Latin Composition

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 59. REVIEW (.B) Book I. 23, 24. On the following day it was announced to the enemy that Caesar had changed his course and gone to Bibracte, which was the richest city of the Helvetians, to provide for grain. The Helvetians thought that he was withdrawing because he was frightened, and attacked him in the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 59. REVIEW (.B) Book I. 23, 24. On the following day it was announced to the enemy that Caesar had changed his course and gone to Bibracte, which was the richest city of the Helvetians, to provide for grain. The Helvetians thought that he was withdrawing because he was frightened, and attacked him in the rear; but Caesar, after leading his forces to the nearest hill and drawing up his line of battle, stationed two legions on the top of the ridge, and collected the packs in one place. The Helvetians, following with all their baggage, formed a phalanx close bys the line of battle of the Romans. im; in Latin, 'into.' 2close by, sub, and the Ablative. ((7) Book II. 23, 24. The soldiers of the ninth and tenth legions, who had taken their stand on the left wing, drove the Atrebatians, with whom they had been fighting, to the river. Having killed a large part of them, they crossed the river and renewed the battle. The Nervians knew that if the Viromandui, who had been fighting with the eighth and eleventh legions, should be put to flight, the camp would be exposed in front and on the left side, and so they hastened to that place. After surrounding the legions on the exposed flank, they continued the battle even to the highest point of the camp. The camp followers, who saw that a part of the enemy had crossed the river and were moving about in our camp, took to flight, some in one direction, others in another. LESSON XIV Substantive Clauses of Desire. ? B. 294, 295. I, 2, 296. i; A. andG. 563; H. 564,565,568. 2. Ablative of Accompaniment. ? B. 222; A. and G. 4i3; H. 473, 474. 2. Note i. Substantive Clauses of Desire 60. Clauses of Desire introduced by ut or n (never qul) are used as the objects of many verbs denoting an action directed toward the future. Some ...