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Fuit in emendando quaedam difficultas

strēnuus, Britannīs parābat prōdere castra, quae colōnī in ripā flūminīs Hudsōnis posuerant, quōque ab Americānīs comportāta erant omnia, quae ad bellum necessāria erant; nam castra nātūrā locī mūnitissima erant, ac fūnis quōque ferreus ibi trāns flūmen ductus erat, nē nāvēs hostium longius adversō flūmine nāvigāre possent.

Britannī, cum iam diēs prōditiōnis appropinquāret, nūntium mīsērunt, quī ducem convenīret Americānum, litterāsque ab eō reportāret. Incolumis ad Arnoldium pervēnit nūntius; sed cum ad Britannōs redīret, ab Americānīs tribus captus est: quī captīvum sine morā in castrā proximā dēdūxērunt, quamquam ille miser omnibus modīs ab eīs salūtem impetrāre conātus est. Quā dē rē certior factus, Arnoldius ad Britannōs quam celerrimē perfugit; quōrum in exercitū imperātor brevī factus est.

Nūntius interim, causā cognitā, capitis est damnātus; litterās enim, quās manū ducis Americānī scrīptās ferēbat, delēre nōn potuerat, antequam in castrā ā colōnīs tribus ductus est. Arnoldius, cum contrā suōs cīvēs acerrimē bellum gessisset, postrēmō apud Britannōs mortuus est, etiam eīs ipsīs invīsus quōs tantā perfidiā adiuvāre conātus erat.

castra, quae, etc.

1.

West

5.

natura: (-is,

M.)

ferreus

ductus erat 7.

ille

the

(less often)

capitis

The charge or penalty may be

scrlptas.

-um)

had been cf.

iron.

stretched.

proditio, -onis,

the verb prodo,

i.

12.

tried.

death.

note the case.

proditionis

p., betrayal',

cognita

to

chain. (-a,

16. i.e.

their

as quickly

in exercitu

qu5rum army.

expressed, as here, by the genitive. 17. manu: abl. of means with

4.

and in

celerrime

quam

as possible.

i.e. qu5 + que, quoque and into which ; for quo, cf. the note on p. 8, 1. 14. note the gender. 3. omnia: ad for.

funis

14.

namely,

Point.

2.

1.

in castra

miser: he, poor fellow.

19.

cum

waging.

gessisset: after suos: observe the em.

.

phatic position

.

(cf.

the

p. n, 1. 6). 21. eis ipsis: dat.

note on

suum,

strue with invisus.

case; con-