patriae et sociorum. Verbs of remembering and forgetting take the
genitive or the accusative, but _obliviscor_ prefers the former.

4. cibo. See the note on 16, 19.

5. hora septima. See the note on 42, 23.

11. docuerunt. See the note on 4, 26.

51. 6. tantum, the adverb.

23. se, 'they,' _i.e_. himself and his companions.

praedandi causa, 'to steal.' Purpose is frequently thus expressed by
_causa_ with the genitive of the gerund or gerundive. What other ways of
expressing purpose have you met in your reading?

24. a Troia. The preposition is sometimes used with names of towns, with
the meaning 'from the direction of' or 'from the neighborhood of.'

25. esse. It will help you to understand indirect discourse if you will
try to discover what words would be used to express the idea in the
direct form. Here, for instance, the exact words of Ulysses would have
been in Latin: _Neque mercatores sumus neque praedandi causa venimus; sed
a Troia redeuntes vi tempestatum a recto cursu depulsi sumus_.

27. ubi ... essent. The question of Polyphemus was _Ubi est navis qua
vecti estis_?