11. mures bipedes—probably the jerboa, which makes very little use of its forelegs, which are very small.
singulis cornibus—'with one horn apiece.'
denique—'in a word.'
12. in sicco—'on dry land.'
ex minimo fit maximum—'from being very small becomes very large.'
ovis—Lat. Prim. § 124.
13. aliis—'to,' i.e. 'are considered sacred by.'
Thebae—the capital of Upper Egypt.
Moeris, idis—a lake in Middle Egypt.
14. amicti—from amicio.
15. varii coloris.—Lat. Prim. § 128.
16. Lydia—a country in the south-west of Asia Minor. domi—'at home.' An old case called the locative.
17. Sardes, ium—the capital of Lydia.
18. Adrasto—the dative.—Lat. Prim. § 109.
19. Mt. Olympus, in Mysia, a country in Asia Minor.
exstitit—from exsisto.
21. ne feceritis—'do not make.' If there were no ne, the verb would be in the Imperative. Always use the Perfect Subjunctive in commands with a negative, if it be the second person.
vobiscum.—Cum is written after me, te, se, nobis, vobis, quo, qua, quibus.
22. tandem—after interrogatives gives sense of impatience, as 'who, I pray,' 'who on earth.'
23. mi—vocative of mens.
Filius, genius, and proper names in ius make vocative in i.
24. quaeve.—ve, que, nd, are always written after the word to which they are joined.
25. venatum—the supine in um.—Lat. Prim. § 141, 5.
26. sis—'be.' The present conj. is often used instead of the imperative.
custode me—'under my guardianship.'—Lat. Prim. § 125, a.
28. ignosco tibi.—Lat. Prim. § 106, 3.
duos annos, Lat. Prim. § 102, 1.
29. pro esca—'as a bait.'
porcellum.—Diminutives end in ulus, olus, ellus, culus, with fem. and neut. forms ending in a and um.
30. Sestos—a town in Thrace, situated at the narrowest part of the Hellespont.
Xerxes—king of Persia, who made an expedition against the Greeks, B.C. 480.
Elaeus, untis—a town in Thrace.
In Latin, verbs of taking away often have the person from whom the thing is taken in the dative.