Elements of Latin GrammarD. Appleton and Company, 1870 - 156 pages |
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Acatalectic Accusative ACTIVE VOICE adjectives Adverbs advised aegris ǎmandus ǎmāti ǎmātūrus ǎmātus audītus bonus Caes clause compounds Conj CONJUGATION consonant consul Dactyl Dactylic Hexameter Dative declension declined as follows denote endings English ĕrăm ĕris ĕro essě essěm essēmus essent essētis factus feminine follow the analogy fructus fuĕris fuit FUTURE PERFECT gender Genitive Gerund Grammar Greek Greek nouns hear heard IMPERATIVE IMPERFECT INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE ipsī Latin libĕris liběrō loved masc masculine monitus Neut neuters Nominative object PARTICIPLE PASSIVE VOICE PERF Periphrastic person PLUP PLUPERFECT Plur PLURAL Predicate preposition PRES Present Stem PRESENT TENSE Pridie PRINCIPAL Pronouns quae quam quibus quibus quid quis quod quum recti rectus reduplication RULE sentence Sing SINGULAR sometimes Spondee Subjunctive sunt superlative Supine syllable third thou tion tium tristi ūnus urbs verbs Virg vowel
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Page 32 - ... 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 154 - In the astrological system, the day, from sunrise to sunset, and the night, from sunset to sunrise, being each divided into twelve hours, it is plain that the hours of the day and night were never equal except just at the equinoxes. The hours attributed to the planets were of this unequal sort. See Kalendrier de Berg. loc. cit., and our author's treatise on the Astrolabe.
Page 4 - 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 154 - English date ; but it may be convenient also to have the following rule : I. If the day is numbered from the Nones or Ides, subtract the number diminished by one from the number of the day on which the Nones or Ides fall : VIII.
Page 82 - DURATION OF TIME and EXTENT OF SPACE are expressed by the Accusative : Romulus septem et triginta regnavit annos, Romulus reigned thirlytemn years.