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Ablative Plural Ablative Singular Ablaut accent Accusative Plural Accusative Singular Adverbs analogy Aorist appears appended assimilation become Brugmann century A.D. Clause of Characteristic compensatory lengthening compounds Dative Dative Singular Declension developed diphthong disappeared earlier early Latin ending final formation Genitive Genitive Plural Genitive Singular Greek Gröber Grundriss Indicative Indo-European case-ending Indo-European parent-speech inflection inscriptions Keil Körting labial Latin Language Latin words Lewis E.L.D. Lindsay Locative long vowel Marx and Lewis meaning Miles Gloriosus Monumentum Ancyranum mute nasal Neuter Nominative Singular nouns o-stems oblique Optative original Oscan Passive Perfect phonetic Plautus preposition primitive Priscian probably pronoun pronunciation quin quinque Quintilian regularly became Relative Clauses represents result rhotacism Romance languages Romance points root Sanskrit semivowel short vowel shortening sonant spirant Stolz strong grade Subjunctive suffix syllables termination tion tive Umbrian Unthematic verbs Vocative Volitive weak form weak grade whence Wörterbuch
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Page 149 - The so-called Future Indicative of the Third and Fourth Conjugations is (outside the First Singular) a Present Subjunctive of the ^-formation which has taken on Future function, eg fer-es, audi-es, etc. 3. The Imperfect Subjunctive also belongs here. There are two types, both Aorists in origin : a) -s- Aorists. Examples are : es-s-em, ferrem for *fer-s-em (§ 106. 3), vellem for *vel-s-em (§ 106. 3) ; ama-r-em for *amas-em (§ 98. i); morie-r-em for *morie-s-em, audi-r-em for *audts-em.
Page 232 - Albany, NY — As a text-book it seems to me, if not absolutely perfect, to approach as near perfection as any text-book I have ever examined. The introduction and colored plates are invaluable as aids to a clear understanding of the text, and are superior to anything of the kind elsewhere. The maps, notes, vocabulary, and table of idioms are unsurpassed in any text-book of Caesar now in use. Richard M. Jones, Head-Master Wm.
Page 207 - Conditional sentences are the development of an earlier Parataxis. Thus we may assume that the earliest type of si valet, bint esi was btnc est, valet, ' it is well ; he is well '. The conditional force was purely the result of the context, which indicated that valet was something assumed. As language developed, the fact that one clause was related to the other as an assumption or condition was brought out more definitely" (italics mine) "by the use of si.
Page 29 - ... simple and easy of application, — devised by some Greek grammarian for the division of words in writing, when one 1 Such seems to be the conception of Professor Bennett, eg, who (p. 31 of the Appendix) justifies skepticism with regard to the correctness of these rules for Latin by referring to " the irresponsible borrowing in the case of the testimony of the grammarians concerning the pronunciation of z.
Page 30 - In the Appendix, p. 32, he uses Priscian's argument from ablatus and abrado to show that in such words the mute must have been joined with the preceding vowel. Then, a little later, he says, "As regards the rule laid down in the Grammar (§ 4, 4), to the effect that prepositional compounds are separated into their component parts, the evidence seems altogether against this. The division per-eo, inter-ea, gives us a closed (ie long) syllable, whence it would appear that the actual division in such...
Page 232 - As a text-book it seems to me if not absolutely perfect, to approach as near perfection as any book I have ever examined. The Introduction and colored plates are invaluable as aids to a clear understanding of the text, and are superior to anything of the kind elsewhere. The maps, notes, vocabulary, and table of idioms, are unsurpassed in any text-book of Caesar now in use. Professor HW Johnston, Indiana University: I have no hesitation in saying that it is the best and handsomest edition of the most...
Page 176 - Thus pudct suggests pudor ; paenitet, paenitentia ; miseret, misericordia, etc." There is here (though Mr. Bennett's Appendix is addressed to teachers and advanced students) no hint that the construction after memini, reminiscor, obliviscor, admoneo, etc., is descended from the parent speech (it has come...