An Introductory Latin Book: Intended as an Elementary Drill-book, on the Inflections and Principles of the Language, and as an Introduction to the Author's Grammar, Reader, and Latin Composition

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D. Appleton and Company, 1869 - 162 pages

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Page 9 - 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 6 - In the pronunciation of Latin, every word has as many syllables as it has vowels and diphthongs ; thus the Latin words, more, vice, acute, and persuade, are pronounced, not as the same words are in English, but with their vowel sounds all heard in separate syllables ; thus, more, vi-ce, a-cu-te, per-sua-de.
Page 141 - Ad, adversus (adversum), ante, apud, circa, circum, circiter, cis, citrS, contra, erga, extra, Infra, inter, intra, juxta, ob, penes, per, pone, post, praeter, prope, propter, secundum, supra, trans, ultra, versus : Ad urbem, to the city.
Page 95 - ... often hundreds of miles away from where most people actually live — in national parks, national seashores, and wilderness areas. The emphasis, especially in the Netherlands, on developing ecological networks — an integrated coherent strategy for protecting and restoring natural landscapes — is one of the most important lessons to be learned. In the Netherlands, it begins at the national scale and cascades down to the regional and municipal levels, with each higher level providing a coherent...
Page 49 - GERUND, — which gives the meaning of the verb in the form of a verbal noun of the second declension, used only in the genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative singular. It corresponds to the English participial noun in ING : amandi, of loving ; amandi causa, for the sake of loving.
Page 54 - ... in the First, Second, or Third Person, according as the subject is in the first, second, or third person. Thus know in " I know him well " is in the first person and in the singular number, because its subject / is the singular of the pronoun of the first person ; comes in " Night comes swiftly on " is in the third person and in the singular number, because its subject night is in that person and number. The verb in English has only a few forms left which indicate number and person ; the rule,...

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