SECOND BOOK IN LATIN; SYNTAX, AND READING LESSONS IN PROSE, LATIN READER. WITH IMITATIVE EXERCISES AND A VOCABULARY. BY JOHN M'CLINTOCK, D.D., LATE PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES IN DICKINSON COLLEGE. HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 329 AND 331 PEARL STREET, FRANKLIN SQUARE. 1853. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand HARPER & BROTHERS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District PREFACE. THIS volume is designed as a complement to the "First Book in Latin," published some time ago. The two together will be found, it is hoped, to constitute a sufficient Grammar, Reader, and Exercise-Book for elementary instruction. The present work contains, first, the SYNTAX as given in the "First Book," with several additions. It is repeated here for the convenience of students, and also to meet the views of such teachers as may wish to use this book without the other. The READING LESSONS are taken wholly from Cæsar and Cicero. No other writers (unless, perhaps, Nepos) should be used with beginners in Latin. A glance at the order of the extracts will show the principles on which the selection and arrangement have been made. After the NOTES follow IMITATIVE EXERCISES-perhaps the best kind of exercises on which a student can be employed. The number here given is not large, but the teacher can multiply them, on the same plan, to any desirable extent. In preparing this volume, free use has been made of KLAIBER'S "Lateinische Chrestomathie," of KRAFT'S "Chrestomathia Ciceroniana," of MEIRING'S "Memo |