The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most Approved Grammars Extant, with an Appendix. For the Use of Schools and Colleges

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Pratt, Woodford & Company, 1850 - 324 pagine
 

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Pagina 196 - But if a nominative come between the relative and the verb, the relative will be of that case, which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, usually govern.
Pagina 191 - RULE II. An adjective agrees with its substantive in gender, number, and case; as, Bonus vir, a good man. Bonos viros, good men.
Pagina 298 - Nones, and Ides. The first day of every month was called the Kalends ; the fifth day was called the Nones ; and the thirteenth day was called the Ides ; except in the months of March, May, July, and October, in which the nones fell upon the seventh day, and the ides on the fifteenth. In reckoning the days of their months, they counted backwards. Thus, the first day of January was...
Pagina 226 - Verbs of asking, and teaching, govern two accusatives, the one of a person, and the other of a thing ; as, Poscimus te pacem, We beg peace of thee.
Pagina 182 - A PREPOSITION is a word which shows the relation between a noun or pronoun following it, and some other word in the sentence ; as, " The love OF money.'1'' —
Pagina 50 - ... to the greater; thus, IV. Four. V. Five. VI. Six. IX. Nine. X. Ten. XI. Eleven. XL. Forty. L. Fifty. LX. Sixty. XC. Ninety. C. A hundred. CX. A hundred and ten.
Pagina 294 - Latins often cuts off the vowel at the end of a word, when the next word begins with a vowel; though he does not like the Greeks wholly drop the vowel, but still retains it in writing like the Latins.
Pagina 199 - V. Any Verb may have the same Case after it as before it, when both words refer to the same thing; as, Ego sum discipulus, I am a scholar. Tu vocäris Joannes, Той are named John. ¡lia incldit regina, She walks as a queen.
Pagina 5 - DECLENSION. 1. Nouns of the neuter gender have the Accusative and Vocative like the Nominative, in both numbers; and these cases in the plural end always in a. 2. The Dative and Ablative plural end always alike.
Pagina 255 - V. The gerund in DO of the ablative case is governed by the prepositions a, ab, de, e, ex, or in ; as, POKIUL a peccando absterret, Punishment frightens from sinning.

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