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-