A Complete Latin Course for the First Year

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Appleton, 1889 - 332 pages

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Page 79 - DURATION OF TIME and EXTENT OF SPACE are expressed by the Accusative : Romulus septem et triginta regnavit annos, Romulus reigned thirtyseven YEARS.
Page 219 - Vu. feome verbs of ASKING, DEMANDING, TEACHING, and CONCEALING admit two Accusatives — one of the person and the other of the thing (374) : Me sententiam rogavit, he asked me my opinion.
Page 16 - NUMBER. 44. The Latin, like the English, has three persons and two numbers. The first person denotes the speaker ; the second, the person spoken to ; the third, the person spoken of. The singular number denotes one, the plural more than one.
Page 192 - Id hoc facilius eis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur : una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit ; altera ex parte monte lura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios ; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.
Page 88 - The case of the pronoun is determined by the construction of the clause in which it stands, and not by the case of its antecedent. Thus in these examples, though the antecedents are all in the Nominative, the pronouns quem, quam, and quos are all in the Accusative as Direct Objects.

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