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more than you ought, and I am not afraid that you will not
obtain your request. 15. You ought not to delay until all the
crops of your allies are destroyed: attack the advancing
enemy at once. 16. Don't try to leave us here alone in the
midst of the enemy, for we're not going to stay: we're going
to follow you.

I. Arrange to form a relative clause of purpose. 2. Devise a
phrase for this: a pack train, of course, consists of horses or mules
carrying packs. 3. ^I propose'; what is the real meaning?
4.  quod;   117, a, i.    5.   122, b, 2.
 

LESSON   XXXII

SPECIAL IDIOMS IN VERB   CONSTRUCTION (Continued)

171.   Permission.

Expressions of permission, you may, it is allowed, it is per¬
mitted, etc., are regularly translated by the impersonal verb
licet with the dative of the person to whom the permission is
given and the infinitive of the act permitted. The person
granting the permission is expressed by per with the accusative.
The noun permission, so frequent in English, is not used in
Latin: thus, to ask permission is to ask that it be permitted; to
grant permission is either to permit (patior) or to grant that one
may ; such a phrase as you have my permission is rendered it is
permitted to you through me.

They asked permission to call a council, petierunt ut sibi concilium
indicere liceret;  if you should permit, si patiaris or si per te liceat.

172.   Ability.

Expressions of ability, am able, can, are translated by possum
with the infinitive.

Nor, crowded as they were, could they avoid the spears, neque tela
conferti vitare poterant.