Latin reader: nature study and easy stories for sight reading during the first year in Latin

Alphaeus Bruce Reynolds

D. C. Heath & Company, 1918 - Latin language - 349 pages

Contents

• THE MOON: 5
• STARLIGHT: 11
• LAND AND WATER: 17
• THE ATMOSPHERE: 18
• THE LATINS: 24
• LIGHT AND COLOR: 30
• THE DAYS OF THE MONTH: 36
• GRAVITY: 42
• WRITING ROMAN WRITING MATERIALS: 49
• THE RETURN FROM SCHOOL: 55
• AEMILIUS RESCUES BRENNUS: 59
• AN INVITATION TO VISIT ROME: 61
• A FIRE IN ROME: 67
• ARMINIUS GOES AHUNTING: 71
• THE GERMANS IN GAUL: 77
• GALLIC CHIEFS: 83
• CAESAR AVENGES LUCIUS CASSIUS: 89
• THE GRAIN DOES NOT ARRIVE: 90
• THE COUNCIL OF BIBRACTE: 96
• ARIOVISTUS DEFEATED: 101
• ARMINIUS WARNS THE SUEBIANS: 107
• GENERAL VIEW OF NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES: 117
• OBSERVATIONS THAT COUNT: 124
• THE MEANING OF THE CASES: 130
• INDEFINITE OR UNDEFINED PERSONS: 136
• CASES KNOWN BY THEIR USE IN SENTENCES: 143
• GENERAL OBSERVATIONS NOUNS: 152
• COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES: 159
• ADJECTIVE FORMS OF VERBS: 165
• WHICH ONE OF TWO?: 171
• PRONOUNS PERSONAL AND REFLEXIVE: 177
• ŪNUS DUO AND TRES: 184
• PRESENT INDICATIVE FORMS OF ALL CLASSES: 191
• INDIRECT STATEMENTS QUESTIONS ETC: 199
• CLAUSES OF RESULT: 205
• USES OF THE GERUNDIVE AND SUPINE: 211
• ACTIVE PASSIVE AND DEPONENT FORMS: 218
• GENERAL OBSERVATIONS VERBS: 261
• USE OF COMPOUND VERBS: 267
• SENTENCEBUILDING: 276
• VOCABULARY: 315
• INDEX: 345

Popular passages

Page 117 - A syllable is long if it contains a long vowel or a diphthong: do-mom, cau-tus.

Page 115 - A Latin word has as many syllables as it has vowels or diphthongs (ae, au, oe, ei, eu, ui).

Page 143 - A predicate noun denotes the same person or thing as the subject.

Page 99 - The place of interview. 43. Planitiës erat magna et in eä tumulus terrënus satis grandis. Hic locus aequo ferë ю spatiö ab castrîs Ariovistï et Caesaris aberat.

Page 220 - Erimus, we will be Eritis, you will be Erunt, they will be Second.

Page 185 - Septimus octävus nönus decimus undecimus duodecimus tertius decimus quärtus decimus quintus decimus sextus decimus Septimus...

Page 37 - Id. ad XV. Kal. ad XIV. Kal. ad XII. Kal, ad XI. Kal. ad X. Kal. ad IX. Kal. ad VIII.

Page 115 - A vowel is shortened before final m and t, and before final 1 and r, except in a few monosyllables, as pär, söl.

Page 333 - ... circle, round, orbit; orbis terrarum the circle of the lands ie the world ördo, -inis m.

Page 97 - Româno non praescrïberet, quem ad modum suo iure uterëtur, non oportëre së a Caesare in suo iure impedirï.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Latin reader: nature study and easy stories for sight reading during the first year in Latin
• Author: Alphaeus Bruce Reynolds
• Publisher: D. C. Heath & Company, 1918
• Length: 349 pages