Elisha Jones

First Lessons in Latin Elisha Jones

These Lessons are intended as a practical drill-book for the beginner in Latin. They aim to make him familiar with the ordinary Latin inflections and the simpler principles of Latin syntax; to teach him as many words and expressions from Caesar sC ommentaries as he can learn with profit, and thus prepare him for the successful study of that work. References are made to six of our best Latin grammars, with any one of which the book may be used. In the part devoted to inflection, the learners attention is directed, as far as thought practicable, to the elements of words declined and conjugated, to stems, endings, signs, and connecting vowels. The root and formation of stems are not referred to; these subjects belong more properly to a later stage of the study. In syntax, the principal rules only are introduced, and these are illustrated by numerous examples. Of the latter, translations are given which the learner may imitate in rendering the parallel exercises that follow; these exercises are taken chiefly from the Commentaries and accompanied by explanatory notes. English exercises to be turned into Latin are also added; these are so formed that theL atin sentences immediately preceding furnish models for their construction.
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