A FIRST LATIN LATIN READER BY THE REV. T. J. NUNNS, M. A. FORMERLY SCHOLAR of St. JOHN'S COLLEGE, cambridge. Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXIV [All rights reserved] PREFACE. IN this book, which is the first of a graduated series of Readers intended to lead up to a wider selection from Latin Writers, and to the works of the Writers themselves, the aim has been to lay the foundation of a boy's classical studies by teaching him the construction of a Simple Sentence. It has been thought best to leave the Relative, with all else that belongs to a Complex Sentence, for a Second Reader. And it is hoped. that by this means the clearness of thought, and accuracy of expression, which it is one object of classical education to develope, may be best attained. The books referred to are the Public School Latin Primer (L. P.), and Kennedy's Child's Latin Accidence (C. L. A.), the latter being a book which the author has found more suitable for beginners than the Primer. The author wishes to express his very great obligation to the Rev. R. Cowley Powles for assistance most kindly given in the preparation of this book. CORDWALLES, MAIDENHEAD, FIRST LATIN READER. ALL WORDS belong to one or other of the following eight classes, or kinds, 1. Substantives. 4. Verbs. 5. Adverbs. 6. Prepositions. 8. Interjections. In learning a language grammatically, one of the first things is to know to which of these classes each word belongs, or, in other words, what part of speech it is. The following remarks will help you in this : 1. Dog, Tree, Asia, Alexander, Honour, etc., and all such Names of persons or things, are called SUBSTANTIVES. 2. Good, Young, Northern, Great, High, etc., and all such Names of qualities belonging to Substantives, are called ADJECTIVES. 3. I, Thou, He, My, Their, Who, etc., and all words used like these instead of Nouns1, are called PRONOUNS. 1 Substantives are sometimes called Nouns-Substantive, and Adjectives Nouns-Adjective; sometimes again the word Noun is used to mean a Substantive, sometimes (as here) to include both Substantive and Adjective. FIRST LATIN READER. B |