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144 THE ACCUSATIVE OF EXTENT
332.
EXERCISES
First learn the special vocabulary, p. 297.
I.
- Caesar maximam partem aedificiōrum incendit. 2. Magna pars mūnītiōnis aquā flūminis dēlēta est.
- Gallī huius regiōnis quīnque mīlia hominum coēgerant.
- Duo ex meīs frātribus eundem rūmōrem audīvērunt.
- Quis Rōmānōrum erat clarior Caesare?
- Quīnque cohortēs ex illā legiōne castra quam fortissimē dēfendēbant.
- Hic locus aberat aequō spatiō[1] ab castrīs Caesaris et castrīs Germānōrum.
- Caesar simul atque pervēnit, plūs commeātūs ab sociīs postulāvit.
- Nōnne mercātōrēs magnitūdinem īnsulae cognōverant? Longitūdinem sed nōn lātitūdinem cognōverant.
- Paucī hostium obtinēbant collem quem explōrātōrēs nostrī vīdērunt.
II.
- I have two brothers, and one of them lives at Rome.
- Cæsar stormed that very town with three legions.
- In one hour he destroyed a great part of the fortification.
- When the enemy could no longer[2] defend the gates, they retreated to a hill which was not far distant.Latin, was distant by a small space.
- There three thousand of them bravely resisted the Romans.[3]
LESSON LIX
NUMERALS (Continued) • THE ACCUSATIVE OF EXTENT
333. Learn the first twenty of the ordinal numerals (§ 478). The ordinals are all declined like bonus.
334. The distributive numerals are declined like the plural of bonus. The first three are
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singulī, -ae, -a, one each, one by one bīnī, -ae, -a, two each, two by two ternī, -ae, -a, three each, three by three |
335. We have learned that, besides its use as object, the accusative is used to express space relations not covered by the ablative. We have had such expressions as per plūrimōs annōs, for a great many
