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Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader by Unknown
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42. 5. dormit. See the note on _fugit_, 4, 25.

12. aliqui. Learn from the vocabulary the difference between _aliquis_
and _aliqui_.

maturandum sibi, 'they ought to hasten,' more literally 'haste ought to
be made by them'; maturandum (_esse_) is the impersonal passive, and sibi
the so-called dative of the agent. With the gerundive the person who has
the thing to do is regularly expressed in the dative.

16. mirati. See the note on 25, 27.

20. dis. See the note on 38, 17.

21. evenisset. See the note on _accepissent_, 26, 21.

23. vigilia. The Romans divided the day from sunrise to sunset into
twelve hours (_horae_), the night from sunset to sunrise into four
watches (_vigiliae_).

24. neque enim. See the note on 7, 12.

25. inimico animo, ablative of description.

43. 2. hoc dolore, 'this anger,' _i.e_. 'anger at this.'

Navem longam, 'war-galley,' 'man-of-war.' The adjective contrasts the
shape of the man-of-war with that of the merchantman.

4. fugientis, used as a noun, 'the fugitives.'
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