Livy. Books I, XXI, and XXII Volume 1; Bk. 21 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...For this figure cf. p. 7, 11. 4, 5, and p. 13, 1. 24. 14. in Macedonian : where he founded the city of Aenca on the peninsula of Pallene. 15. in Siciliam: to ligesta. 16. tenuisae: sc. cursum or some similar word as direct object. This infinitive clause is subject of constat, 1. 1. Laureutem agrum: a strip of the Latin, coast from the Tiber southward to Lavinium, -the vicinity of Laurentum. Trcia: the ordinary construction would make this a dative. Cf. Troiano, above, I. 12; the position is emphatic. 17. ut quibufl... superesset: a causal relative clause. A. 320, e; H. 517, 3, 1); G. 627, R., 636. 18. inmenao: 'unmeasured, infinite;' Milton says: "Of amplitude almost immense." 20. Aborigines: (ab, origine), yet the Siculi are spoken of as earlier inhabitants, a branch of the great Latin stock, found later in Southwestern Italy and in Sicily. 23. adfinltatem: connection by marriage, while blood-relationship is consanguinitas. Page 4. 1. sign a osnerent: signa is nominative: 'the signals (i. e. the trumpets) sounded.' 3. perounotatum: as well as admiratum, 1. 9, perfect participle (not infinitive), agreeing with the subject of sanxisse, 1. n. 4. mortales: poetic for homines. 6. postquam audierit: a subordinate clause of oratio obliqua requires its verb in the subjunctive. A. 336; H. 524; G. 653., Moritz M tiller remarks that postquam oftener takes the perfect than the imperfect or pluperfect subjunctive in oratio obliqua, when depending on a perfect infinitive. Cf. p. ill, 1. 17, transient. 7. cremata patria: this ablative absolute expresses both the time and cause of their emigration, patria, 'native city.' 9. vel: (volo); i.e. 'whichever you please, ' expresses the utmost freedom of choice between alternatives. 11-foedus lotum: idum because the making...