[Footnote 1:  Small islands are classed with towns because they
    generally have but one town, and the name of the town is the same as
    the name of the island.]

267. The Locative Case.  We saw above that the place-relation expressed by at or in is regularly covered by the locative ablative.  However, Latin originally expressed this relation by a separate form known as the locative case.  This case has been everywhere merged in the ablative excepting in the singular number of the first and second declensions.  The form of the locative in these declensions is like the genitive singular, and its use is limited to names of towns and small islands, domi:\, _at home_, and a few other words.

268. RULE.  Locative and Locative Ablative. To express the /place in which\ with names of towns and small islands, /if they are singular and of the first or second declension\, use the locative; otherwise use the locative ablative without a preposition; as,

  Galba Romae habitat, Galba lives at Rome
  Galba Corinthi habitat, Galba lives at Corinth
  Galba domi habitat, Galba lives at home

Here Romae\, Corinthi\, and domi\ are _locatives_, being _singular_ and of the first and second declensions respectively.  But in

  Galba Athenis habitat, Galba lives at Athens,
  Galba Pompeiis habitat, Galba lives at Pompeii

Athenis\ and Pompeiis\ are locative ablatives.  These words can have no locative case, as the nominatives Athenae\ and Pompeii\ are_plural_ and there is no plural locative case form.

269. The word domus\, _home, house_, has forms of both the second and the fourth declension.  Learn its declension (Sec. 468).

270. EXERCISES

First learn the special vocabulary, p. 293.

I. 1.  Corinthi omnia insignia auri a ducibus victoribus rapta erant. 2.  Caesar Genavam exercitum magnis itineribus duxit. 3.  Quem pontem hostes cremaverant?  Pontem in Rheno hostes cremaverant. 4.  Pompeiis multas Romanorum domos videre poteritis. 5.  Roma consul equo veloci rus properavit. 6.  Domi consulis homines multi sedebant. 7.  Imperator iusserat legatum Athenas cum multis navibus longis navigare. 8.  Ante moenia urbis sunt ordines arborum altarum. 9.  Propter arbores altas nec lacum nec portum reperire potuimus. 10.  Proeliis crebris Caesar legiones suas quae erant in Gallia exercebat. 11.  Cotidie in loco idoneo castra ponebat et muniebat.

II. 1.  Caesar, the famous general, when he had departed from Rome, hastened to the Roman province on a swift horse.[2] 2.  He had heard a rumor concerning the allies at Geneva. 3.  After his arrival Caesar called the soldiers together and commanded them to join battle. 4.  The enemy hastened to retreat, some because[3] they were afraid, others because[3] of wounds. 5.  Recently I was at Athens and saw the place where the judges used to sit.[4] 6.  Marcus and Sextus are my brothers; the one lives at Rome, the other in the country.