WITH EXERCISES. BY REV. A. C. CLAPIN, M.A. ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND BACHELIER-ÈS-LETTRES OF THE ASSISTANT MASTER AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL. LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 305. 1883. g. д 198. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. FRENCH PRIMER for Junior Forms in Public Schools and Freparatory Schools, with Exercises and Vocabulary. 5th edition. 18. FRENCH GRAMMAR for Public Schools, with Exercises, a Reader and Vocabulary. Ninth Edition. 2s. 6d. PRIMER OF FRENCH PHILOLOGY for Public Schools, with Exercises and an Etymological Vocabulary. 2nd edition. 1s. GERMAN GRAMMAR for Public Schools, with Exercises, Reader and Vocabulary, Second Edition. 2s. 6d. PREFACE. THIS little book is intended to meet the requirements, not so much of Beginners in Preparatory Schools, as of that large and ever-growing class of pupils whose aim is to learn to read a Latin author rather than to become proficient in Latin composition, i.e. whose object is to pass the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations rather than to learn to write Latin verses or elegant Latin prose. It is hoped, however, that the clearness and symmetry which characterise the arrangement of the matter in this book will render it acceptable to many schools, as a suitable stepping stone to more complete treatises. The Syntax (compiled chiefly from Notes on Latin Grammar by A. M. Curteis, M.A., and the Rev. O. W. Tancock, M.A., Head-master of Norwich Grammar School) will be found of great service, inasmuch as it gives a very clear view of the use of Cases, in the Latin Declensions. Case terminations or Suffixes of various forms originally expressed all the circumstances of possession, location, motion to or from, etc., which, later, have been further defined by the help of prepositions; what we call now "Locative Genitives are instances in point (see note, p. 34). In this sketch of Latin Syntax the Prepositions are considered, not as governing cases, but as defining the nature of the particular abl. or acc. into which |