in
general; but it must be allowed that those respectable individuals have
often _a great deal in them_.

[Illustration: TURTUR ALDERMANICUS.]

Gerunds in do have the same construction with ablative, and gerunds in
dum with accusative cases, as

Scribendi ratio conjuncta cum loquendo est:

The means of writing are joined with speaking.

Some things are written precisely after the writer's way of speaking. We
once, for example, saw the following notice posted in a gentleman's
preserve.

Whear 'as Gins and Engens are Set on
Thes Grouns for the Destruction Of
Varmint, Any trespussing Will be prossy-
Cuted a-cordin Too Law.

Locus ad agendum amplissimus:

A place very honourable to plead in.

It may be questioned whether Cicero would have said this of the Old
Bailey.

When necessity is signified, the gerund in dum is used without a
preposition, the verb est being added.

Cavendum est ne deprensus sis:

You must take care you 're not caught out.

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A piece of advice of special importance to schoolboys on many occasions,
such as the following: shirking down town; making devils, or letting off
gunpowder behind the school, or in the yard; con