Nom. tres tria Gen. trium trium Dat. tribus tribus Acc. tres (tris) tria Abl. tribus tribus

4.  The hundreds (except centum) are declined like the Plural of bonus.

5.  Mille is regularly an adjective in the Singular, and indeclinable.  In the Plural it is a substantive (followed by the Genitive of the objects enumerated; Sec. 201, 1), and is declined,—­

Nom.  milia       Acc.  milia
Gen.  milium      Voc.  milia
Dat.  milibus     Abl.  milibus

Thus mille homines, a thousand men; but duo milia hominum, two thousand men, literally two thousands of men.

  a.  Occasionally the Singular admits the Genitive construction; as, mille
  hominum.

6.  Other Cardinals are indeclinable.  Ordinals and Distributives are declined like Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions.

Peculiarities in the Use of Numerals.

81. 1.  The compounds from 21 to 99 may be expressed either with the larger or the smaller numeral first.  In the latter case, et is used.  Thus:—­

    triginta sex or sex et triginta, thirty-six.

2.  The numerals under 90, ending in 8 and 9, are often expressed by subtraction; as,—­

    duodeviginti, eighteen (but also octodecim);

    undequadraginta, thirty-nine (but also triginta novem or novem et
    triginta).

3.  Compounds over 100 regularly have the largest number first; the others follow without et; as,—­

    centum viginti septem, one hundred and twenty-seven.

    anno octingentesimo octogesimo secundo, in the year 882.

Yet et may be inserted where the smaller number is either a digit or one of the tens; as,—­

    centum et septem, one hundred and seven;

    centum et quadraginta, one hundred and forty.

4.  The Distributives are used—­

  a) To denote so much each, so many apiece; as,—­

    bina talenta eis dedit, he gave them two talents each.

  b) When those nouns that are ordinarily Plural in form, but Singular in
  meaning, are employed in a Plural sense; as,—­

    binae litterae, two epistles.

  But in such cases, uni (not singuli) is regularly employed for one, and
  trini (not terni) for three; as,—­

    unae litterae, one epistle; trinae litterae, three epistles.

  c) In multiplication; as,—­

    bis bina sunt quattuor, twice two are four.

  d) Often in poetry, instead of the cardinals; as,—­

    bina hastilia, two spears.

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C. PRONOUNS.

82.  A Pronoun is a word that indicates something without naming it.