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... same sort of graduated scale as the English Grammar . Passages out of the best Latin Poets are gradually built up into their perfect shape . The few words altered , or inserted as the passages go on , are printed in Italics . It is ...
... same sort of graduated scale as the English Grammar . Passages out of the best Latin Poets are gradually built up into their perfect shape . The few words altered , or inserted as the passages go on , are printed in Italics . It is ...
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... same in all languages , though it leads to very different results in Latin and in English . That principle is , the putting the most forcible and important idea first , and letting the rest follow in order of importance . Nothing can be ...
... same in all languages , though it leads to very different results in Latin and in English . That principle is , the putting the most forcible and important idea first , and letting the rest follow in order of importance . Nothing can be ...
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... same time as the other . The Pluperfect Tense denotes that a Past Action has entirely been finished . The Golden Age . Aurea prima - est ætas , hæc vindice nullo Sponte sua , sine lege fidem rectumque colebat , Pœna metusque aberant ...
... same time as the other . The Pluperfect Tense denotes that a Past Action has entirely been finished . The Golden Age . Aurea prima - est ætas , hæc vindice nullo Sponte sua , sine lege fidem rectumque colebat , Pœna metusque aberant ...
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... same case as its verb . The Steersman Overboard . At senior , madidaque fluens in veste Menætes Summa petit scopuli , siccaque in rupe resedit . Illum et labentem Teucri , et risere natantem , Et saltos rident revomentem pectore fluctus ...
... same case as its verb . The Steersman Overboard . At senior , madidaque fluens in veste Menætes Summa petit scopuli , siccaque in rupe resedit . Illum et labentem Teucri , et risere natantem , Et saltos rident revomentem pectore fluctus ...
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... the Active voice expresses what we or others do . The Passive Verb follows the same laws of construction as the Active Verb . 1 Gallicus canis , a greyhound . The Flood . Madidis Notus evolat alis , Terribilem picea 48 THE PARTICIPLE .
... the Active voice expresses what we or others do . The Passive Verb follows the same laws of construction as the Active Verb . 1 Gallicus canis , a greyhound . The Flood . Madidis Notus evolat alis , Terribilem picea 48 THE PARTICIPLE .
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