Manual Latin GrammarEdwin Ginn, 1868 - 127 pages |
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... verse in Virgil , Ovid , Horace , and ( excepting a few lyrical passages ) in the Dramatic writers . For instruction in the difficult art of composition in Latin verse , - should that be thought desirable , or for exhibitions of ...
... verse in Virgil , Ovid , Horace , and ( excepting a few lyrical passages ) in the Dramatic writers . For instruction in the difficult art of composition in Latin verse , - should that be thought desirable , or for exhibitions of ...
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... 88 89 90 91 95 96 96 71. Questions . 98 72. Participles 99 73. Gerund and Gerundive 99 74. Supine . . 101 75. General Rules of Syntax . 76. Arrangement 102 . 103 SECT . PART III . - RULES OF VERSE . CONTENTS . XV SECT.
... 88 89 90 91 95 96 96 71. Questions . 98 72. Participles 99 73. Gerund and Gerundive 99 74. Supine . . 101 75. General Rules of Syntax . 76. Arrangement 102 . 103 SECT . PART III . - RULES OF VERSE . CONTENTS . XV SECT.
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... VERSE . ( PROSODY . ) 77. Rhythm • 78. Quantity . I. General Rules II . Final Syllables III . Penultimate Syllables 79. Feet 80. Scanning 81. Metre 82. Forms of Verse 83. Reckoning of Time 84. Reckoning of Money 85. Roman Prænomens PAGE ...
... VERSE . ( PROSODY . ) 77. Rhythm • 78. Quantity . I. General Rules II . Final Syllables III . Penultimate Syllables 79. Feet 80. Scanning 81. Metre 82. Forms of Verse 83. Reckoning of Time 84. Reckoning of Money 85. Roman Prænomens PAGE ...
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... verse , by the usage 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 ...
... verse , by the usage 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 ...
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... verse . The sign denotes that a vowel is long ; that it is short . A short vowel differs from a long one not in sound but in length ; as in pătĕr , father , mátěr , mother . 4. ACCENT . Words of two syllables are always accented on the ...
... verse . The sign denotes that a vowel is long ; that it is short . A short vowel differs from a long one not in sound but in length ; as in pătĕr , father , mátěr , mother . 4. ACCENT . Words of two syllables are always accented on the ...
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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 ñ 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.