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Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader by Unknown
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22. ad se. Compare this construction with the use of the dative in 4, 2.
Notice that se does not refer to Herculem, the subject of referre, but to
Eurystheus, the subject of Iussit. When the reflexive thus refers to the
subject of the principal verb rather than to the subject of the
subordinate verb with which it s directly connected, it is called
indirect.

23. tantae audaciae. The genitive of description, like the ablative of
description, consists always of a noun with some modifying word. Compare
_specie horribili_, 4, 14.

autem. Compare 5, 8 and 10, 21.

24. incredibili celeritate, ablative of description.

25. vestigiis, ablative of means.

26. ipsum, contrasts cervum with vestigiis.

27. omnibus viribus. See the note on 10, 2.

14. 1. currebat, 'he kept running.'

sibi, dative of reference. It need not be translated,

ad quietem, 'for rest.' Purpose is frequently thus expressed by _ad_.

3. cucurrerat. The pluperfect is sometimes used with postquam when the
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