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accusative adjective advised agricola amāv amō Androclus ārum ātis bellum Cĉsar capiō castra CHAPTER Cicero clause COLLOQUIUM conj consul dative declension DEPONENT VERBS diēs Ennius entis erant erat eris erit esset Examine the following EXERCISES faciō fuit Galba Gaul genitive gerundive habet Hannibal imperative indecl infinitive inis ipse itum king Latin loved mihi mīlitēs multa Nēmō NEUT neuter Nōn nġnne nōs noun ōnis oppidum Orgetorix ōris ōrum participle passive pater pēnsum PERF perfect pluperfect plur PLURAL praeceptor praised prep PRES pron pronoun puellae puer Pyrrhus quae quam quī quid quin Quis quod regō rēs rēx Rhea Silvia Roman Romānī Roxbury Latin School RULE OF SYNTAX sentence Sicilia SINGULAR soldiers stem subjunctive sunt thou translated verbs virī VOCABULARY volō vowel words
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Page 90 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 141 - ORDINALS. 1. unus, -a, -um 2. duo, duae, duo 3. tres, tria 4. quattuor 5. quinque 6. sex 7. septem 8. octo 9. novem 10. decem 1 1 . undecim 12.
Page vi - ... of theory, on the principle that the thorough acquisition of the elements of Latin by the young learner must be more art than science, — more the work of observation, comparison, and imitation, than the mechanical following of rules, or the exercise of analysis and conscious inductive reasoning. An effort has been made, while following a rigorously scientific method in the development of the successive subjects, to impart something of attractiveness, interest, freshness, and variety to the...
Page 6 - English, and the meanings of the common grammatical terms, such as subject and predicate, case, tense, voice, declension, conjunction, etc." Manuals have now been prepared in considerable variety for imparting this limited amount of grammatical information by examples and practice rather than by rules and precepts, so that the greater part of the time formerly spent on English grammar can now...
Page 23 - Imperfect eramus, we were eratis, you were erant, they were Future erimus. we shall be eritis, you will be erunt, they will be Perfect...
Page vi - ... reasoning. An effort has been made, while following a rigorously scientific method in the development of the successive subjects, to impart something of attractiveness, interest, freshness, and variety to the study of the elements of Latin. Means to this end are the colloquia (simple Latin Dialogues), the choice of extracts for translation, introduced as early as possible, and the mode of treatment in every part, extending even to the choice of Latin words and to the construction of the exercises....
Page 24 - INFINITIVE PRESENT esse, to be PERFECT fuisse, to have been FUTURE futurus esse...
Page 92 - Observe that the comparative of the adverb is the same as the neuter accusative singular of the comparative of the adjective ; and that the superlative is formed from the superlative of the adjective by changing, as in the positive, the final o of the stem to e. b.
Page 141 - ... tertius quartus quintus sextus Septimus octavus nonus decimus undecimus duodecimus tertius decimus quartus decimus quintus decimus sextus decimus Septimus decimus...