Cornelius Nepos, with Answered Questions and Imitative Exercises by Thomas Kerchever Arnold

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...si non paulo, at aliquanto. It is less than multo, more than paulo. 7.-dicentissimus, -ficentissimus. 8. Nescio quo casu, Milt. 7, 3: nescio quo pacta. 9. Tuscifere omnes consciverant hellum. Liv. 10, 18,1. 10. In this sense the perf. has the meaning of the present. 2 1. Amplius relates to compass and extension; plus to number and quantity magis to quality; potius to preference. See Pr. Intr. ii. 427-431. 2. A suitable magnificence: thus Atticus was, in his mode of living, s plendidus, non sumtuosus. Att. 13, 5. 3 The grave and dignified demeanor. 3 1. It is a constructio ad synesim (i. e. according to the meaning, not according to the words actually used). It refers to Thebani, implied in Thebas. 2. La c on i c en populatus, classem eorum fugavil. Timoth. 2, 1. 3. Ingenium Baoticum. Baotica sus. Bmotum in crasso jurares acre natum. Hor. Ep. 2, 1,244. 4. Pindar. 4 2. Est might have been used, if the historian had chosen to make the statement his own. i On the order of words, see Pans. 3, 1J 1. EXERCISE. Alcibiades among the Lacedaemonians so entirely gave himself up to a hard way of life, that nobody could equal him in the frugality of his diet and dress. Among the Thebans the highest commendation is to cultivate bodily strength. Whatever people Alcibiades is living with, he will be reckoned the first among them. Alcibiades is highly extolled by the great historian Thucydides, but very many writers have given him a bad character. THRASYBULUS. Ch. 1. 1 1. What is the force of dubito an?--2. What is the rule for translating 'I doubt whether' into Latin, when it is equivalent to a doubtfully expressed affirmation?--3. On what is this rule founded 1--4. Express (a) ' I am inclined to think he will come' by 'I doubt' in English and Latin.--(b)...