Manual Latin GrammarEdwin Ginn, 1868 - 127 pages |
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... called the " Dative of Place . " The fact we wish to recognize in the structure of the lan- guage is one which all grammarians admit ; and to accept it will be to many persons a real relief from the old arbitrary and unintelligible rule ...
... called the " Dative of Place . " The fact we wish to recognize in the structure of the lan- guage is one which all grammarians admit ; and to accept it will be to many persons a real relief from the old arbitrary and unintelligible rule ...
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... called elision . c and g are made soft before e , i , y , and the diphthongs ae , eu , oe ,; ch is always like k ; es and ( in plural cases ) os , are pronounced as in disease , morose . The Roman pronunciation of the Vowels was no ...
... called elision . c and g are made soft before e , i , y , and the diphthongs ae , eu , oe ,; ch is always like k ; es and ( in plural cases ) os , are pronounced as in disease , morose . The Roman pronunciation of the Vowels was no ...
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... called the Root or Stem . When a primitive form , common to Latin with other languages , it is always called the Root : thus the root of fug a , flight , is found in the English fug- itive . 3. In Latin , Nouns , Adjectives , Pronouns ...
... called the Root or Stem . When a primitive form , common to Latin with other languages , it is always called the Root : thus the root of fug a , flight , is found in the English fug- itive . 3. In Latin , Nouns , Adjectives , Pronouns ...
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... called Epicene . 7. CASE . There are in Latin six Cases ; namely , — 1. NOMINATIVE , used as the subject of a direct proposition : as , pătĕr meus ǎdest , my father is here . 2. GENITIVE ( of ) , generally denoting origin or possession ...
... called Epicene . 7. CASE . There are in Latin six Cases ; namely , — 1. NOMINATIVE , used as the subject of a direct proposition : as , pătĕr meus ǎdest , my father is here . 2. GENITIVE ( of ) , generally denoting origin or possession ...
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... called Oblique cases . 7. Some grammarians reckon also a Locative case , signifying the place where it is generally the same in form with the Dative , and may be called the Dative of Place : as , Rōmae věl Athēnīs essě vělim , I should ...
... called Oblique cases . 7. Some grammarians reckon also a Locative case , signifying the place where it is generally the same in form with the Dative , and may be called the Dative of Place : as , Rōmae věl Athēnīs essě vělim , I should ...
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ablative accented adjectives adverbs apodosis apposition Cæs Cæsar Cæsura called castra causā clause comit Conditional Sentences conjugation consonant curr Dactylic dative denote ending English ēri especially esset express exsul feminine followed FUTURE PERFECT gender genitive genitive plural Gerund haec Hexameter hiem Iambic Dimeter ibus Imperative indicative infinitive inflected judic lapid Latin libr mihi Mute neuter nominative nouns Oratio Obliqua ōrum participle passive Penult PERF person Pluperfect PLUR poetry prepositions present pronouns quae quam quid quod relative remig Rosc rules sentence sestertii short sing singular sometimes spondee star stell ae SUBJ subjunctive sunt superlative Supine syllable SYNTAX take the subjunctive third declension tion tive Trimeter Trochee verbs verse Virg vowel words
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Page 104 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 3 - Words of more than two syllables are accented on the Penult, if that is long: as, Smi"cus, friend ; if it is short or common, then on the Antepenult : as, do'minus, a'lacris.
Page 11 - Feminine are nouns in -do, -go, -io, -as, -es, -is, -us, -ys, -x, and in -s when preceded by a consonant. c. Neuter are all others; namely, nouns in -a, -e, -i, -y, -c, -1, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -us. FOURTH DECLENSION 29.
Page 108 - A noun in the plural is said to increase, when in any case it has more syllables than the genitive singular ; as, gener, generi, generorum.
Page 14 - ADJECTIVES are either of the first and second declension, or of the third only...
Page 106 - A syllable ending in a short vowel before a mute, followed by 1 or r, is common (13) : teni-brae, darkness. In early Latin it is regularly short ; so, too, when the mute and liquid begin a word.
Page 44 - The positive is formed from adjectives of the first and second declensions by adding -e to the base; as latus, wide...
Page 5 - Vocative is always the same with the Nominative, except in the singular of nouns in us of the second declension.
Page 115 - HEXAMETEB. 1100. This is the most common of all Greek verses, being the established measure for epic, didactic, and bucolic poetry. It consists of six feet, of which the last is always a spondee.* Each of the others may be at pleasure a dactyl or a spondee, but the dactyl prevails ; especially in the fifth place, where hardly one line in twenty has the spondee (spondaic verse, see example с below). The third foot is almost always divided by a caesura, and this is usually the principal caesura...
Page 54 - Adjectives, Adjective Pronouns, and Participles agree with their nouns in Gender, Number, and Case.