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KEY TO EXERCISES IN LESSONS IN LATIN. XXXVI. 

 EXBBCISE 133. LATIN-ENOLISH. 



1. Minerva taught Cicero all arts. 2. The mingled earnestness of 

 modesty is greatly to bo udmirod. 3. So many times have I been occu- 

 pied, and with such important business, that I am unable (tiuit it is not 

 (<> me) to breathe fsvoly. 4. Know you not how many toils, 

 how many dangers, how many miseries the soldiers have sustained on 

 their way f 5. If virtue has restrained you from bad desires, your life 

 will be happy. 6. Cicero having been told all things by the ambas- 

 sadors, ordered the praetors to seize the Allobroges on the bridge. 7. 

 Let not their minds mingle with the vices of men. 8. The ascent to 

 heaven is easy to the good. 9. The less minds have mingled with and 

 attached themselves to the errors and vices of men, the easier to them 

 will be the ascent to heaven. 10. The nature of the mind is simple, 

 nor has it in it anything mixed. 11. We live on grapes dried in the 

 suii. 12. We have dried many grapes this season. 13. Cato was of 

 opinion that Carthage should bt destroyed. 14. Every fifth year all 

 Sicily was subjected to the census. 15. Two most powerful cities, 

 Carthage and Numantia, were destroyed by Scipio. 16. No forgetful- 

 ness has ever blotted out the fame of the Greeks and Eomans, nor ever 

 will blot it out. 17. God has filled the world with all good things, and 

 has mixed with it nothing bad. 



EXERCISE 134. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. Cicero a Minerva omnes artes edoctus est. 2. Cives sex templa 

 publice voverunt. 3. Templum Veneri dedicaverunt. 4. Mater in- 

 fantem fovet. 5. Mater semper liberos fovebit. 0. Uxores maritos 

 foverunt. 7. Milituin clades per urbem magnum ploratum movit. 8. 

 Nescio quot labores sustinueris. 9. Nescis quot labores sustiuuorim. 

 10. Pater te a vitio arcuit. 11. Age patri gratias, quum te a vitio 

 arcuerit. 12. Cave ne animus vitte solicitudinibus so admisceat. 13. 

 Magnum fovi in pectore meo amorem. 14. In meo pectore magnus 

 amor in te fotus est. 15. Quis hoc bellum movit P 16. Hostium ducea 

 hoc bellum moverunt. 17. Tua raens excita nunquam sedabitur. 18. 

 Delete hsec verba. 19. Historiam imperil ejus delevit. 20. Mala non 

 sunt facilia deletu. 21. Pater tuus vitium delendum esse consult. 



EXERCISE 135. LATIN-ENGLISH. 



1. Teach me how I may escape these things. 2. I did not receive 

 the letter which should inform me what you were doing. 3. I told 

 you your brother's reason. 4. The judge must be informed of the 

 cause of the affair. 5. His father informs the judges concerning tho 

 injuries of Augustus. 6. Your uncle will instruct you about your 

 journey. 7. It is fit and pleasant to teach those desirous of learning. 

 8. I envy your master who for so large a fee has taught you to be wise 

 in nothing. 9. I teach many scholars the Latin language. 10. I must 

 be taught to speak Greek. 11. He taught my daughter to play on the 

 lyre. 12. They may teach him to ride a horse and to use weapons. 

 13. Will you teach me the Greek language ? 14. Teach these my sons 

 music. 15. Gladly will I teach you letters. 



EXERCISE 136. ENGLISH-LATIN. 



1. Doce me quo modo tibi prodesse possim. 2. Filiani tuatn gram 

 maticam docebunt. 3. Docui uxorem meam Latinam linguam loqui. 

 4. Me docent fidibus. 5. Latiuam linguam doctus est. 6. Doce cos 

 Gnece loqui. 7. A pater doctus multa sum. 8. Musicam a sorore mea 

 ilooentur. 9. Nescio quid te docenm de belli evento. 10. Latiiv.un 

 linguam doceudi sunt pueri. 11. Doctus sum Gnece loqui. 12. Multi 

 discipuli a me Latiuam liuguam docti suut. 



Fable. Tlie Mouse and the Kite. 



A kite, caught in a snare, besought a little mouse to set him free by 

 gnawing the meshes of the net (t/i meshes of the net Ifing gnawed) 

 Which being done, the liberated kite seized the mouse and devoured it 

 This fable shows what thanks the wicked are wont to give in return 

 for benefits. 



