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 CompositionD. Appleton and Company, 1869 - 162 pages |
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Ablative according to Rule Accusative Active adjective adverb advised agrees ārě army ātŭm audītus āvī blamed boys called Case-Endings citizens Class Comparative CONJUGATION consul crown Dative declension declined denoting endings erat example EXERCISE feminine follows fuit FUTURE gender Genitive GERUND give hear heard IMPERFECT INDICATIVE INDICATIVE MOOD instructed Interrogative Italy king laws lead letters loved masculine meaning monitus MOOD Nominative noun obeyed object observe orator PARSING PARTICIPLE Passive PERF PERFECT person PLUPERFECT PLURAL praised precedes Predicate prep preposition PRES PRESENT PRINCIPAL Pronouns puer pupil qualifies Quis recti rectus Roman sentence Servius short sing SINGULAR soldiers sometimes sound stem SUBJUNCTIVE sunt syllables tense terrified thing THIRD thou Translate into English Translate into Latin urbs verb virtue Vocabulary VOICE vowel
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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,...