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Grammatical Constructions - subjunctive clauses  ...

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  • regni cupiditate inductus coniurationem nobilitatis fecit et civitati persuasit ut de finibus suis exirent 1.2
    indirect command - led on by the desire of authority, he made a conspiracy of the nobility and persuaded the state to leave out of their own boundaries
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  • His rebus fiebat ut et minus late vagarentur et minus facile finitimis bellum inferre possent 1.2
    result clause - b/c of these things it happened that they could wander less widely and could make war on their neighbors less easily
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  • in eo itinere persuadet Castico....ut regnum in civitate sua occuparet, quod pater ante habuerat 1.3
    purpose clause - on that journey he persuaded Casticus to seize the authority in his own state, which his father had held before
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  • [eum, i.e. Orgetoricem] damnatum poenam sequi oportebat, ut igni cremaretur 1.4
    result clause - him condemned, it was necessary that punishment follow, that he be consumed by fire
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  • Post eius mortem nihilo minus Helvetii id quod constituerant facere conantur, ut e finibus suis exeant 1.5
    purpose clause - after his death, nevertheless, the Helvetians try to do the thing which they had decided - to leave out of their boundaries
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  • mons autem altissimus impendebat, ut facile perpauci prohibere possent 1.6
    result clause - moreover, a very tall mountain was hanging over, with the result that very few could easily keep off
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  • Caesari cum id nuntiatum esset, eos per provinciam nostram iter facere conari 1.7
    Cum clause - When it was announced to Caesar, that they are trying to make a journey through our province...
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  • tamen, ut spatium intercedere posset dum milites quos imperaverat convenirent.... 1.7
    purpose clause - however, so that a space of time could pass while the soldiers whom he had ordered could gather....
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  • legatis respondit diem se ad deliberandum sumpturum: si quid vellent, ad Id. April reverterentur 1.7
    conditional statement:he responded to the envoys that he is going to take a day for deliberating: if they want anything, they should return on the Ides of April
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  • cum illi....audacter tela coicerent et equos insuefactos incitarent 4.24
    cum clause - while those....bolding were throwing weapons and were inciting their trained horses
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  • tum nostri cohortati inter se, ne tantum dedecus admitteretur, universi ex navi desiluerunt. 4.25
    negative purpose clause - then our guys, greatly encouraged amongst themselves, lest such great a dishonor be committed, altogether jumped down from the boat
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  • quod cum animadvertisset Caesar, scaphas longarum navium...compleri iussit 4.26
    cum clause - which, when Caesar had noticed, he ordered the skiffs of the war ships to be filled
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  • hunc illi e navi egressum, cum ad eos oratoris modo Caesaris mandata deferret, comphrehenderant 4.27
    cum clause - those had arrested him having disembarked from the ship when he was reporting the orders of Caesar to them in the manner of an envoy
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  • Quae cum adpropinquarent Britanniae...tanta tempestas subito coorta est ut nulla earum cursum tenere posset 4.28
    cum clause and result clause- Which, when they were approaching Britain...such great a storm suddenly arose that none of them could hold their course
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  • Eadem nocte accidit ut esset luna plena, qui dies a maritimos aestus maximos in Oceano efficere consuevit 4.29
    result clause - on that same night it happened that there was. a full moon, which day is accustomed to bring about very big maritime tides in the ocean
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  • itaque, cum summo studio a militibus administraretur, XII navibus amissis, reliquis ut navigari satis commode posset efficit. 4.31
    cum clause and result clause - while it was being managed....he brought about that the remaining be sailed more conveniently enough
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