Adam's Latin Grammar: With Some Improvements and the Following Additions: Rules for the Right Pronunciation of the Latin Language; Metrical Key to the Odes of Horace; a List of Latin Authors Arranged According to the Different Ages of Roman Literature; Tables Showing the Value of the Various Coins, Weights and Measures Used Among the Romans |
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ablative adjective adverbs alicui aliquem aliquid aliquo Amātus Auditus Cæs cæsura called castra circum commonly compounds conjugation construed dactyles dative deponent verbs Doctus ejus English ĕris expressed feminine fuisse gender genitive genitive plural gerund govern the accusative govern the dative Greek nouns hæc heard Idus impersonal verbs Indicative Mode INFINITIVE MODE inter joined Latin Lectus likewise loved malè masc masculine mihi neut neuter nihil nominative nouns Ovid participle passive penult Perf person Plaut PLUPERFECT Plur præ preposition Pres preterite pronouns quæ quàm quid quis quod rule Sall scil sentence Sesterces Sestertium Sestertius sibi signifies Sing singular sometimes spondee subjunctive Subjunctive Mode substantive sunt super supine syllable taught tempus tenses thing Thou tibi tive understood urbe verbs verse Virg vowel words
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Page 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 201 - The prepositions in, sub, super, and subter, govern the accusative, when motion to a place is signified; but when motion or rest in a place is signified, in and sub govern the ablative, super and subter either the accusative or ablative.
Page 91 - Shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretells; in the second and third persons, promises, commands, or threatens...
Page 16 - DECLENSION. 1 . Nouns of the neuter gender have the Accusative and Vocative like the Nominative, in both numbers ; and these cases in the plural end always in a. 2. The Dative and Ablative plural end always alike.
Page 213 - If the substantives be of different persons, the verb plural must agree with the first person rather than the second, and with the second rather than the third ; as, Si tu et Tullia, valetis, ego et Cicero valemus, If you and TulUa are well, I and Cicero are well.
Page 184 - Verbs of accusing, condemning, acquitting, and admonishing, govern the accusative of a person, with the genitive of a thing; as, uit mefurtf, He accuses me of theft Meipsum inertia condemno, I condemn myself of laziness.
Page 299 - Tamen is very often and elegantly placed after the first, second, or third word of the clause in which it stands. XIV. Connected words should go together ; that is, they may not be separated from one another by words that are extraneous, and have no relation to them. XV. Cadence. The cadence, or concluding part of a clause or sentence, should very seldom consist of monosyllables. XVI. So far as other rules and perspicuity will allow, in the arrangement and choice of words, when the foregoing ends...
Page 97 - I shall have been loved, thou wilt have been loved, he will have been loved ; we shall have been loved, you will have been loved, they will have been loved.
Page 66 - ADJECTIVES are either of the first and second declension, or of the third only...
Page 209 - COMPOUND SENTENCES. A compound sentence is that which has more than one nominative, or one finite verb. A compound sentence is made up of two or more simple sentences or phrases, and is commonly called a Period.