Handbook of Latin Inscriptions: Illustrating the History of the Language (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Handbook of Latin Inscriptions: Illustrating the History of the Language

While writing my Short Historical Latin Grammar, I often Wished that there was a suitable collection of specimens of Latin, chronologically arranged, to which the student might be referred. The proposal of Messrs. Allyn and Bacon, that a Handbook of Latin Inscriptions illustrative of the history of the language should be compiled for their educational series, was therefore very welcome. From merely turning over the pages of a book of this kind one will sometimes learn more than from the most elaborate array of rules, just as the successive pictures of a panorama are often more instructive than the showman's lecture.

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