(from Teach Yourself Latin, by Gavin Betts p. 14)
following the convention of that book, the text is presented without diacriticals
1 Primo amicitiam incolarum rogabat.
2 Feminas Galliae non monebatis et nunc in viis ambulant.
3 Italiam semper amabam, et nunc amo.
4 In insula Sicilia pugnabamus sed incolae amicitiam negabant.
5 Cur agricolas Graeciae superas?
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1 Primo amicitiam incolarum rogabat .
2 Feminas Galliae non monebatis et nunc in viis ambulant .
3 Italiam semper amabam , et nunc amo .
4 In insula Sicilia pugnabamus sed incolae amicitiam negabant (deny/refuse, 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative .
1. At first he was asking for the friendship of the inhabitants
2. You didn't used to warn the Gaulish women, and now they are walking on the streets.
3. I always used to love Italy, and I love it now.
4.We were fighting in the Sicilian isle, but the inhabitants denied their friendship.
5.Why do you overcome the farmers of Greece?