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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 651 battle-field and battle-field on which for time the combatants were destined to meet with checkered fortune for not having been supported at the right moment and being encompassed by great organised numbers Codrington's disordered force was made to fall back under the weight of the Wladimir column When Ulphilas executed the arduous task of trans- lating the Holy Scriptures into the native tongue of the Goths he prudently suppressed the four Books of Kings fearing that they might irritate the fierce and sanguinary spirit of the Barbarians He was also obliged to com- pose an alphabet consisting of twenty-four letters of which he invented four to express the peculiar sounds that were unknown to the Greek and Latin pronunciation Grammatical Questions Give definition illustrated by examples of the use of the passive voice in German By which tenses can the probability of predicated action be expressed in German Translate hear some one coming it is probably my brother -You Surely do not desire me to break my oath -It pro- bably meant something else Which forms of the verb may be used in German instead of the usual imperative In which instance are the relations of possibility ux1 verbs of tense fyabm and fein instead of by the auxiliary verbs oi mood Give examples In which instance is the apposition expressing title or relationship and preceding the proper declined and when is the latter only inflected and not the apposition Ϊ Give examples name