Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader by Unknown
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the interrogative pronoun is equivalent to an indefinite pronoun.
19. oraculum. Read again the description beginning at the bottom of page 11. 21. quis. See the note on 30, 3. Post paucis annis, 'a few years later,' literally 'later by a few years.' Post is here an adverb, and paucis annis ablative of degree of difference. The expression is equivalent to _post paucos annos_. 22. accidit. See the note on 30, 1. facturus, 'intending to make.' The future participle with a form of _sum_ is used to express an intended or future action. This is called the active periphrastic conjugation. 23. certam. See the note on 5, 13. 24. Die constituta, ablative of time. 26. a pueritia. Compare _a puero_, 9, 20. 34. 2. transeundo flumine. See the note on _sui ulciscendi_, 30, 16. nescio quo. See the note on 33. 14. 4. uno pede nudo, 'with one foot bare,' the ablative absolute. This construction consists of two parts, a noun, or pronoun corresponding to the subject of a clause, and a participle corresponding to the verb of a |
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