I. What mood might be used ? Cf. sec. 804. 2. Latin, "so great"
3. adesse. 4. sic

LESSON LV

258. miOMS AND PHRASES

ut ilia omittam. to omit the following,

memoria tenere. to remember,

Bignum coUocandnm locire. to let a contract for setting up

a statue.
For Written Translation — Chapter 8

259. You surely remember that at the time when the
gilded statue of Romulus was struck by lightning the
soothsayers, who had assembled from all Etruria, said that
unless the gods should be appeased in every way, civil war
and the downfall of the city were impending. And so, to
omit ^all the other things which were done at that time to
appease the gods, you remember that the consuls of that
year let a contract for setting up a larger statue of Jove ; for
the soothsayers had said that they hoped that if that statue



^6 LATIN COMPOSITION — PART II

should be made and should ^face the east, the immortal
gods would by their "divine power move the very fates.
I. cetera. 2. Latin, "look towards," spectAre ad. 3. One word in
Latin.
LESSON LVI

260. PassiTe Apodoses in Indirect Discourse. — Ref . 86, Part I sec. 889-
See also Table, sec. 231.
261. IDIOMS AND PHRASES

mente capttu. demented^ insane,

aliquid alicui credere. to intrust something to some one»

For Oral Translation — Chapter 9

Translate the first three sentences first as they are, then after ddt,
then after dixit.
262. I. If any one should deny that this city is governed
by the power of the immortal gods, he would be insane.
2. If Roman citizens had planned the destruction of the
commonwealth, it would have seemed incredible to some.
