Gallic War, Book 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1886 |
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adverbial Ædui Æduos Æneid akin to Gr akin to Sans Allobroges Ambarri Aquitani åre āri Ariovistus Arverni atque atum ātus atus sum augmentative āvi bellum Cæsar Cæsarem Casticus castris Comp conj contr copias Edui ejus eorum erat ĕre esset etc.-Pass etiam exercitu facere factum ferre finibus flumen force Galliæ Gallic War Gaul Gerund habere Hæc Harudes Helvetii Helvetiorum hence hostium indecl inter ipse Itum legatos millia minùs missum missus sum mitto neque neut Noricum obsides obsol omnes one's Orgetorix ōrum partem pass passuum perf person pluperf plur Populi Romani posse posset præ prælio prælium prep prob pron propter propterea quòd quæ quàm quid quòd quum Rhenum Roman Sequanis sese sibi sing subj Subst Suevi thing tionis true root undive
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Page iv - Moreover, as an acquaintance with the principles of GRAMMAR, as well as with ETYMOLOGY, is necessary to the understanding of a language, such points of construction as seem to require elucidation are concisely explained under the proper articles, or a reference is simply made to that rule in the Public Schools Latin Primer, or in Parry's Elementary Greek Grammar, which meets the particular difficulty. It occasionally happens, however, that more information is needed than can be gathered from the...
Page iv - ... meaning is always given, within inverted commas, in Roman type, and so much also of each word's history as is needful to bring down its chain of meanings to the especial force, or forces, attaching to it in the particular
Page 5 - Ex eo oppido pons ad Helvetios pertinet. Allobrogibus sese vel persuasuros, quod nondum bono animo in Populum Romanum viderentur, existimabant ; vel vi coacturos, ut per suos fines eos ire paterentur. Omnibus rebus ad profectionem comparatis, diem dicunt, qua die ad ripam Rhodani omnes conveniant : is dies erat ante diem quintum Kalendas Apriles, Lucio Pisone, Aulo Gabinio Consulibus.
Page iii - FOR some long time past it has been widely felt that a reduction in the cost of Classical Works used in schools generally, and more especially in those intended for boys of the middle classes, is at once desirable and not difficult of accomplishment. For the most part only portions of authors are read in the earlier stages of education, and a pupil is taken from one work to another in each successive half-year or term ; so that a book needlessly large and proportionably expensive is laid aside after...