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Herbert Chester Nutting
A First Latin Reader
Lesson 35. Operations about Boston


1912

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 34. The Outbreak of the Revolution 36. The Battles of Long Island and Trenton 
LESSON 35
Operations about Boston

Sed antequam Vasingtō in Britanniam Novam pervenīre potuit, iterum ācriter pugnātum est in quōdam colle, ubi posteā Americānī columnam[1] maximam eōrum nōmine[2] statuērunt,[3] quī ibī prō lībertāte vītam[4] suam largītī sunt. Eō[5] in proeliō Britannī vīcērunt; sed nē hostēs quidem satis laudāre poterant virtūtem colōnōrum, quī impetum veterānōrum tam audācter excēperant.

Vasingtō, postquam[6] illūc[7] pervēnit, hostīs mēnsēs multōs intrā mūnītiōnēs Bostōnis continuit. Tum, cum eius cōpiae maiōrēs factae essent, subitō noctū prope urbem clam collem quendam occupāvit, atque ibi vāllum summā celeritāte exstrūxit; quīn etiam ubi diēs illūxit duxque hostium mūnītiōnēs novās animadvertit, vehementer commōtus ille: “Hī colōnī ūnā nocte,” inquit, “tanta opera perfēcērunt, quanta[8] meus exercitus mēnse tōtō perficere nōn potest.”[9] Hōc vāllō[10] exstrūctō, cum cotīdiē tēla plūrima ballistīs[11] Americanōrum in urbem mitterentur, hostēs brevī nāvēs cōnscendere atque ē portū fugere coāctī sunt.

Colōnī adhūc bellum gesserant ut iūra cīvium Britannicōrum sibi concēderentur; iam vērō, cum[12] neque rēx neque[13] senātus eōs audīre vellet, dē[14] Britanniā dēscīscere[15] novamque condere rem pūblicam[16] cōnstituērunt.

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Columna

In the picture is shown a monument about a hundred feet in height, erected at Rome in 104 a.d., in honor of the emperor Trajan. On its sides are sculptured scenes descriptive of one of Trajan’s important campaigns, a fact which makes this column a very important source of information about the details of Roman military life.

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  1. ↑ columna, -ae, f, monument
  2. ↑ nōmine: in honour.
  3. ↑ statuērunt, i.e. posurērunt.
  4. ↑ vītam: translate as though the noun were plural.
  5. ↑ eō: modifier of proeliō.
  6. ↑ Vasingtō, postquam: cf. the note on hostēs, cum, p. 20, l. 17.
  7. ↑ illūc: adv, thither.
  8. ↑ tanta … quanta: such as.
  9. ↑ potest: could, a common idiomatic use of the pres. indic. of this verb.
  10. ↑ hōc vāllō, etc.: the abl. absol. may be translated as a “when” clause, and the following words by a participial clause.
  11. ↑ ballistīs: abl. of means.
  12. ↑ cum: causal.
  13. ↑ neque … neque: neither … nor.'
  14. ↑ dē: from.
  15. ↑ dēscīscere: dēscīscō, 3, -scīvī, -scītum est, separate.
  16. ↑ rem pūblicam: commonwealth.
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