8.1 Tullus et Mettius

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Non diu
pax Albána mansit,
nam Méttius, dux Albanórum,
cives suos
se defícere
vidit,
gráviter enim ferébant
unum paucórum certámen
finem belli fecísse.
Ítaque
Veiéntes Fidenatésque
ad bellum
contra Romános ímpulit.
Ipsum
Tullus in auxílium arcessívit,
sed ille
áciem in collem subdúxit
et fortúnam belli exspectávit.
Tullus
hoc intéllegit
et clamat:
"Ego
Méttium hoc fácere
iussi;
hostes
a tergo circumveníre
vólumus!"
Propter hoc audítum
magnópere pertérriti
hostes
victi sunt.

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TEXT SOURCE: First Latin Reader, by Edward Chickering (1917). Vocabulary List in back of book (and it is an analytical type of vocabulary listing). In addition, this book does have macrons.

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