C. Is cum servo properat ad latos Sexti agros.[2] Totum frumentum est
    iam maturum et magnus servorum numerus in Italiae[3] agris laborat. 
  M. Agricolaene sunt Galli et patriae suae agros arant? 
  C. Non agricolae sunt.  Bellum amant Galli, non agri culturam.  Apud eos
    viri pugnant et feminae auxilio liberorum agros arant parantque
    cibum. 
  M. Magister noster pueris puellisque gratas Gallorum fabulas saepe
    narrat et laudat eos saepe. 
  C. Mala est fortuna eorum et saepe miseri servi multis cum lacrimis
    patriam suam desiderant.

    [Footnote 1:  There are a number of departures from the normal order
    in this dialogue.  Find them, and give the reason.]

    [Footnote 2:  When a noun is modified by both a genitive and an
    adjective, a favorite order of words is adjective, genitive,
    noun.]

    [Footnote 3:  A modifying genitive often stands between a preposition
    and its object.]

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  Second Review, Lessons IX-XVII, Secs. 506-509

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LESSON XVIII

CONJUGATION
THE PRESENT, IMPERFECT, AND FUTURE TENSES OF SUM\

  [Special Vocabulary]

  NOUNS
   lu:dus, -i:, m.,_school_
  socius, soci:\, m., _companion, ally_ (social)

  ADJECTIVES
  i:ra:tus, -a, -um\, _angry, furious_ (irate)
  laetus, -a, -um\, happy, glad (social)

  ADVERBS
   hodie:, to-day
  ibi\, _there, in that place_
   mox, _presently, soon_, of the immediate future
  nunc\, now, the present moment
  nu:per\, _lately, recently_, of the immediate past

119. The inflection of a verb is called its conjugation (cf.  Sec. 23).  In English the verb has but few changes in form, the different meanings being expressed by the use of personal pronouns and auxiliaries, as, I am carried, we have carried, they shall have carried, etc.  In Latin, on the other hand, instead of using personal pronouns and auxiliary verbs, the form changes with the meaning.  In this way the Romans expressed differences in tense, mood, voice, person, and number.

120. The Tenses.  The different forms of a verb referring to different times are called its tenses.  The chief distinctions of time are present, past, and future: 

  1. The present\, that is, _what is happening now_, or
     _what usually happens_, is expressed by
        THE PRESENT TENSE

  2. The past\, that is, _what was happening, used to happen,
      happened, has happened_, or _had happened_, is expressed by
        THE IMPERFECT, PERFECT, AND PLUPERFECT TENSES

  3. The future\, that is, _what is going to happen_, is expressed by
        THE FUTURE AND FUTURE PERFECT TENSES