Heliogabalus, spiritu contento, viginti quatuor ostrearum
demersit in alvum, quod Dandoni etiam longé antecellit.
Heliogabalus, at one breath, swallowed two dozen of oysters,
which beats even Dando out and out.
[Illustration: HELIOGABALUS.]
Many of the ancients could swallow a good deal.
A relative placed between two substantives of different genders and
numbers, sometimes agrees with the latter, as
Pueri tuentur illum librum quæ Latina Grammatices et Comica dicitur.
Boys regard that book which is called the Comic Latin Grammar.
Sometimes a relative agrees with the primitive, which is understood in
the possessive, as
Mirabantur impudentiam suam qui ad reginam literas misit.
They wondered at his impudence, who wrote a letter to the queen.
If a nominative case be interposed between the relative and the verb,
the relative is governed by the verb, or by some other word which is
placed in the sentence with the verb, as
Luciferi quos Prometheus surripuit, ad Jovem cujus numen contempsit,
pertinebant.
The Lucifers which Prometheus shirked, belonged to Jupiter,
whose authority he despised.
In fact, Prometheus _made light_ of Jupiter's _lightning_.
We now take leave of the Concords, observing only how pleasant it is to
see _relatives agree_.
[Illustration: IT 'S PLEASANT TO SEE RELATIVES AGREE.]
[Plate:
PROMETHEUS VINCTUS.]