The following have Dative and Ablative plural in -ubus :

(1) Dux milites et currus in portum hostium misit, et
naves multas incendit.

(2) Miserum puerum taurus cornu acuto transfixit.
(3) Leones partum dentibus et unguibus, capri cornibus
defendunt.

(4) Rex crudelissimus quattuor virgines in specum pardi
jam miserat.

(5) Milites gladiis, ministri verubus, feminæ unguibus tecta oppidi defenderunt.

(6) Pueri crabrones acubus transfixerant.

(7) Hieme frigus ursas in specus aget.

(8) Estate flores horti multa apum agmina delecta

verunt.

(9) In lacubus insula pisces maximi ranas miseras con

sumunt.

(10) Puero minimo avunculus arcum et arcam

dederat.

cras

(11) Ursæ quidem prædam in specubus vorant, viri autem cibum in oppidis edunt.

(12) Leones quidem prædam unguibus et dentibus, viri autem cultris dividunt.

N.B.-English: He gave me an egg, an apple, and a nut.

Latin (1) Mihi ovum, malum, nucem dedit; or,

:

(2) Mihi ovum et malum et nucem dedit.

(1) You and I, Caius, will eat food in the bear's cave. (2) Foolish old men, you were yesterday attacking the cave of the lion, most savage of animals, with

stones.

(3) Yesterday the witnesses sent six messengers into the enemy's island.

(4) Six tribes of men and a very great multitude of women will have entered the town to-morrow. (5) The cruel Fulvia had transfixed Cicero's tongue with a pin.

(6) I, indeed, had wounded the robber with a spit; but you were defending (your) children with a knife like a dagger.

(7) Yesterday the serpent wounded Caius' knee with. (its) teeth.

(8) The dog's teeth tore the poor fox.

(9) The old man's daughter had given the seer a hat, a robe like a net, and a strong staff.

(10) Fierce fishes had devoured the frogs in the lakes. (11) To-morrow the maidservant will have washed the child's limbs with water.

(12) Small hornets love great oaks.

These substantives belong to the Fifth and last declension. There are not many substantives of this declension. The two substantives mentioned above are the only two which have the three last cases of the plural. The only others which have plurals

are

Acies, effigies, and facies,

Spes, series, with species and glacies.

= mad

These have the first three cases of the plural; all
the others being names of ideas-as rabies
ness-have no plurals.

All Substantives of the Fifth declension are feminine, except dies, which is masculine.

N.B.-Dies may be used as feminine when it is in the Singular number.

(1) Cras aquam decem dies glacies dura texerit.
(2) Spes impigros juvenes, non senes stimulant.
(3) Rabiem canum semper timemus.

(4) Rabies plures cecidit quam bellum.

(5) Mulierem trucidavit, et toral sanie imbuit.

(6) Cras urbem intrabimus et decem equos pecunia

ememus.

(7) Febris, hominum pernicies, incolas insulæ non ter

ruerat.

(8) Agros et oppida insulæ tætra macies vastaverat. (9) Effigiem patris mortui infans nocte obscura timet. (10) Peditum agmen hostium acies deleverat.

(1) Ye fools, we will dye the garments with gore.
(2) The boys praised the girls' long hair.

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(3) Hopes delight boys, but old men do not like

images.

(4) We were besieging the enemy's city five days.
(5) The unjust judge, Caius, had detained the innocent
men in prison nine days.

(6) War has destroyed many men-madness more.
(7) Wasting disease will have destroyed more men than
poison.

(8) Bulls slay men with (their) horns; madness (slays
men) with wasting disease.

(9) False hopes were consuming Balbus.

(10) Ice delights boys; wicked men love the line of battle.

N. Celer celeris celere.
V. Celer celeris celere.
Ac. Celerem celerem celere.
G. Celeris celeris celeris.
D. Celeri celeri celeri.
Ab. Celeri celeri celeri.

Plural.

M.

celeres celeria.

Ac. Celeres
G. Celerium celerium celerium.
D. Celeribus celeribus celeribus.
Ab. Celeribus celeribus celeribus.
Swift.

There are no adjectives declined exactly like celer, but
there are twelve which have the same terminations,
but which drop e before r, as-