A Latin GrammarGinn, 1903 - 388 pages |
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Ablative Accusative Adjectives Adverbs amātus Aorist Appositive Ariovistus audītus Caesar caesura Cicero Ciceronian Latin compounds Conjugation consonant construction Cpds cum-Clause Dative Declension denoting dependent clauses Descriptive Clause Dumnorix early Latin English erat example expressed faciō Fact follows Future Passive Participle Future Perfect Gaul Gender Genitive Gerund Helvetii idea Imperative Imperfect INDICATIVE SUBJUNCTIVE Indirect Discourse Infinitive Intransitive Verb later Latin Latin long vowel meaning mihi neque Neuter nihil nōn NOTE Noun originally Past Perfect Perf Perfect Passive Participle Periphrastic person or thing Plur poetry poets Predicate Preposition Pres Pronoun quae quam quid quin quō quod rare regularly Relative Clause rēs Romans sentence Sequani Similarly sometimes Subjunctive Substantive Clause suffix sunt syllable tense tive Verr Volitive volō words
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Page 146 - Ei legationi Ariovistus respondit: si quid ipsi a Caesare opus esset, sese ad eum venturum fuisse; si quid ille se velit, illum ad se venire oportere.
Page 269 - per ego ipsa pericula iuro, Te fore, dum nostrum vivet uterque, meam.' 75 Vivimus, et non sum, Theseu, tua, si modo vivit Femina periuri fraude sepulta viri. Me quoque, qua fratrem, mactasses, improbe, clava : Esset, quam dederas, morte soluta fides. Nunc ego non tantum, quae sum passura, recordor, So Sed quaecumque potest ulla relicta pati.
Page 71 - Nom. qui: quae quod qui: quae quae Gen. cuius cuius cuius quo:rum qua:rum quo:rum Dat. cui cui cui quibus quibus quibus Ace.
Page 95 - Plup. amaturus fuissem, / might have been about to love. INFINITIVE. Pres. amaturus esse, to be about to love. Perf. amaturus fuisse, to have been about to love. Passive Periphrastic Conjugation. INDICATIVE. Pres. amandus (-a, -um) sum, / am to be loved, must be loved.
Page 346 - Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 309 - Die mihi quidnam facturus fuerls, si eo tempore censor fuisses. Tell me what you would have done if you had been censor at that time.
Page 283 - Educ tecum etiam omnes tuos, si minus, quam plurimos; purga urbem. Magno me metu liberabis, dum modo inter me atque te murus intersit.
Page 273 - Latini dicuntur scripti inconsiderate ab optimis illis quidem viris, sed non satis eruditis. fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id, quod sentit, polite eloqui non possit.
Page 1 - ALPHABET. 1. THE Latin alphabet is the same as the English, except that it has no W.
Page 60 - Thus: bonus, good melior, better optimus, best malus, bad peior, worse pessimus, worst magnus, great maior, greater maximus, greatest multus, much plus, more , plurimus, most parvus, small minor, smaller minimus, smallest i The definitions given in the list represent the simplest meanings.