Latin+II

the readings due Monday have been copied after this week's assignment; You should take good notes, and outline, so you can "teach" another student tomorrow Monday night: read the Herodotus ethnography and write the little essay about Maldonia Wednesday night take the practice test. remember that if you bring questions to class, they will be answered, and if you don't, they won't XIII.--Throughout all Gaul there are two orders of those men who are of any rank and dignity: for the commonality is held almost in the condition of slaves, and dares to undertake nothing of itself and is admitted to no deliberation. The greater part, when they are pressed either by debt, or the large amount of their tributes, or the oppression of the more powerful, give themselves up in vassalage to the nobles, who possess over them the same rights without exception as masters over their slaves. But of these two orders, one is that of the Druids, the other that of the knights. The former are engaged in things sacred, conduct the public and the private sacrifices, and interpret all matters of religion. To these a large number of the young men resort for the purpose of instruction, and they [the Druids] are in great honour among them. For they determine respecting almost all controversies, public and private; and if any crime has been perpetrated, if murder has been committed, if there be any dispute about an inheritance, if any about boundaries, these same persons decide it; they decree rewards and punishments if any one, either in a private or public capacity, has not submitted to their decision, they interdict him from the sacrifices. This among them is the most heavy punishment. Those who have been thus interdicted are esteemed in the number of the impious and the criminal: all shun them, and avoid their society and conversation, lest they receive some evil from their contact; nor is justice administered to them when seeking it, nor is any dignity bestowed on them. Over all these Druids one presides, who possesses supreme authority among them. Upon his death, if any individual among the rest is pre-eminent in dignity, he succeeds; but, if there are many equal, the election is made by the suffrages of the Druids; sometimes they even contend for the presidency with arms. These assemble at a fixed period of the year in a consecrated place in the territories of the Carnutes, which is reckoned the central region of the whole of Gaul. Hither all, who have disputes, assemble from every part, and submit to their decrees and determinations. This institution is supposed to have been devised in Britain, and to have been brought over from it into Gaul; and now those who desire to gain a more accurate knowledge of that system generally proceed thither for the purpose of studying it. XIV.--The Druids do not go to war, nor pay tribute together with the rest; they have an exemption from military service and a dispensation in all matters. Induced by such great advantages, many embrace this profession of their own accord, and [many] are sent to it by their parents and relations. They are said there to learn by heart a great number of verses; accordingly some remain in the course of training twenty years. Nor do they regard it lawful to commit these to writing, though in almost all other matters, in their public and private transactions, they use Greek characters. That practice they seem to me to have adopted for two reasons; because they neither desire their doctrines to be divulged among the mass of the people, nor those who learn, to devote themselves the less to the efforts of memory, relying on writing; since it generally occurs to most men, that, in their dependence on writing, they relax their diligence in learning thoroughly, and their employment of the memory. They wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another, and they think that men by this tenet are in a great degree excited to valour, the fear of death being disregarded. They likewise discuss and impart to the youth many things respecting the stars and their motion, respecting the extent of the world and of our earth, respecting the nature of things, respecting the power and the majesty of the immortal gods. XV.--The other order is that of the knights. These, when there is occasion and any war occurs (which before Caesar's arrival was for the most part wont to happen every year, as either they on their part were inflicting injuries or repelling those which others inflicted on them), are all engaged in war. And those of them most distinguished by birth and resources, have the greatest number of vassals and dependants about them. They acknowledge this sort of influence and power only. XVI.--The nation of all the Gauls is extremely devoted to superstitious rites; and on that account they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices; because they think that unless the life of a man be offered for the life of a man, the mind of the immortal gods cannot be rendered propitious, and they have sacrifices of that kind ordained for national purposes. Others have figures of vast size, the limbs of which formed of osiers they fill with living men, which being set on fire, the men perish enveloped in the flames. They consider that the oblation of such as have been taken in theft, or in robbery, or any other offence, is more acceptable to the immortal gods; but when a supply of that class is wanting, they have recourse to the oblation of even the innocent.
 * Latin II June 4 - 8,** **2012**
 * Fourth quarter vocab is on this page (I apologize**
 * for repeats); subjunctive forms on the forms page.**
 * BOOK VI mYou will be assigned either 13 - 16 or 16 - 20**

