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Originally published in 1906, this textbook aims to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'.
List of contents
Preface; Introduction, with table of Aryan languages; Part I. Phonology: 1. Alphabet; 2. Pronunciation; 3. Syllables; 4. Accent and quantity; Part II. Accidence: 5. Inflexion and parts of speech; 6. Gender; 7. Declension of nouns and adjectives; 8. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs; 9. Numerals and fractions; 10. Pronouns; 11. Marking of quantities; 12. Verbs and their conjugation; 13. Principal parts of verbs; 14. Derivative verbs; 15. Irregular, defective verbs; 16. Impersonal verbs; 17. Adverbs; 18. Conjunctions; 19. Prepositions; 20. Interjections; Part III. Syntax: 21. Sentences; 22. Subject and predicate; 23. Attribute or enlargement; 24. Analysis of sentences; 25. The concords or rules of agreement; 26. The cases; 27. The cases after prepositions; 28. Conjunctions of time and place; 29. Use of se and suus; 30. Verbs; their voices and tenses; 31. The moods in simple sentences; 32. The moods in complex sentences; 33. ¿ratio obliqua or indirect speech; 34. Order of words and the rhythmical clausula; Part IV. Prosody: 35. Metrical quantity and feet; 36. Heroic and elegiac metres; 37. Lyric metres; 38. Technical terms and metrical licenses; 39. Quantity of final syllables; Part V. Etymology: 40. Formation of words; 41. Formation of nouns, adjectives and verbs; 42. Origin of the gerundive, gerund and future infinitive active; 43. Origin of some tense-suffixes; Appendices; Alphabetical index of verbs; General index.
Summary
Originally published in 1906, this textbook's principal aim is to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'. Predominantly written for school students, this highly informative book sets out to educate the grammar of this classical language.
