First Latin Book: With Primer of Roman History

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H. Holt and Company, 1926 - 480 pages
 

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Page 274 - I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Page 288 - I do not like thee, Dr. Fell ; The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Dr. Fell," who rudely called Hobbes " irritabile illud ct vanissimum Malmsburiense animal.
Page 351 - Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex toto corde tuo, et in tota anima tua, et in tota mente tua. Hoc est maximum et primum mandatum. Secundum autem simile est huic : Diliges proximum tuum, sicut teipsum. In his duobus mandatis universa lex pendet, et prophetae.
Page 408 - Surge age, nate dea, primisque cadentibus astris lunoni fer rite preces iramque minasque 60 supplicibus supera votis. Mihi victor honorem persolves. Ego sum pleno quem flumine cernis stringentem ripas et pinguia culta secantem, caeruleus Thybris, caelo gratissimus amnis. Hie mihi magna domus, celsis caput urbibus, exit.
Page 277 - Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent important, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
Page 467 - AD (Anno Domini.) In the year of our Lord. Ad lib (Ad libitum.) At pleasure.
Page 408 - Aeneas, tristi turbatus pectora bello, procubuit seramque dedit per membra quietem. 30 huic deus ipse loci fluvio Tiberinus amoeno populeas inter senior se attollere frondes visus (eum tenuis glauco velabat amictu...
Page 264 - 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 14 - O Roma nobilis, orbis et domina, Cunctarum urbium excellentissima, Roseo martyrum sanguine rubea, Albis et virginum liliis candida: Salutem dicimus tibi per omnia Te benedicimus, salve per saecula.
Page 308 - Pliny,' as having the twofaced head of Janus on one side, and the prow of a ship on the other (whence the expression used by Roman boys in tossing up, capita out navim').

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