Henry's first Latin book. [With] Key

Thomas Kerchever Arnold

1878

Contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS LESSON PAGE 1 Cases in Latin and English: 1
• On forming the Accusative Case: 4
• On the Gender of Substantives: 5
• The Genitive and Dative Singular: 8
• The Ablative Singular: 11
• The Plural Number: 12
• On forming Three Tenses in First Conjugation: 14
• Accusative with Transitive Verb: 17
• On forming Three Tenses in Second Conjugation: 20
• On forming Three Tenses in Third Conjugation: 21
• On forming Three Tenses in Fourth Conjugation: 22
• Supplementary to the foregoing Exercises: 24
• The Passive Voice Averbs and Everbs: 27
• The Passive Voice continued Consonant and Uverbs Iverbs: 30
• On forming the Perfect Pluperfect and FuturePerfect Indicative Active Adjectives in x ns rs: 32
• The Comparative and Superlative of Adjectives Acer Unus: 36
• The Infinitive: 39
• The Infinitive continued Sum Possum Volo The Prolative Infinitive: 42
• The Infinitive continued Gerunds Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns: 46
• The Gerundive Gerundive Attraction Dative of the Agent: 50
• The Supines Eo Nē quidem: 54
• The Participles Periphrastic Conjugation: 57
• The Perfect and Pluperfect Passive Deponents: 60
• The Accusative and Infinitive: 64
• LESSON PAGE 25 The Relative Pronoun Copulative Verbs: 66
• The Reflexive Pronouns Ipse Idem: 69
• The Subjunctive Ut and Nē expressing Purpose Consecution of Tenses: 72
• The Subjunctive continued Ut expressing a Conse quence Quis quæ quid: 77
• The Imperative Nē in Prohibitions: 80
• The Indefinite Pronoun Quis Cum Quum Interro gative Sentences: 83
• Impersonal Verbs: 86
• Apposition Summus Imus etc Conditional Sen tences: 87
• The Accusative Place Space Time Double Ac cusative Prepositions: 90
• The Genitive Subjective Genitive: 93
• The Genitive continued Objective Genitive Miseret pænitet etc: 96
• The Dative: 99
• The Dative continued Impersonal Construction: 102
• The Ablative QuasiPassive Verbs: 104
• The Ablative continued Time Price: 107
• The Ablative continued Place The Locative: 109
• The Ablative Absolute: 112
• Ablative of the thing compared Quam in Comparison: 115
• Ablative denoting Amount of Difference Tanto quanto eo quo: 118
• Translation of May Might Ought: 120
• Ut Nē with Verbs of Fearing: 122
• Quin Quominus: 123
• Interrogatives Direct Questions: 126
• Indirect Questions: 128
• Double Questions: 129
• Some Conjunctions always found with the Subjunctive: 131
• Qui with the Subjunctive: 132
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs: 134
• Transitive and Intransitive Verbs: 136
• Various uses of Qui: 139
• Conjunctions: 148
• Differences of Idiom: 166
• 169: 193
• LatinEnglish: 213
• General Index: 232

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Henry's first Latin book. [With] Key; Henry's first Latin book. [With] Key, Thomas Kerchever Arnold
• Author: Thomas Kerchever Arnold
• Editor: Charles Granville Gepp
• Published: 1878
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Aug 14, 2006