Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: dozing1 quietly in [one] corner. I turned-away2 [and] left him3 in quiet possession. The boys were waiting outside the door, and crying, Mycence! My- cence! led me away from the place. 5. I have at length arrived at Cadiz. I came across the bay yesterday morning, and have established myself in very pleasant rooms which look out upon the public square of the city. The morning sun awakes me, and the sea-breeze comes in at my window. At night the square is lighted by lamps suspended from the trees, and thronged with a brilliant crowd of the young and gay. Cadiz is beautiful almost beyond-imagination.4 1 dormito (imperfect). Participle. 3 Relative. 4 supra qnam quis animo concipere possit. Lesson 19. Terbs. — 1. Narrative Tenses. 1. Learn §§ 264. a; 276, with a, d; 277, with a-c; 278, 279, with a-c; 280 (Present and Past Tenses of the Indicative) ; and 275 (Historical Infinitive). Review § n5. b (use of Perfect and Imperfect). 2. The narrative tenses in Latin are used nearly as in English. But — a. The Present is used much oftener than in English to express a past action more vividly. ft. The ordinary English past tense is represented in Latin sometimes by the Perfect (historical), and sometimes by the Imperfect. (For the distinction see § 115.). But the use of the Imperfect depends not so much on the actual duration of the action as upon the way in which the writer wishes to represent it. Thus — 1. Cicero lived sixty-three years, Cicero vixit LXIII annos, [Here the action, though of long duration, is stated as a simple fact.] 2. Bibulus watched the heavens, while Caesar held the elec tion, Sibulus de caelo servabat, cum Caesar comitia hdbebat, or habuit. [Here the action, though brief, is represented as continuing.] 3. Homer flourished be...