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Herbert Chester Nutting
A First Latin Reader
Lesson 44. Washington retires to Private Life


1912

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 43. The Surrender of Cornwallis 45. The Father of his Country 
LESSON 44
Washington retires to Private Life

Pāce factā, Carletō, dux Britannicus, quī tum Eborācum Novum praesidiō tenēbat, cum exercitū nāvēs cōnscendere domumque redīre ā rēge iussus est.

Illam in urbem Vasingtō lēgātōs[1] suōs paulō post convocāvit. Cumque pauca locūtus eōs valēre iussisset[2], lēgātī, quī eō duce[3] annōs circiter[4] octō stīpendia fēcerant[5], lacrimās nōn potuērunt diūtius continēre, sed flentēs imperātōrem dextrā tenuērunt. Lēgātīs dīmissīs, Vasingtō, ut[6] imperium suum dēpōneret, ad urbem statim profectus est, ubi senātus[7] tum habēbātur.

Cum[8] iter faceret, multitūdinēs maximae ex oppidīs omnibus ēgressae flōrēs in viā sparsērunt[9]; et inter fausta[10] nōmina etiam pater patriae est appellātus. Sic prōgressus est usque ad urbem, ubi eum senātus exspectābat[11]; tum imperiō dēpositō, domum sine morā contendit, arbitrātus[12] sē iam in praediō iūre[13] ōtiōsum[14] vīvere posse, sīcut fēcerat, antequam bellum indictum est.

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  1. ↑ lēgātōs: staff officers.
  2. ↑ eōs valēre iussisset: had bidden them (to) fare well (valeō, 2, valuī).
  3. ↑ eō duce: cf. advenā duce, p. 21, l. 14.
  4. ↑ circiter: cf. p. 45, l. 1.
  5. ↑ stīpendīa fēcerant: cf. p. 42, l. 6.
  6. ↑ ut: for the purpose (of).
  7. ↑ senātus … habēbatur: freely, Congress was … in session.
  8. ↑ cum: as.
  9. ↑ sparsērunt: spargō, 3, sparsī, sparsus, scatter.
  10. ↑ fausta: faustus, -a, -um, complimentary.
  11. ↑ exspectābat: note the tense.
  12. ↑ arbitrātus: cf. the note on veritī, p. 2, l. 17.
  13. ↑ iūre: abl. of iūs, used adverbially; cf. iniūriā, p. 48, l. 3.
  14. ↑ ōtiōsum: cf. p. 38, l. 6, note.
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