Identifier: opendoortocsar00caes (find matches)
Title: An open door to Cæsar
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Caesar, Julius Cannon, Harrison Dickinson, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Latin language
Publisher: New York, Hinds and Noble
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rgo, because of ; instar, like ; pridie, the day be-fore ; postridie, the day after ; tenus, as far as. Authorities differ in the technical assignment of this geni-tive ; some call it simply subjective, others partitive.Logically neither seems wholly satisfactory. 103. The Adjectival Partitive. Superlatives and some com-paratives of adjectives expressing the idea of order, rank, orsuccession, also medius, ceterus, and reliquus, mean not whatobject, but what part of it. prima nocte, in the first part of the night. RULES OF SYNTAX 99 104. Logical Agreement of the Verb. Sometimes the verbagrees not with its grammatical subject, but with the subjectappositive or a predicate noun, serving as the logical subject. summa omnium fuerunt, they were in all. 105. The Adjectival Participle. The participle is often theequivalent of a subordinate clause or phrase, expressing time,cause, condition, concession, manner, and means. damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, if condemned, hemust suffer punishment.
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Pons a Caesare hi Rheno factus LofC.< NOTES Being Mainly Geographical and Historical Caesaris commentarii is the proper title of the complete accountof Caesars campaigns as proconsul of Gaul, from the spring of 58B.C., when on his arrival he began his operations against the Hel-vetii, to 52 B.C., when he won his memorable victory over Gaul,united under the intrepid Vercingetorix, the greatest of the Gauls,the first national hero of France. These seven campaigns werewritten by Caesar himself, and the account is popularly called theM seven books of the Gallic war. Each book is a concise chron-icle of one year. The short interim, from the fall of the town ofAlesia in 52, when, as Plutarch says, Vercingetorix came out ofthe gate, threw off his armor, and sat quietly at Caesars feet, to thelast futile rally of the Gauls in the southwest, is narrated in theeighth and final book by one of Caesars officers and friends, HirtiusPansa. As present and indubitable testimony of the fact of these

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