Manual Latin GrammarEdwin Ginn, 1868 - 127 pages |
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... Verb - forms will be found not only a material help to the learner by its compactness , clear- ness , and easiness of reference ; but to have the spe- cial benefit of keeping distinctly in view the point ( which teachers so often fail ...
... Verb - forms will be found not only a material help to the learner by its compactness , clear- ness , and easiness of reference ; but to have the spe- cial benefit of keeping distinctly in view the point ( which teachers so often fail ...
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... Verbs 40 36. Derivative Verbs 41 volo , nolo , malo 37. Irregular Verbs . fero , edo , eo , facio , queo 38. Defective Verbs , coepi , aio , inquam , fari , salve , & c . 39. Impersonal Verbs 41 41 42 43 • 43 40. Periphrastic Forms . 41 ...
... Verbs 40 36. Derivative Verbs 41 volo , nolo , malo 37. Irregular Verbs . fero , edo , eo , facio , queo 38. Defective Verbs , coepi , aio , inquam , fari , salve , & c . 39. Impersonal Verbs 41 41 42 43 • 43 40. Periphrastic Forms . 41 ...
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... Verbs . II . RULES OF GOVERNMENT . PAGE 53 3588 53 54 57 58 50. Genitive 51. Dative . 59 63 52. Accusative 53 ... VERB . 77 17 80 81 84 85 · 86 87 88 89 90 91 95 96 96 71. Questions . 98 72. Participles 99 73. Gerund and Gerundive 99 74 ...
... Verbs . II . RULES OF GOVERNMENT . PAGE 53 3588 53 54 57 58 50. Genitive 51. Dative . 59 63 52. Accusative 53 ... VERB . 77 17 80 81 84 85 · 86 87 88 89 90 91 95 96 96 71. Questions . 98 72. Participles 99 73. Gerund and Gerundive 99 74 ...
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... verbs , especially those express- ing emotion ; as , patris ejus ǎmīcus misĕrētur mei , his father's friend pities me . 3. DATIVE ( to or for ) , generally used for the indirect object after a verb or adjective : as , dědit mihi ensem ...
... verbs , especially those express- ing emotion ; as , patris ejus ǎmīcus misĕrētur mei , his father's friend pities me . 3. DATIVE ( to or for ) , generally used for the indirect object after a verb or adjective : as , dědit mihi ensem ...
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... verbs and pre- positions : as , In hortō lūdēbāmus et cultellō mē laesit , we were playing in the garden and he hurt me with a knife . All , excepting the nominative and vocative , are often called Oblique cases . 7. Some grammarians ...
... verbs and pre- positions : as , In hortō lūdēbāmus et cultellō mē laesit , we were playing in the garden and he hurt me with a knife . All , excepting the nominative and vocative , are often called Oblique cases . 7. Some grammarians ...
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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.