XVII.--They worship as their divinity, Mercury in particular, and have many images of him, and regard him as the inventor of all arts, they consider him, the guide of their journeys and marches, and believe him to have very great influence over the acquisition of gain and mercantile transactions. Next to him they worship Apollo, and Mars, and Jupiter, and Minerva; respecting these deities they have for the most part the same belief as other nations: that Apollo averts diseases, that Minerva imparts the invention of manufactures, that Jupiter possesses the sovereignty of the heavenly powers; that Mars presides over wars. To him when they have determined to engage in battle, they commonly vow those things they shall take in war. When they have conquered, they sacrifice whatever captured animals may have survived the conflict, and collect the other things into one place. In many states you may see piles of these things heaped up in their consecrated spots; nor does it often happen that any one, disregarding the sanctity of the case, dares either to secrete in his house things captured, or take away those deposited; and the most severe punishment, with torture, has been established for such a deed. XVIII.--All the Gauls assert that they are descended from the god Dis, and say that this tradition has been handed down by the Druids. For that reason they compute the divisions of every season, not by the number of days, but of nights; they keep birthdays and the beginnings of months and years in such an order that the day follows the night. Among the other usages of their life, they differ in this from almost all other nations, that they do not permit their children to approach them openly until they are grown up so as to be able to bear the service of war; and they regard it as indecorous for a son of boyish age to stand in public in the presence of his father. XIX.--Whatever sums of money the husbands have received in the name of dowry from their wives, making an estimate of it, they add the same amount out of their own estates. An account is kept of all this money conjointly, and the profits are laid by: whichever of them shall have survived [the other], to that one the portion of both reverts, together with the profits of the previous time. Husbands have power of life and death over their wives as well as over their children: and when the father of a family, born in a more than commonly distinguished rank, has died, his relations assemble, and, if the circumstances of his death are suspicious, hold an investigation upon the wives in the manner adopted towards slaves; and if proof be obtained, put them to severe torture, and kill them. Their funerals, considering the state of civilization among the Gauls, are magnificent and costly; and they cast into the fire all things, including living creatures, which they suppose to have been dear to them when alive; and, a little before this period, slaves and dependants, who were ascertained to have been beloved by them, were, after the regular funeral rites were completed, burnt together with them. XX.--Those states which are considered to conduct their commonwealth more judiciously, have it ordained by their laws, that, if any person shall have heard by rumour and report from his neighbours anything concerning the commonwealth, he shall convey it to the magistrate and not impart it to any other; because it has been discovered that inconsiderate and inexperienced men were often alarmed by false reports and driven to some rash act, or else took hasty measures in affairs of the highest importance. The magistrates conceal those things which require to be kept unknown; and they disclose to the people whatever they determine to be expedient. It is not lawful to speak of the commonwealth, except in council.
 * FOURTH QUARTER VOCAB**
 * MILES; EQUITES; PEDES**

