A First Latin Course: Comprehending Grammar, Delectus, and Exercise-book, with Vocabularies |
Common terms and phrases
Accusative Adjectives advised Aedui Am-ātus Aquitani āre ātis Aud-itus Caesar Cassivellaunus castris Cicero citizens cives conj Conjugation consul Curabam Dative Deponent Verbs doubt enemy erant erat ēre ĕris ĕro essem esset EXERCISE exhort factum fear fuĕris fuisti Future FUTURE-IMPERFECT FUTURE-IMPERFECT TENSE Gaul Genitive Gerundive habet haec Hannibal hear heard Helvetii hostium IMPERATIVE MOOD Imperfect INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD inis īre Latin Lātus loved magna Masculine mihi milites Mon-ĭtus Nemo Neuter nobis Nouns omnes ōnis ōris orum PARTICIPLES PAST-IMPERFECT PAST-PERFECT TENSE penult Perfect Pericles Plur PRESENT-IMPERFECT TENSE Present-Perfect puer pueri quae quam quid quin quod quum Rec-tus Roman Rome ruled semper Sequani Sing Singular sint soldiers SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Substantives sunt SUPINES syllable things Third Declension thou mayst thou mightst thou wilt tibi urbem urbs ūtis Utrum Verbs vised VOCABULARY vowel
Popular passages
Page 142 - 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 Jura altissimo, qui est inter Sequanos et Helvetios; tertia lacu Lemanno et flumine Rhodano, qui provinciam nostram ab Helvetiis dividit.
Page vii - The main object of this work is to enable a Beginner to fix the Declensions and Conjugations thoroughly in his memory, to learn their usage by constructing simple sentences as soon as he commences the study of the language, and to accumulate gradually a stock of useful words. It presents in one book all that the pupil will require for some time in his study of the language.
Page 147 - Helvetia in quatuor pagos divisa est. Hie pagus Lucium Cassium, consulem, interfecerat, et ejus exercitum sub jugum miserat. Ita, quse pars calamitatem Populo Romano intulerat, ea princeps pcenas persolvit.
Page 47 - Verbs have two NUMBERS, Singular and Plural, and three PERSONS in each number. Latin Verbs are arranged in four classes, called CONJUGATIONS, distinguished by the ending of the Imperfect Infinitive Active ; which in, I.
Page 36 - I shall have been, thou wilt have been, he will have been ; we shall have been, you will have been, they will have been.
Page 2 - Noun. 5. Adverb. 2. Adjective. 6. Preposition. 3. Pronoun. 7. Conjunction. 4. Verb. 8. Interjection.
Page 147 - ... magnopere virtuti tribueret, aut ipsos despiceret : se ita a patribus majoribusque suis didicisse, ut magis virtute quam dolo contenderent, aut insidiis niterentur. Quare ne committeret, ut is locus, ubi constitissent, ex calamitate populi Romani et internecione exercitus nomen caperet, aut memoriam proderet.
Page 153 - Helvetii, cum omnibus suis carris secuti, impedimenta in unum locum contulerunt. Ipsi confertissima acie, rejecto nostro equitatu, phalange facta, sub primam nostram aciem successerunt. Caesar, primum suo, deinde omnium remotis equis, ut spem fugae tolleret, cohortatus suos, proelium commisit.
Page 1 - The letters are divided into Vowels and Consonants. The Vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y. The remaining letters are Consonants.