a erat
Cornelia et bonam disciplinam maxime amabat.

NOTE. Can you translate the paragraph above? There are no new words.

[Footnote 2: Observe that all the imperfects denote continued or
progressive action, or describe a state of affairs. (Cf. Sec. 134.)]

LESSON XXIII

PRESENT ACTIVE INDICATIVE OF _REGO:_ AND _AUDIO:_

_147._ As we learned in Sec. 126, the present stem of the third
conjugation ends in -e, and of the fourth in -i:. The inflection
of the Present Indicative is as follows:

CONJUGATION III CONJUGATION IV
re'go:, re'gere (_rule_) au'dio, audi:'re (_hear_)
PRES. STEM rege- PRES. STEM audi:-

SINGULAR
1. re'go:, _I rule_ au'dio:, _I hear_
2. re'gis, _you rule_ au'di:s, _you hear_
3. re'git, _he (she, it) rules_ au'dit, _he (she, it) hears_

PLURAL
1. re'gimus, _we rule_ audi:'mus, _we hear_
2. re'gitis, _you rule_ audi:'tis, _you hear_
3. re'gunt, _they rule_ au'diunt, _they hear_

1. The personal endings are the same as before.

2. The final short -e- of the stem rege- combines with the -o: in
the first person, becomes -u- in the third person plural, and
becomes -i- elsewhere. The inflection is like that of /ero:\, the
future of /sum\.

3. In /audio:\ the personal endings are added regularly to the stem
audi:-. In the third person plural -u- is inserted between the stem
and the personal ending, as /audi-u-nt\. Note that the long vowel of
the stem is shortened before final -t just as in /amo\ and /moneo\.
(Cf. Sec. 12.2.)

Note that -i- is always short in the third conjugation and long in
the fourth, excepting where long vowels are regularly shortened. (Cf.
Sec. 12.1, 2.)

_148._ Like /rego\ and /audio\ inflect the present active indicative of
the following verbs:

INDICATIVE PRESENT INFINITIVE PRESENT

ago:, _I drive_ agere, _to drive_
di:co:, _I say_ di:cere, _to say_
du:co:, _I lead_ du:cere, _to lead_
mitto:, _I send_ mittere, _to send_
mu:nio:, _I fortify_ mu:ni:re, _to fortify_
reperio:, _I find_ reperi:re, _to find_
venio:, _I come_ veni:re, _to come_

_149._ EXERCISES

I. 1. Quis agit? Cur venit? Quem mittit? Quem ducis? 2. Quid mittunt? Ad
quem veniunt? Cuius castra muniunt? 3. Quem agunt? Venimus. Quid puer
reperit? 4. Quem mittimus? Cuius equum ducitis? Quid dicunt? 5. Munimus,