Latin Primer

alter, altera, alterum, the other. parātus, a, um, ready, prepared.

ADJECTIVES. I.

Decline annus and somnus like equus; poculum like donum (Lesson 12); uva and gemma, like puella (Lesson 11). Learn the declension of bonus, solus, miser, ater, Table 3.

64. Almost all Adjectives, and all Participles, ending in us, are declined like bonus. These are called Adjectives of the First and Second Declension.

65. These six-alius, other (N. aliud), nullus, no one, solus, only, totus, whole, ullus, any, unus, one — - have the genitive singular in ius, and the dative in i, in all the genders; also, alter, other, uter, either, neuter, neither.

66. An Adjective is put in the same Gender, Number, and Case as the noun it belongs to. This is called AGREEMENT. XI. Joseph in Prison.

Paucos post annos, Joséphus, accusátus ab uxóre

Putípharis heri sui, conjectus-est in 50 carcerem.

mæstitiæ vestræ? narráte mıhı 34 somnia vestra.”

Tum prior sic expósuit somnium: "Vidi in somno

I-pressed

cup

Pharaonis, ei-que porrexi." Bono sis animo ” 41 in

held-out

courage

quit Joséphus; "post tres dies Pharao te restítuet in

will-restore

gradum prístinum; rogo ut tunc memíneris mei.”

rank

remember

Alter quoque narravit somnium: "Gestábam in

was-carrying on

cápite tria canistra, in quibus erant liba, quália

volitabant,21 et liba ista comedébant." Cui Jose

flew 1

ate

phus: "Hæc est interpretatio istíus somnii: tria

meaning

canistra sunt tres dies; quibus elapsis, Pharao te

being-spent

fériet secúri,41 et aves carne 42 tuâ vescentur."

will-feed

Die 42 tértio, qui dies natális Pharaonis erat,

narum oblitus-est Josephi,39 nec ejus in se mériti 39

forgot

postea recordatus-est.

nor

service

remembered

Learn the Conjugation of amo (Table 7).

67. The endings of the Present, Imperfect, and Future, of the Active and Passive Voice, are these:

ACTIVE.

SINGULAR.

1st Person. o or m

2d Person. s (as, es, is) tis

3d Person. t (at, et, it) nt

mini

ntur

The vowel before the ending is called the Connecting Vowel: it may be a, e, or i; but in the third person plural i is changed to u. These endings are seen in the following examples:

amat patrem, he loves his father; amātur a patre, he is loved by

his father.

urbem regit, he rules the city; urbs regitur, the city is ruled. fruges sumunt, they take the crops; fruges sumuntur, the crops are taken.

68. For the Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future-Perfect, Passive, the tenses of esse, to be, are used, with a Participle ending in tus or sus (64); as,

amatus est, he was loved; jussi sunt, they were ordered.

amata erat, she had been loved; capti erimus, we shall have been

taken; fixum est, it was fixed (x=cs).

69. Many verbs which are active in English have, in Latin, the form of passive verbs, and are called Deponents; as, sequitur, he follows; nascitur, it grows.

Several deponents have their object in the ablative; as, fungor officio, I perform my duty; vescitur carne, he feeds on flesh.

XII.

Pharaoh's Dreams.

Post biennium, rex ipse 56 habuit sómnium.

two-years

had

Videbatur sibi adstare Nilo 36 flúmini; et ecce 33