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ablative accusative active voice adjectives adverbs amatūrus au-di-tus Cæs Cæsar cæsura called catalectic clause commonly compounds change consonant cùm dactylic dative declined denoting deponent verbs derived ĕre expressed facio feminine fourth conjugation fuit future gender genitive genitive plural gerund Greek nouns hæc iambic imperative IMPERATIVE MOOD imperfect increment indicative infinitive īvi Latin loved masculine mihi MOOD neque neuter neuter verbs nihil nominative NOTE occurs omitted opus Ovid passive voice penult Perf perfect participles person Plaut Plin Plup pluperfect plur præ predicate preposition Pres present pronouns quæ quàm quid Quis quod rec'-tus REMARK Sall second root short signifying singular sometimes spondee subjunctive SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD sunt supine syllable tenses termination third conjugation third declension third root tibi tive trimeter trochee verse Virg vocative vowel words
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Page 1 - A, a; B, b; C, c ; D, d; E, e ; F, f; G, g; H, h; I, i; J, j; K, k ; L, 1; M, m ; N, n...
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Page 63 - ... to the greater; thus, IV. Four. V. Five. VI. Six. IX. Nine. X. Ten. XI. Eleven. XL. Forty. L. Fifty. LX. Sixty. XC. Ninety. C. A hundred. CX. A hundred and ten.
Page 192 - The name of a town in which any thing is said to be, or to be done, if of the first or second declension and singular number, is put in the genitive ; as, Habitat Millti, He lives at Miletus.
Page 98 - Jmay have been loved, a-ma'-tus sis or fu'-e-ris, thou mayst have been loved, a-ma'-tus sit or fu'-e-rit, he may have been loved ; P. a-ma'-ti si'-mus or fu-er'-I-mus, we may have been loved, a-ma'-ti si'-tis or fu-er'-I-tis, ye may have been loved, VERBS.
Page 38 - Those which vary in gender are called heterogeneous; those which vary in declension are called heteroclites.
Page 178 - 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 139 - Impersonal verbs are those which are used only in the third person singular, and do not admit of a personal subject. 1. Their English is generally preceded by the pronoun it, especially in the active voice ; as, delectat, it delights ; decet, it becomes ; contingit, it happens ; evenit, it happens ; scribltur, it is written, &c.
Page 37 - Dies, a day, is masculine or feminine in the singular, and always masculine in the plural; meridies, mid-day, is masculine only.
Page 302 - The Roman Calendar agreed with our own, in the number of months, and of the days in each ; but instead of reckoning in an uninterrupted series, from the first to the thirty-first, they had three points from which their days were counted. 1. The Calends or Kalends, which were always the first day of the month.