SPATIUM RURSUS LATUS, LATERIS, N IMPEDIMENTA, ORUM COEPI* VALLUM* CONTINENTER IUVO FLEO* FAMES FRUGES, FRUGUM F (PLURAL ONLY) RATIO CONSILIUM VULNUS IMPETUS NON NULLUs QUAERO CIRCA/CIRCITER* CONSILIUM VULNUS EXISTIMO* IMPETUS AGMEN* VEREOR* INTERIM SARCINA ACIES INTEREA/INTERIM ICTUS, US, M TANDEM QUAERO, QUAERERE, QUAESIVI, QUAESITUM TIMEO TIMERE TIMUI VEREOR VERERI VERITUS METUO METUERE METUI CONSILIUM AGMEN SUSTINEO INTERIM SARCINAE ACIES, ACIEI PRIMA LUCE EODAM DIE LONGE/LONGIUS COLLIS, COLLIS CASUS IPSE CONTENDO PERITUS UTER, UTRA UTRUM VIGILIA CERTUS PAGUS VOLO VELLE VOLUI MALO MALLE MALUI NOLO NOLLE NOLUI LEGIO LEGIONIS F legion OPUS, OPERIS, N work, task GRATIA, AE, F influence EXTRA beyond MUNITIO, IONIS, F noun - building project ANGUSTUS,A,UM/ANGUSTIA narrow/narrowness VASTO, ARE devastate PROHIBEO prohibit DUM while

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 * GALLIA EST OMNIS DIVISA IN PARTES TRES QUARUM UNAM INCOLUNT BELGAE**
 * ALIAM AQUITANI TERTIAM QUI IPSORUM LINGUA CELTAE NOSTRA GALLI APPELLANTUR.**
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CIVITAS PERSUADEO CONOR EXERCITUS army ORATIO speech IUS right (as in the rights of man) POTIOR to get hold of MOS, MORIS custom, habit UTINAM no transl NE "not" in subjunctive PARS, PARTIS, F direction LACUS, LACUS,M lake ANGUSTUS,A,UM narrow BELLUM GERO I wage war CONIURATIO, CONIURATIONIS, F a conspiracy FIO, FIERI, FACTUS SUM I become UNDIQUE from everywhere COPIAE, COPIARUM F troops (plural only) CUPIDITAS, tatis, f desire (with genitive, desire for) FACILIS, e adj. easy APUD near, among prep with accus QUOD because, conjunction MINIME least, adverb PROELIUM, i, n battle FINES, finium, f plural territory AGO AGERE EGI ACTUS I do, drive TRAHO TRAHERE TRAXI TRACTUS I drag CLAMOR, CLAMORIS, M shout/noise OFFICIUM, I, N duty OPES, OPUM, F resources/ wealth FERE adv. almost CASTRA, CASTRORUM n CAMP COLO, COLERE, COLUI, CULTUS INHABIT ALIUS, ALIA, ALIUM, OTHER, ANOTHER APPELLO APPELLARE APPELLAVI APPELLATUS I name QUA DE CAUSA therefore (for which reason) RELIQUUS,A,UM the remaining, rest
 * vocabulary in third quarter**

APUD nead, among prep with accus QUOD because, conjunction MINIME least, adverb PROELIUM, i, n battle FINES, finium, f plural territory CUPIDITAS, tatis, f desire (with genitive, desire for) FACILIS, e adj. easy 133 Tiberius Gracchus killed by means of SCU 123 same happened, more or less, to brother Gaius 107 - G. Marius, after victories against Jugurtha in Africa, becomes consul in Rome 101 - Caesar born 80s and 90s, civil wars surrounding Marius; "social" wars (against Italian allies) and slave wars (they were all put down) 70s rise of L Sulla, his many consulships, death of Marius 59 first triumvirate, Crassus, Caesar and Pompey 59 - 8 Caesar consul and then to Gaul 55 Crassus and Pompey consuls but Crassus sent to Asia and died (53) 51 Pompey and Senate refuse Caesar's request to enter Rome with his army; Caesar crosses Rubicon civil war ensues; Pompey sails to Egypt where agents of Caesar murder him 49 or so Caesar in Egypt with Cleopatra 44 Caesar killed by coalition of Antony, Brutus and other friends war then first between Antony and Brutus (Brutus commits suicide) and then Antony and Octavian (Caesar's adopted son); Octavian chases Antony to Egypt and claims control of Rome 31 the official start of the Empire under Octavian who had become Augustus and more exercises