A Short, Plain, Comprehensive, Practical Latin Grammar, Comprising All the Rules and Observations Necessary to an Accurate Knowledge of the Latin Classics, Having the Signs of Quantity Affixed to Certain Syllables, to Show Their Right Pronunciation: With an Alphabetical Vocabulary |
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Active verb Adjectives adverbs atque brevis Choriamb compounded conjugation crementum Dact Dative declined denotes DEPONENT VERBS doctus English EXEMPLA fuisse fuit gender Genitive Genitive plural Gerund govern the Ablative govern the Accusative govern the Dative govern the Genitive Græca Græcis Grammar Greek Nouns hæc Iamb illě illi IMPERATIVE MOOD Impersonal verbs INDICATIVE MOOD INFINITIVE MOOD Latin lēnis longă longum loved mihi NEUTER VERBS Nominative Noun Substantive nunc Ovid pār Participle Passive penultimam Perf Perfect Tense Plup Plur poets præ præter PRAXIS preposition Pres quæ quam Quid quis quod rēs RULE Scio semper signifies Sing sometimes Spond Subjunctive Subjunctive mood supine syllable Tense tertia thing Third Declension thou tibi Tiphy tive understood Virg vōs vowel word
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Page ii - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 17 - Radtol (ordinal nnmbers) the first the second the third the fourth the fifth the sixth the seventh the eighth the ninth the tenth the eleventh the twelfth the thirteenth the fourteenth the fifteenth the sixteenth the seventeenth the eighteenth the nineteenth the twentieth the twenty-first...
Page ii - IEVING, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: " A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. By Fray Antonio Agapida. In two volumes.
Page ii - An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Page 99 - When a nominative comes between the relative and the verb, the relative is governed by some word in its own member of the sentence : as, " He who preserves me, to whom I owe my being, whose I am, and whom I serve, is eternal.
Page 113 - Verbs of asking and teaching govern two accusatives, the one of a person, and the other of a thing ; as, Poseímos te pacem, • We beg peace of thee.
Page 108 - Sum used instead of affe.ro (to bring) governs two datives, the one of a person, and the other of a thing ; as, Est mili/, voluptati, It is, or brings, a pleasure to me.
Page 31 - I had been loved, thou hadst been loved, he had been loved ; we had been loved, you had been loved, they had been loved. Future...
Page 94 - OF CONCORD. CONCORD is fourfold. 1 . Of an adjective with a substantive. 2. Of a verb with a nominative. 3. Of a relative with an antecedent. 4. Of a substantive with a substantive. RULE I.
Page 3 - CASES OF NOUNS. Nouns have six cases in each number : the nominative, the genitive, the dative, the accusative, the vocative, and the ablative. The nominative case comes before the verb, and answers to the question, who?