BY THE SAME AUTHOR New Edition, revised. Crown 8vo. First Latin Writer. 3s. 6d. Comprising Accidence, the Easier Rules of Syntax illustrated by copious Examples, and progressive Exercises in Elementary Latin Prose, with Vocabularies. Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d. First Latin Exercises. Being the Exercises, with Syntax Rules and Vocabularies, "First Latin Writer." from a A Second Latin Writer. Containing hints on writing Latin Prose, with graduated continuous Exercises. Easy Latin Stories for Beginners. With Vocabularies and Notes. Forming a First Latin RIVINGTONS London Orford Cambridge [C-126.] SELECTIONS FROM CAESAR THE GALLIC WAR BY G. L. BENNETT, M.A. HEAD-MASTER OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, PLYMOUTH BIBLIOTHE OCT 80 BODLEIAN RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON Oxford and Cambridge MDCCCLXXX 294. g. 57 g.57. PREFACE In the opinion of very many competent teachers, Caesar is the best author for boys to attempt after they have learnt some grammar and done some little translation in an easy reading-book. The Latin is perfect, the style easy, the narrative interesting. The first thing is to get the boys to translate into intelligible English; the next, to teach them the logical structure of the language. This can only be done by analysis of sentences. Every sentence in the lesson should be analyzed. The boys who read Caesar can do this, and will also take an interest in the history if it is made easy for them. For such boys exhaustive notes on Caesar's strategy and tactics, with elaborate maps of battle-fields, are perfectly useless. The aim of this little book is thoroughly unpretentious. I have simply selected a number of chapters sufficient to give an idea of the whole of Caesar's government of Gaul. The text is divided into separate campaigns or accounts of tribes, with short headings to each chapter, to make their connection obvious. The Notes are not intended to take the place of grammar or |