RECREATIVE NATURAL HISTORY. 



IIIK ANTCI.OI'ES. 



WE have already treated of three great families of ruminant*, 

 the ox, sheep, and deer,* and we miut now finwh our ac< 

 tills important ord;r of main mala by gome i. ante* 



Lopes. Them) resemble the ox and sheep in possessing perma- 

 nd h'lUmr horns, and tho deer in th.-ir form* and motions. 

 If numbers entitle animals to high consideration, then the 

 antelopes will occupy the first rank among ruminants. To a 

 native of Eur t turnout may at first seem questionable ; 



but a alight acquaintance with the work* of African and Asiatic 

 travellers will lead to the conviction that if a census of tho 

 ruminants could bo taken, the antelopes would outnumber all 

 tho ox, sheep, and goat families combined. These quadruped 

 armies give life to the far-stretching table-lands of Asia, and 

 cover the luxuriant plains of South Africa. Some species find 

 food in the sandy wilds of Thibet, and on the storm-swept 

 steppes of Mongolia; others make their homes in the deep 

 forests of northern India; while some delight in mountain 

 peaks and rocky solitudes. The great number of species into 

 which this extensive family is divided renders it impossible 

 in one short article to describe more than a few of the more 

 remarkable members of tho group. 



Europe can, at the utmost, reckon but two antelopes among 

 her ruminants, the chamois (Aniilope rupicapra) and the saiga 

 (Antilope coins). The name rupicapra (rock-goat), applied to 

 the former, suggests the difficulty which naturalists have felt 

 in classing this creature of the Alpine peaks. We will, however, 

 admit it among the antelopes, and this will give one species of 

 the family to Western Europe, leaving the saiga to the regions 

 of the Lower Danube and the hills of Caucasus. Neither 

 species can be deemed a good example of antelope form and 

 beauty, the rough coat of the chamois, and the heavy, sheep- 

 like body of the saiga, exhibiting little of elegance or grace. 

 But either animal may be taken as a good specimen of the won- 

 derful activity and amazing watchfulness which distinguish the 

 whole family. The skill of the keenest rifleman is often baffled 

 when tracking the chamois along the edge of the avalanche or 

 up the ice-covered peaks. Far off the daring animal stands, on 

 some projection of a rock where no hunter's foot can tread, or 

 bounds from crag to crag as if endowed with supernatural 

 energies. No finer specimen of brute skill and courage can be 

 witnessed in Europe. The muscular power by wliich the brave 

 creature balances itself on the narrow ledge of rock, and then 

 springs from this across a fathomless gulf to a mere shelf of 

 tho opposite precipice, may well excite the envy of the most 

 daring and best-trained hunters. The contest between human 

 power and animal energy is here seen in its highest forms. 



The saigas, or antelopes of Eastern Europe, are often seea 

 in flocks many thousands in number when making their autum- 

 nal migration from the barren plains of the north to the shel- 

 tered valleys of the south. Man keeps a sharp look-out for 

 their approach, and destroys vast multitudes, not for the sake 

 of venison, but to enrich himself by the sale of their horns and 

 skins. The belles of Europe and Asia wear ornamental combs 

 made from the transparent substance of the saiga's horn, while 

 tho skins may appear, as elegant gloves, in the shops of London 

 and Paris. Thus far this antelope may claim to be a promoter 

 of civilisation, and to share with tho tortoise the honour of 

 adorning beauty's head. 



The gazelle, or Dorcas antelope, has supplied Eastern poets 

 with many an image suggestive of honest praise or fulsome 

 flattery. The lover has won the Moorish lady's heart by send- 

 ing to her the message, ;< You have the eyes of a gazelle." Such, 

 brevity was to her mind the very soul of wit, and of its meaning 

 no damsel with even the smallest of hearts could donbt. The 

 beauty and speed of the gazelle did not escape the notice of the 

 ancient Hebrew poets and historians. The swiftness of the 

 warrior Asahel and of the Gaditesf is likened to that of the 

 gazelle, while in the Song of Solomon tho animal is taken as the 

 most expressive symbol of the beautiful.J Those antelopes are 

 as courageous as they are graceful. When attacked by the lion 

 of the Sahara, the males form themselves into a circle, with the 



See Vol. III., pp. 273, 344, 401. 

 t 2 Sam. ii. 18, and 1 Chron. xii. 8. 



J Song of Sol. ii. 9, 17. The reader will bear in mind that the 

 1 roe " of these passages is the gazelle. 



