Book 2 — Chapter XXVIII.
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Chapter XXVIII.
1. Ablative of Separation: 243; H. 413.
2. Substitutes for Partitive Genitive: 216, c; H. 397, N. 3.
3. Substantive Clauses of Purpose with ut (ne): 331; H. 498.
1. Of five hundred senators, three were left.
2. Out of forty (quadrāginta) thousand men, four hundred were able to bear arms.
3. Cæsar will keep their1 neighbors from doing2 harm.
4. The name and nation of the Nervii are reduced3 almost to destruction.
5. He orders the neighboring people to refrain from doing harm to the Nervii.4
Notes.— 1 their: not suus. 2 doing: omit. 3 reduced: participle used as an adjective in the neuter plural. 4 Nervii: genitive.