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;32 THIED DECLENSION. § 15GENITIVE PLURAL.[See Rules, 79—83.]9. The following nouns have ium in the genitive plural :Caro, f., flesh. Lar, m., a household god. Par, a, a pair.Conors, f., a cohort. Linter, m. or f., a boat. Quiris, m., a Roman.Cor, n., the heart. Mas, in., a male. Samnis, m., a SamrateCos, f., a whetstone. Nix, f., snow. Strix, f., a screech-owl.Dos, £,, a dowry. Nox, f., night. Uter, m., a bottle.Fauce, f., the jaws. Os, n., a bone. Venter, m., the belly.Obs. 5. The compounds of uncia and as have likewise ium; as, Septunx,m., seven ounces, septuncium ; sextans, m., two ounces, sextantium.Obs. 6. Apis, f., a bee, has apum and apium ; fraus, fraud ; and mus, amouse, generally, and fornax, lar, palus, and radix, sometimes, have ium;opis, t, power, has opum only. Gryps, m., a griffon ; lynx, m. or f., a lynxand Sphinx, f., the Sphinx, have icm. Bos, c, gen. bovis, an ox, has bourn.DATIVE PLURAL.10. Bos, c, an ox or a cow, has bobus or bubus in the dative plural ; andsus, c, a sow, has suibus, or subus. Nouns in ma have tis as well as tibus ;as, poema, n., a poem, poematibus or poematis. The Greek termination s«or sin- is very uncommon in prose, and is admissible only in words purelyGreek. (See No. 13, below.)ACCUSATIVE PLURAL,11. The form of the accusative plural in as is admissible in all wordiwhich have that termination in Greek, but is rarely used in prose. Livyhowever, frequently uses Macedonas ; and Allobrogas is found in Caesa*(For the accusative plural in is, or eis, see 82.)12. Some nouns of the third declension are somewhat p«cuiiar in different cases, as follows :Jupiter.Vis, force. poiver, Fern.Singular. Singular. Plural.N. Jupiter, JV. vis, iV. vir-es,G. J6v-is, 6r. vis, G. vir-ium,D. Jov-i, D. —,D. vir-ibus,Ac. Jov-em, Ac. vim, Ac. vir-es,V. Jupiter, V. vis, V. vir-es,Ab. Jdv-e. Ab. yi. Ab. vir-ibus.