clause. A predicate noun or adjective may take the place of the
participle. In the latter case the use of the participle 'being' will
show the two parts in the relation of subject and predicate, 'one foot
being bare.'

34.6. demonstravisset, subjunctive because subordinate in indirect
discourse. See the note on 33, 10. Pelias thought, _Hic est homo quem
oraculum demonstravit_.

9. vellus aureum. Phrixus and his sister Helle were about to be put to
death, when they were rescued by a ram with fleece of gold, who carried
them off through the air. Helle fell from the ram's back into the strait
that separates Europe and Asia, called after her the Hellespont, 'Helle's
sea,' and known to us as the Dardanelles. Phrixus came safely to Colchis,
and here he sacrificed the ram and gave the fleece to Aeetes. Read Mr.
D.O.S. Lowell's _Jason's Quest_.

11. ut ... potiretur. See the note on 27, 6.

hoc vellere. _Potior_ takes the same construction as _vescor_, for which
see the note on 16, 19.

16. iter, accusative of extent.

20. usui, dative of purpose. We say 'of use' or 'useful.'

24. operi dative after the compound with _prae_. Notice that not all
verbs compounded with prepositions govern the dative. Many compounds of
_ad, ante, com_ (for _cum_), _in, inter, ob, post, prae, pro, sub_, and
_super_ do have the dative, and some compounds of _circum_. You will find