First Latin: With Collateral Reading

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Allyn and Bacon, 1926 - Latin language - 523 pages
 

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Page 380 - A relative pronoun agrees with its antecedent in gender, number, and person, but its case is determined by its use in the clause in which it stands: Puer quem in schola vidisti domum iit.
Page 116 - Roman ! these shall be thy arts ; to impose terms of peace, to spare the humbled, and crush the proud stubborn foes.
Page 348 - 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 309 - Rome, Rome alone has found the spell to charm The tribes that bowed beneath her conquering arm, Has given one name to the whole human race, And clasped and sheltered them in fond embrace ; Mother, not mistress, called her foe her son, And by soft ties made distant countries one. This to her peaceful sceptre all men owe, That through the nations, wheresoe'er we go, Strangers, we find a fatherland ; our home We change at will.
Page 424 - Hannonem, Poenorum ducem, apud Agrigentum cepit; quadraginta civitates in deditionem accepit, viginti sex expugnavit. Ita omni Sicilia recepta, cum ingenti gloria Romam regressus est. 8. Interea' in Hispaniam,' ubi duo Scipiones ab Hasdrubale interfecti erant, missus est P.
Page xv - THE ALPHABET 1. The Latin alphabet is the same as the English except that it has no j or w.
Page 180 - Type 2 (with definitions) voco, vocare, vocavl, vocation — a callimj, occupation. vocatus — call. vocational — pertaining to a vocation or calling. vocal — pertaining to voice. evoke — call out. convoke — call together. vocative — case of calling, case of address. revoke — call back, remand. invoke — call upon, ask for. vociferous — with large calling power, with loud tones. invocation — a calling upon, a prayer. Type...
Page xxi - Under the second guiding principle, ie, the ability to understand and use accurately English words of Latin origin, there should be fostered the ability to recognize English words which are identical with the Latin. Francois, also, gives an interesting presentation of this work : Identical words — 1. When Galba takes up the study of English words, he is surprised and delighted to find how like the Latin many of them are. Not only are more than half our English words derived from Latin, but many...
Page 426 - Equitatus cum rege fugit. Urbes Macedoniae omnes, quas rex tenuerat, Romanis se dediderunt. Ipse Perseus ab amicis desertus in Paulli potestatem venit. Hie, multis etiam aliis rebus gestis, cum ingenti pompa Romam rediit in nave Persei, inusitatae magnitudinis ; nam sedecim remorum ordines habuisse dicitur.
Page 367 - F. 463 hi hae haec horum harum horum his his his hos has haec his his his SINGULAR MF N, NOM.

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