CATŌNIS

Verba

The new words of this chapter, as the book glosses them. Keep them, and they come back for review just before you would forget them.

• dux, ducis (m)quī exercitum ducit
• mīles, mīlitis (m)vir quī in bellō pugnat
• pāreō -ēreoboediō, obtempero
• Hispānia -ae (f)terra in Eurōpā
• vincō -eresuperō, praevalēre
• cōgitō -ārementis actiō, putāre
• oppidum -ī (n)urbs parva
• mūrus -ī (m)saxa quae oppidum defendunt
• circumdō -arecingere, circā ponere
• dēfendō -ereprotegō, tuēri
• timeō -ērepavidus sum, metuō
• sineabsque
• cōnsilium -ī (n)cōgitātiō, propositum
• epistula -ae (f)litterae scriptae
• scrībō -erelitterās facere
• iubeō -ēreimperō, mandō
• dēstruō -eredīruō, dēmolior
• oppugnō -āreaggredior, impugnō
• nūntius -ī (m)quī nūntiat vel portat
• eōdem diēin diē ipsō, simul
• legō -ereoculīs perlustrō
• īrātus -a -uminfēnsus, offēnsus
• nesciō -īreignōrō, nōn sciō
• sī...scīvissentcondiciōnālis irreālis
• in praeteritō
• simulūnā, coniūnctim

Lege

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Pēnsum

Grammatica

Accusative plural as direct object

Marcus multās epistulās scrībit

The direct object of a verb is in the accusative case. Here epistulās is accusative plural, with the ending -ās, and it shows what Marcus writes.