A First Latin Book for Junior High Schools

322. 1. Rex Hispaniae multōs militēs habebat. 2. Frater meus item miles fuit et in bello vulneratus est. 3. Hanc lēgem probāmus et laudāmus. 4. Ad eum locum magnum numerum militum duxit. 5. Rex ab inimico interfectus est. 6. Hi homines lēgēs non timent. 7. Hic vir potentiam rēgis nōn timet. 8. Militēs Rōmānī scuta et gladiōs habuerunt. 9. Fratrem meum saepe laudāvistī. 10. Hi militēs patriam suam amant. 11. Militēs nostri scuta nōn gerunt.

323. 1. This law is good, and it is praised by many. 2. Our soldiers are now in Gaul. 3. Your brother saw the soldiers in the forest. 4. Many barbarians were killed in flight by the soldiers. 5. This man has lost his brother and his son.

SUGGESTED DRILL

1. What is the ending of the genitive singular in the third declension? in the second declension? 2. Decline together lex bona. 3. Decline together the words for this soldier. 4. Give the endings of the accusative plural of silva, dominus, and homō. 5. How do homō and vir differ in meaning? 6. What is the legislature of a state?

LESSON LV

THE THIRD DECLENSION (Continued)

NEUTER NOUNS WITH THE GENITIVE PLURAL IN -UM

324. There are many neuter nouns of the third declension. These, like the masculine and feminine nouns, form the nominative in different ways. Neuter nouns belonging to the same general class of the third declension as the masculine and feminine nouns which have been given, are declined as follows:

a. These four words illustrate different formations of the nominative, but there is no difference in the manner in which they are declined. If any one of the four is learned, the others can be declined, when the nominative and genitive are known. These nominatives are explained in section 624 of the Appendix, page 272.

325. In the neuter noun templum of the second declension (section 56), we have seen that the accusative singular is the same as the nominative singular, and that the accusative plural is the same as the nominative plural. This is also true of the neuter nouns of the third declension given above, and it is true of all neuter nouns in the Latin language, no matter what the declension to which they belong.

326.

VOCABULARY

caput, capitis, N., head
corpus, corporis, N., body
defendō, -fendere, -fendi,
-fēnsum, defend

dēfessus, -a, -um, tired out,
exhausted

flūmen, flūminis, N., river
iter, itineris, N., road, march,
journey

nēmō, dat. nēminī, acc. nēmi-
nem (no gen. or abl.), no

one

a. The missing genitive and dative of němō are supplied from another word which will be given later.

EXERCISES

327. 1. Illud flumen lātum et altum est. 2. Hi hominēs magna corpora habent, sed militēs bonī nōn erunt. 3. Frater tuus iter longum fecerat et defessus erat. 4. Hic equus caput parvum habet. 5. Nēmō fratrem tuum laudat. 6. Patriam nostram gladiis, nōn verbis, dēfendēmus. 7. Multi militēs Rōmānī in eō proelio interfecti sunt, sed nēmō fugit. 8. Corpus meum scūtō tēxi, et non vulneratus sum. 9. In hoc flumine sunt multae insulae. 10. Lēgēs Italiae et Galliae nōn eaedem sunt.

328. 1. I shall defend my brother with my sword. 2. We shall see the large river from this place. 3. This wild beast has a large body. 4. The head of this statue is beautiful. 5. The boys have been working (have worked), and they are tired out.

SUGGESTED DRILL

1. What is the ending of the nominative and accusative plural of neuter nouns of the second declension? of the third declension nouns given in section 324? 2. What other form of neuter nouns in the singular number is the same as the nominative? 3. Decline together flumen latum. 4. How many case forms of němō are there? 5. Decline iter. 6. Give an English adjective which is connected in derivation with defendō.