omnes hos fortissime sustinuit. 4. Barbari nihilo fortiores erant
quam Romani. 5. Primo barbari esse superiores videbantur, tum Romani
acrius contenderunt. 6. Denique, ubi iam diutissime paene aequo proelio
pugnatum est, barbari fugam petierunt. 7. Quaedam Germanorum gentes,
simul atque rumorem illius calamitatis audiverunt, sese in ultimis
regionibus finium suorum abdiderunt. 8. Romani saepius quam hostes
vicerunt, quod meliora arma habebant. 9. Inter omnis gentis Romani
plurimum valebant. 10. Hae cohortes simul atque in aequiorem regionem
se receperunt, castra sine ulla difficultate posuerunt.

II. 1. Some nations are easily overcome by their enemies. 2. Germany is
much larger than Gaul. 3. Were not the Romans the most powerful among
the tribes of Italy? 4. On account of (his) wounds the soldier dragged
his body from the ditch with the greatest difficulty. 5. He was able
neither to run nor to fight. 6. Who saved him? A certain horseman boldly
undertook the matter. 7. The rumors concerning the soldier's death were
not true.

[Footnote 2: /ille\ standing after its noun means _that well-known,
that famous_.]

LESSON LVIII

NUMERALS : THE PARTITIVE GENITIVE

[Special Vocabulary]

/commea:tus, -u:s\, m.. _provisions_
/la:titu:do:, -inis\, f., _width_ (latitude)
/longitu:do:, -inis\, f., _length_ (longitude)
/magnitu:do:, -inis\, f., _size, magnitude_
/merca:tor, merca:to:ris\, m., _trader, merchant_
/mu:ni:tio:, -o:nis\, f., _fortification_ (munition)
/spatium, spati:\, n., _room, space, distance; time_

/cogno:sco:, cogno:scere, cogno:vi:, cognitus\, _learn_;
in the perfect tenses, _know_ (re-cognize)
/co:go:, co:gere, coe:gi:, coa:ctus\, _collect; compel_ (cogent)
/de:fendo:, de:fendere, de:fendi:, de:fe:nsus\, _defend_
/incendo:, incendere, incendi:, ince:nsus\, _set fire to, burn_
(incendiary). Cf. /cremo:\
/obtineo:, obtine:re, obtinui:, obtentus\, _possess, occupy, hold_
(obtain)
/pervenio:, perveni:re, perve:ni:, perventus\, _come through, arrive_

_327._ The Latin numeral adjectives may be classified as follows:

1. /Cardinal Numerals\, answering the question _how many?_ as,
/u:nus\, _one_; /duo\, _two_; etc.

2. /Ordinal Numerals\, derived in most cases from the cardinals and
answering the question _in what order?_ as, /pri:mus\, _first_;
/secundus\, _second_; etc.

3. /Distributive Numerals\, answering the question _how many at a
t