BY C. D. CLEVELAND, A. M. LATE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN THE PHILADELPHIA: WILLIAM MARSHALL & CO. EducT 918.36.120 Feb. 27, 1933 Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1836, by W. MARSHALL & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. WILLIAM STAVELY, PRINTER, PREFACE. A PREFACE is not necessary to set forth the merits of Adam's Latin Grammar. Such as it is, it is known to almost every scholar in our country, from that critical inspection which is the result of constant use. Such an extended circulation would argue, what is believed to be the fact, that, as a manual, it is the best accessible to the English student. But good as it is, all acknowledge that it might be better. Whether the present editor has made it so, the public will of course decide. It only remains to state some of the most important alterations and additions that have been made in the present edition. 1. The lists of regular NOUNS of the first, and second, and fourth declensions, and of regular ADJECTIVES of the first and second declension, have been thrown out altogether, as entirely useless, and the space which they would have occupied has been filled with other lists presenting some peculiarities. See lists 1, 2, 3 and 4 on pages 19 and 20: the lists of Irregular Nouns on pages 48, 49, 50, and 51: the lists of Defective Nouns, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, on pages 60, 61, and 62, which have been much enlarged; and lists 11, 12, 13, 14, on pages 63 and 64, which are entirely new; and the list of Irregular and Unusual Comparisons, on page 81. 2. The remarks on Gender, on page 17, have been remodelled; and those on the Cases, (page 21) are entirely new. See also the end of Exc. 3, on page 23-Exc. 5, on page 26-the declension of Deus, in full, on page 27-and three of the paragraphs on page 54.-A Synopsis of the Five Declensions has been given on page 55; and the lists 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Nouns |