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friend here, if you had arrived two hours ago. ii. You seem
able to show courage whenever there is need. 12. Your army
needs action, not deliberation. 13. If you should be allowed
to go to Rome to-morrow, what would you do there? 14. You
can send him a letter by one of these messengers if there is
need of haste. 15. You may dispose your troops as you please;
but try to place them to the advantage of the republic.
 

16. But start as soon as you can and march to the bank of
the Rhine: pitch camp there in a suitable place and wait three
days: then, starting at dawn every day, advance twenty miles
from where you halted the day before.

I. Ne . . . non is used if the verb of fear is negative, or if the
negative in the dependent clause emphasizes a particular word.
 

LESSON  XXXIII

CORRELATION

iy6. Groups of words presenting the same idea in different
relations are called correlatives. Thus the size or quantity
idea may be presented interrogatively, how great? indefinitely,
rather great; demonstratively, so great; relatively, as' great as;
and as a relative indefinite, however great. These ideas are
expressed in Latin by words from the same root, varying in
prefix and sufiix. Thus the correlatives of the size idea, as
presented above, are quantus? aliquantus; tantus; quantus;
quantuscumque.

177. The clause following a demonstrative correlative, of
whatever meaning, is introduced in English simply by as; in
Latin it must be introduced by a relative word of kindred mean¬
ing.   The Latin cannot say simply my house is as large as yours;