Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader by Kirtland, John

Paucos annos. See the note on 3, 20.

20. omnis. What does the quantity of the _i_ tell you about the form?

7. 1. quod, not the relative pronoun, but a conjunction.

3. eo, the adverb.

in atrium. Although inrupit means 'burst _into_,' the preposition is nevertheless required with the noun to express the place into which he burst.

6. ille. See the note on _Perseus_, 4, 4.

8. Acrisi. In Nepos, Caesar, Cicero, and Vergil, the genitive singular of second-declension nouns in _-ius_ and _-ium_ ends in _i_, not _ii_; but the nominative plural ends in _ii_, and the dative and ablative plural in _iis_.

10. istud. Remember that _iste_ is commonly used of something connected with the person addressed. Here the meaning may be 'that oracle I told you of.' See 3, 4.

12. Larisam. See the note on 3, 12.

neque enim, 'for ... not,' as if simply _non enim_, but Latin uses _neque_ to connect the clauses.

14. in omnis partis, 'in all directions' or 'in every direction.'

15. Multi. See the note on _omnium_, 5, 6.

17. discorum. The discus was a round, flat piece of stone or metal, and the athletes tried to see who could throw it farthest.

18. casu. This is one of the ablatives of manner that do not take _cum_.

19. stabat. Notice the tense.

HERCULES

9. 2. omnium hominum. This means 'all men' in the sense of 'all mankind.'

3. oderat. _Odi_ is perfect in form, but present in meaning; and the pluperfect has in like manner the force of an imperfect. 5. media nocte, 'in the middle of the night,' 'in the dead of night.'

7. Nec tamen, 'not ... however.' See the note on _neque enim,_ 7, 12.

8. movebant. Contrast this tense with appropinquaverant and excitati sunt.

13. Tali modo = _hoc modo_, 4, 20.

20. a puero, 'from a boy,' 'from boyhood.'

exercebat, the imperfect of customary action, as is also consumebat.

24. autem. See the note on 5, 8.

25. arti, dative of indirect object with the intransitive verb studebat.

10. 2. omnibus viribus, 'with all his might,' ablative of manner.

3. e vita. Notice that the preposition denoting separation appears both with the noun and in the verb. Compare _in atrium inrupit_, 7, 3.

4. neque quisquam, 'and not any one,' _i.e_. 'and no one.' _Quisquam_ is used chiefly in negative sentences.

5. voluit, 'was willing.'

7. facit. See the note on 4, 25.

8. nomine. See the note on 5, 8.

9. vir crudelissimus, not 'cruelest man,' but 'most cruel man.' The superlative is often thus used to denote simply a high degree of the quality.

consueverat. Inceptive verbs end in _sco_ and denote the beginning of an action or state. The perfect and pluperfect of such verbs often represent the state of things resulting from the completion of the action, and are then to be translated as present and imperfect respectively. So _consuesco_ = 'I am becoming accustomed,' _consuevi_ = 'I have become accustomed' or 'am accustomed,' _consueveram_ = 'I had become accustomed' or 'was accustomed.'

11. sacrificio, 'for the sacrifice,' dative of purpose.

ea. Why is dies feminine here? See the note on _certam_, 5, 13.

12. omnia. See the note on 5, 13.

15. capitibus, dative of indirect object after the compound verb _(in + pono)_.