A Complete Latin Course: The First Year, Comprising an Outline of Latin Grammar, and a Series of Progressive Exercises in Reading and Writing Latin, with Frequent Practice in Reading at Sight

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D. Appleton, 1884 - Latin language - 362 pages
 

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Page 193 - Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
Page 14 - AND NUMBER. 44. 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 21 - Voice shows whether the subject acts (Active Voice), or is acted 'upon (Passive Voice). Thus, with the Active Voice,
Page 194 - Id hoc facilius eis persuasit, quod undique loci natura Helvetii continentur : una ex parte flumine Rheno latissimo atque altissimo, qui agrum Helvetium a Germanis dividit ; altera ex parte monte lura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios ; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.
Page iv - The same work will be furnished, when desired, without the Grammatical Outline, under the following title : Progressive Exercises in Reading and Writing Latin, with Frequent Practice in Reading at Sight, intended as a CompanionBook to the author's Latin Grammar.
Page 287 - Hoc proelio facto reliquas copias Helvetiorum ut consequi posset, pontem in Arare faciendum curat, atque ita exercitum traducit.
Page 328 - A breaking in, an attack. IRRUPTION. Is, ea, id. 102, 186. That, this, that one, this one, he, she, it. Iste, a, ud. 102, 186. That of yours, that, that one, he, she, it. Ita, adv. So, in such a way, thus. Italia, ae, /. Italy. Itaque, coiy.
Page 221 - Some verbs of asking and teaching may take two Accusatives, one of the Person, and the other of the Thing (§ 396).

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