Mitchell, Benjamin W. The writing of narrative Latin

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PRONOUNS                                        47

8. Inform us of what those scouts tell you about the enemy's
march. 9. We shall start to-morrow by the same route ^ Caesar
went yesterday. 10. Meanwhile we shall adopt this plan, which
seems to be the best of all that have been proposed here.
II. General,^ break camp before dawn; this will be greatly to
the advantage of the army, for we can capture that town more
quickly. 12. I haven't yet received the letter you sent me
about that plan of yours. 13. I have just been informed of the
surrender of the camp, which was a strongly-fortified place.
14. This is the very army that so bravely stormed the town and
fortifications which the enemy's troops occupied. 15. The
Gauls were besieging Caesar's winter quarters and fortifications,
which he had himself placed on the bank of the river. 16. The
camp I fortified here has been seized by the Gauls; these I
shall attack and put to flight.

I. * of whom.' 2. Imperative strengthened by personal pronoun.
3. See 45, /. 4. ^ by which things '; cf. 12, Syn. 15. 5. per w. ace.
6. 45, d.    7. 45, e andi.    8. A vocative case seldom begins a clause.
 

LESSON  IX

PRONOUNS  (Continued)

48.   The interrogative words who? which? what? are used
both as true pronouns and as pronominal adjectives.

Who could have permitted this to be taken from them? id iis eripi
quis pati posset ? what result will Cottars plan have? Cottae quidem
consilium quern habebit exitum?

49.   Indefinite pronouns, some, any, certain, each, etc., exist in
great variety in Latin.

a. The most general word for some, any, denoting some per¬
son or thing whose identity is entirely unknown, is aliquis ; but
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