You have seen how Analysis helps you to arrive at the main thought of the sentence, and you are familiar with the principles that govern the order of words in Latin, and the important part played by the emphatic position of words. So you may now try to +think in Latin+; that is, to take the thought in the Latin order, without reference to analysis or the English order. You will do well to follow closely this advice of experienced teachers:--‘Read every word as if it were the last on the page, and you had to turn over without being able to turn back. If, however, you are obliged to turn back, begin again at the beginning of the sentence and proceed as before. Let each word of the Latin suggest some conception gradually adding to and completing the meaning of the writer. If the form of the word gives several possibilities, hold them all in your mind, so far as may be, till something occurs in the progress of the sentence to settle the doubt.’ 1. +Tres ferme horas+ = _for nearly three hours_. This construction (Acc. of extent of time) will be familiar to you. Notice the emphatic position of the phrase. +pugnatum est+ = _the battle was fought_. This use of the so-called impersonal passive is very frequent, and is generally best translated by taking the root-idea of the verb as a subject. +et ubique atrociter+ = _and everywhere fiercely_. 2. +circa consulem tamen+ = _around the consul however_. +acrior infestiorque pugna est+ = _the battle is more keen and more vehement_. This presents no difficulty; +acrior+ and +infestior+ must qualify +pugna+, which follows immediately. 3. +eum+ = _him_, plainly _consulem_ (i.e. Flaminius), for no one else has been mentioned. Notice the emphatic position of +eum+. +et robora virorum sequebantur+ = _both the strongest of his troops followed_. You may know that +robur+ (lit. _hard wood_) is often used of _the toughest troops_, _the flower of an army_. +et ipse+ = _and himself_, i.e. the consul (Flaminius). 3-4. +quacunque in parte+ = _in whatever part_. 4. +premi ac laborare senserat suos+ = _he had seen his men hard pressed and in distress_. No other meaning is possible, nor does the order present any difficulty, but notice the emphatic position of +suos+. 4-5. +impigre ferebat opem+ = _actively he bore help_. 5. +insignemque armis+ = _and distinguished by his arms_, clearly referring to +consulem+ (l. 2). Cf. +eum+ (l. 3). +et hostes summa vi petebant+ = _both the enemy with all their might attacked_. +et+ might, of course, = _also_ (cf. +et+, l. 2), but the second +et+ which immediately follows determines the meaning _both_. 6. +et tuebantur cives+ = _and his fellow-citizens_ (Romans) _defended_ (him). +donec Insuber eques+ = _until an Insubrian trooper_. +donec+ may mean _while_, but the context shows that _until_ or _at last_ is the right meaning here.