EVERY Simple Sentence is either:—I. A Statement; as Psittacus loquitur, The parrot speaks.
II. A Command or Request; as Loquere, psittace. Speak, parrot.
III. A Question; as Loquiturne psittacus? Does the parrot speak?
- n1-1. apud—'at the court of.'
- n1-2 Corinth—a town on the isthmus which separates Northern Greece from the Peloponnesus (island of Pelops).—Lat. Prim. § 101.
- n1-3 ingentibus opibus comparatis.—Lat. Prim. § 125.
- n1-4 Tarentum—now Taranto, the largest Greek city in Italy, on the gulf of the same name.—Lat. Prim. § 121, c.
- n2-1 oblata—from offero.
3. redactus—from redigo.
mediam navem—'the middle of the ship;' so with other adjectives of position, as, summus mons—'the top of the mountain.'
4. Taenarum—now Cape Matapan, the most southern promontory of Greece.
delatus—from defero.
5. multam pecuniae—lit. 'much of money.'—Lat. Prim. § 131.
6. Massagetae—a wandering tribe in Central Asia.
Scythae—a people of S.-E. Europe.
simili Scytharum—short for 'like those of the S.'
Utor.—Lat. Prim. § 119, a.
Ex equis—'on horseback.'
ad omnia—'for everything.'
cocta—from coquo.
7. quisque ... sepeliunt—'They bury ... each in his own.'
8. ungulis bovinis—'with the hoofs of an ox.'—Lat. Prim. § 115.
magnitudine.—Lat. Prim. § 116.
9. The phoenix was said to live five hundred years, and then to kill itself by fire, its ashes producing a young one.
ex intervallo—'after an interval'
aliorum ... aliorum—of some ... of others.—See 91. note.
circumlitum—from circumlino.
10. magni—'at a high price.'—Lat. Prim. § 128, a.
