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Usages of de
Inter flumen et viam parvus pons est, et pueri de ponte flumen spectant.
Between the river and the road there is a small bridge, and the boys look at the river from the bridge.
Discipuli cum magistro de bello loquuntur.
The students talk with the teacher about war.
Folium de arbore cadit et in terra manet.
A leaf falls from the tree and remains on the ground.
Pater de scalis descendit et servam vocat.
Father comes down the stairs and calls the female servant.
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