LATIN HELPS FOR STUDENTS A Series of Extracts from the best known Authors TOGETHER WITH EXAMINATION PAPERS, CLASSIFIED QUESTIONS ON THE PECULIARITIES FOR TRANSLATION AND RE-TRANSLATION, A CHAPTER ON ETYMOLOGY, ETC. BY W. T. JEFFCOTT (LONDON UNIVERSITY) VICE-PRINCIPAL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, MARGATE; AND G. J. TOSSELL (LONDON UNIVERSITY) SENIOR ASSISTANT-MASTER IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, MARGATE Joint Editors of The French Newspaper Reader' 'The German Newspaper Reader LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, 1883 AND All rights reserved 305. g. 184. PREFACE. THE appearance of a new Latin Reader requires a word of explanation. It is not that the Editors pretend to present to the readers of the book any new or specially good selection from the Classics : but they venture to hope that the volume will be a most useful classbook to have as a companion to the Latin Grammar and whatever book may be used in the class for translation. It not only contains a very good selection of readings from the best authors, but it also includes examination papers on the accidence and the easier rules of syntax; classified questions on the uses, meaning and government of various parts of speech; a collection of sentences each containing some grammatical fault to be corrected by the pupil; also a number of homonyms, and useful phrases to be committed to memory; a collection of sentences introducing various grammatical |