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Declension of Substantives

and Comparison of Adjectives 11

of Pronouns

Conjugation of the Verb Sum

of Regular Verbs

Inflections of the Parts of Speech.

Page.

Page.

18

19

20

10 Second Conjugation, Active Voice

Passive Voice

12 Third Conjugation, Active Voice

Passive Voice

16-23 Fourth Conjugation, Active Voice

16

Passive Voice 23

13

21

22

17

First Conjugation, Active Voice
Passive Voice

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PART. I.

Lucius Lucullus

Pompeius Magnus

Of Letters
Vowels
Consonants

Rule 1, and Exercises
Rules, from 2 to 6 inclusive, and Ex-

ercises

7 to 30 inclusive, and Ex-
ercises

Of the Parts of Speech

Of Nouns or Substantives

Declension of Nouns

Gender of Nouns

First Declension

Second Declension

Third Declension

Fourth Declension

Fifth Declension

Irregular Nouns

Variable Nouns

Defective Nouns

Exercises adapted to the Conjugation

of Regular Verbs

Rules and Exercises.

10, 11

16-23

Excerpta Latinè.

De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ 28-44 | De Viris Julius Cæsar

28

28

30

Cato Uticensis

Cicero

Cæsar Augustus

32 Sallustii Catilina

32 E. Ciceronis Orationibus

Ex Ovidii Operibus

Virgilii Operibus

Horatii Operibus

Regulus

Fabius Maximus
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Nasica
Paulus Æmilius

Tiberius Gracchus and Caius

Gracchus

12, 13

Rules 31 to 54 inclusive, and Ex-
ercises
55 to 69 inclusive, and Ex-
ercises.

26, 27
14, 15 Condensed Views of all the Rules 28-44

32

34
34

PART II.

Redundant Nouns

Division of Nouns according to

their signification and derivation

Of Adjectives

Declension of Adjectives

Numeral Adjectives

Comparison of Adjectives

67 Of Diphthongs

67

67

Syllables

Words

68 Of Pronouns

69 Of Simple Pronouns

69 Compound Pronouns

70 Of Verbs

72

73

74

84

85

85

85

85

88

89

89

90

92

94

Conjugation of Verbs

Formation of Verbs

First Conjugation

Second Conjugation

Third Conjugation

Fourth Conjugation

Deponent and Common Verbs

Irregular Verb

Defective Verbs

Impersonal Verbs

Redundant Verbs

Obsolete Conjugation

Derivation and Composition of

Verbs

.

100

Signification of the different Tenses 100

102

103

105

111

111

114

117

117

118

119

95

95

96

97

98

120

Of the Government of Verbs

Government of the Verb, Sum

taken for Habeo

taken for Offero

one Substantive governing another 130

latter of two Substantives

Of the Quantity of Syllables

Of Accent

Of Verse

132

Adjectives governing the Genitive 132

the Dative

Sum, signifying possession, pro-

perty, &c.

133

the Ablative 134 Of Verbs governing two cases

the Genitive

or Ablative 134

134

134

measuring Verses by Scanning

Page.

120

121

Of Prepositions

121 Of Interjections.
Of Conjunctions.

3. SYNTAX.

Compounds of Sum

Of the construction of Comparatives,

when quam is omitted

Construction of Adverbs

Government of Adverbs

Of the Construction of Prepositions

Prepositions governing the Accu-

•

sative

governing the Ablative

·

governing the Accusative or

131 Of the construction of the Infinitive

131 Accusative before the Infinitive

Adjectives taken as Substantives
Opus and Usus signifying need 131 Of the construction of Participles

Of the Government of Adjectives

of Gerunds

of Supines

147

of Circumstances 148

149

Ablative

Of the Construction of Interjections 140

126] Of the construction of Conjunctions

127 Of two or more nouns singular con-

nected by a Conjunction

•

Of Conjunctions governing the sub-

junctive mood

position of ditto

lables

of Final Syllables

of Derivatives and

Compounds

Of Verbs governing one case

the Accusative

the Genitive

the Dative

130

the Ablative

the Accusative or

Genitive

130

·

130 Of a Verb compounded with a Pre-

position

of first and middle Syl-

176

179

Of the Ablative Case Absolute

139 Figures of Rhetoric

4. PROSODY.

175 Of the Different kinds of Verse

Figures in Scanning

Different kinds of Poems

134

135 Of the construction of Passive Verbs

of Impersonal Verbs

135

135

APPENDIX TO SYNTAX.

135

136

137

137 Various Signification and Construction

of Verbs

137

Figures of Syntax

138 Analysis and Translation

Different kinds of Style

the Accusative and Geni-

tive

149

the Accusative and Dative 150

two Accusatives

150

the Accusative and Abla-

tive

Page.

123

152

of the Names of Places 153

154

Of the different kinds of Verse in

Horace and Buchanan

APPENDIX.

124

125

125

140

140

141

142

142

142

143

144

144

145

145

145

146

146

151

151

Combination of Verses in Poems187

156

166

168

169

170

183
185

186

187

. 189

TO INSTRUCTERS.

THE principal design of prefixing these introductory exercises to the Grammar is to relieve the student from the irksome and unprofitable task of committing to memory what he does not understand; to impress the inflections of the parts of speech and the rules of syntax clearly and forcibly on his memory, by exhibiting them in condensed views; and, by furnishing easy exercises adapted to those inflections and rules in detail, to facilitate the labour of translating and parsing.

The following plan of instruction is in conformity with this design.

Commence at page 10th, and read over the declensions of substantives and adjectives, explaining to the pupil the distinctive marks of the different declensions, and the manner in which an adjective agrees with a substantive. Then practise him a short time in translating and parsing a few of the examples under “Exercises,” on page 10th, declining the adjective and substantive, first separately, and then conjointly. This will prepare him to understand, and consequently to commit to memory with facility and pleasure, the general rules relating to the declensions of substantives and adjectives, as contained in the grammar, commencing at page 69. By proceeding in this manner, illustrating each part of speech, and practising the student in parsing it, before he is called upon to commit to memory its Etymology and Syntax, his progress through the grammar will be rendered both pleasing and profitable. His task will be much lighter, and the impression on his memory more permanent, than if he had proceeded in the inverted order, committing what he could not understand, and deferring the exercise of parsing till he had gone through the grammar.

FIRST DECLENSION

Músă, a song, feminine-gender.

SECOND DECLENSION.

N. Dōnům,
G. Dōni,

D. Dōnō,
A. Dōnům,

V. Dōnăm,
A. Dōnō;

DECLENSION.

N. Itěr,
G. Itinĕris,
D. Itinĕri,
A. Itěr,

V. Itěr,
A. Itinĕrě;

DECLENSION.

N. Cōrnů,
G. Cornu,
D. Cornu,
A. Cornu,

V. Cornu,
A. Cornu;

DECLENSION.