Monday, April 22, 2024

30.03.24: practice with the 3rd declension; getting started

Before we do a bit of practice with the case endings, the last line of this quotation gets you started.

These plunderers of the world [the Romans], after exhausting the land by their devastations, are rifling the ocean: stimulated by avarice, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor; unsatiated by the East and by the West: the only people who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and ¦ where they make a desert, they call it peace. (Tacitus: Agricola)

Ubi sōlitūdin¦em faciunt pāc¦em appellant.

 




 

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