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hostem ab Antiochea recessisse, Bibulum Antiocheae esse Deiotarum confestim iam ad me venientem cum cognovl. magno et firmo equitatu et peditatu et cum omnibus suis copils certiorem feel non videri esse causam, cur abesset a regno, meque ad eum, si quid novi forte accidisset, statim litteras nuntiosque missurum esse.
LESSON Mountain Brigands claim
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the Governor s Attention
eo animo venissem, ut utrlque provinciae,
Cumque
si ita
tempus ferret, subvenlrem, turn id, quod iam ante statueram vehementer interesse utrlusque provinciae, pacare loAmanum et perpetuum hostem ex eo monte tollere, agere perrexi. Cumque me discedere ab eo monte simulassem 1
.
ab
from
the neighborhood
of (the town name without the " from " prep, would mean rather cf. the note on p. 79, 1. 21).
recessisse est,
recede, 3, -cessi, -cessum
Bibulum
back,
fall
(Roman) governor of
Syria. ply -que with this clause.
the
Sup-
5. me subject of a new main clause in the indirect discourse.
si
quid
on
p. 85, 7.
pose.
novi
if anything.
(neut.) noun. 1.
cum
forte
as
the note
cf.
12.
causal.
animo pur:
utrlque provinciae
i.e.
Cili-
been glad to accept. ad: i.e. to venientem: translate by a join.
ciaand Syria. ita tempus ferret i.e. freely, should have opportunity. 8. subvenlrem i.e. auxilio essem (subvenio, 4, -veni, -ventum turn id ... agere now. est)
relative clause.
perrexi
2.
king,
3.
Deiotarum: a friendly native
whose
et
.
.
offer of aid
.
et
.
.
.
et
Cicero had
the
first
of these conjunctions connects the two adjs. the remaining two may be rendered and and in fact.
.
.
.
suiscopiis: his following. 4. non videri esse causam, cur there did not seem to be (any} occasion for him to absent himself; lit. what?
abesset
.
(1.
n) 7proceeded to carry
out a project (per go,
perrectum 9.
est,
perrexi,
3,
proceed}.
interesse
interest,
-esse,
with gen., be to the interest pacare namely, (the proj(of}. ect of} reducing to order.
-fuit,
10.
perpetuum hostem namely,
some troublesome robber hordes. 11.
-que
translate as
if
itaque.
