Morris and Morgan's Latin Series EDITED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF EDWARD P. MORRIS, L.H.D., PROFESSOR OF LATIN IN YALE UNIVERSITY AND MORRIS H. MORGAN, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY VOLUMES OF THE SERIES Essentials of Latin for Beginners. Henry C. Pearson, Teachers College, New York. A School Latin Grammar. Morris H. Morgan, Harvard Universicy. A First Latin Writer. M. A. Abbott, Groton School. Mather, formerly of Harvard University, and Arthur L. Wheeler, Bryn Mawr College. Caesar. Episodes from the. Gallic and Civil Wars. Maurice W. Mather, formerly of Harvard University. Cicero. Ten Orations and Selected Letters. J. Remsen Bishop, Eastern High School, Detroit, Frederick A. King, Hughes High School, Cincinnati, and Wilbur Helm, Evanston Academy of Northwestern University. Six Orations. Selections from Latin Prose Authors for Sight Reading. Susan Braley Franklin and Ella Catherine Greene, Miss Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr. Selections from Livy. Harry E. Burton, Dartmouth College. Horace. Satires. Edward P. Morris, Yale University. and Epistles, Morris. In one volume. the University of Pennsylvania. Vol. II. Poetry : Pseudo-Vergiliana to Claudianus. Others to be announced later. 760f Copyright, 1899, by HARPER & BROTHERS. All rights reserved. W: P. 13 from the Liboringit A. W. Ryder che PREFACE In planning the present book it has been the aim of the authors to present within two covers all the essential apparatus for the writing of average passages in Latin prose. By including in the Notes on Idiom the requisite body of syntax, stated from the point of view of the student who is to write Latin, they have dispensed with the ordinary system of reference to three or four Latin grammars. They believe that in this way not only much time will be saved, but that the added convenience will produce more accurate results, since both student and teacher may refer instantly to the statement of any of the ordinary principles involved. The addition of the Latin text tends to the same end, and it is hoped that for the exercises contained in this volume the student will rarely find it necessary to refer to anything not included in the volume itself. The book is not intended to teach how to write isolated sentences illustrative of given constructions, but it assumes that the pupil, after a year or more of such practice (the time varying in different schools), is ready to learn the art of writing connected narrative in Latin. Recognizing that, in order to attain perfection in writing any language, good models must be studied, the authors have based their exercises on Caesar, Nepos, and Cicero, such selections from these writers being taken as are usually read in schools. About a page of Latin text serves as a model for each exercise. As the book is not for beginners, the individual exercises have not been made vehicles for teaching any one or two constructions, such as the ablative absolute, purpose, etc.; but the authors have felt at liberty to introduce at any time even the more difficult con |