6-7. +Ducario nomen erat+ = (his) _name was Ducarius_, i.e. _ei nomen erat Ducario_, where +Ducario+ is possess. dat. in appos. to _ei_ understood. It is, however, possible that the trooper’s name was Ducario, but cf. page 126, l. 2. [[Selection C19, line 645]] 7. +facie quoque noscitans consulem+ = _by his face also_ (i.e. as well as by his armour) _recognising the consul_. 7-8. +‘En’ inquit ‘his est’ popularibus suis+ = _See, said he, to his fellow-countrymen_ (comrades), _this is the man_. 8. +qui legiones nostras cecīdit+ = _who slaughtered our legions_. There is a slight difficulty here, but a moment’s thought will remove it. It must be +cecīdit+, perf. of _caedo_, and not _cecĭdit_, perf. of _cado_, which is intransitive. 8-9. +agrosque et urbem est depopulatus+ = _and laid waste our fields and our city_. 9-10. +Iam ego hanc victimam mānibus peremptorum foede civium dabo+ = _now I will give this victim to the shades of our countrymen foully slain_. +Mānibus+ cannot = _hands_ (_mănibus_), for +peremptorum civium+, which immediately follows, fixes the right meaning. 10-11. +subditisque calcaribus equo+ = _and putting spurs to his horse_. You will not attempt to translate this Abl. Absol. literally. 11-12. +per confertissimam hostium turbam impetum facit+ = _through the closely packed crowd of the enemy he makes his charge_. 12. +obtruncatoque prius armigero+ = _and first cut down the armour-bearer_ (i.e. of Flaminius). 12-13. +qui se infesto venienti obviam obiecerat+ = _who had thrown himself in the way of him advancing at the charge_. +infesto venienti+ is clearly dative with +obviam+. 13. +consulem lancea transfixit+ = _ran the Consul through with his lance_. 13-14. +spoliare cupientem+ = (him, i.e. Ducarius) _wishing to spoil_ (the consul). 14. +triarii obiectis scutis arcuere+ = _the triarii_ (veterans) _thrusting their shields in the way kept off_. This passage is quite simple, but it will serve to show you how you may with practice learn to +take the thought in the Latin order+, and to grasp the writer’s meaning. All that now remains for you to do is to write out a translation in good English, using short coordinate sentences, each complete in itself, in place of the more involved structure of the original. The following version by the late Professor Jebb will serve as a model:--