Elementary Latin grammar

Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row
Publication date: 1872
Number of pages: 134The aim of this Grammar is practical. The difficulty in teaching Latin is to impress the form and the meaniug at the same time on the memory, that the one will at once suggest the other, either in translating from Latin into English, or from English into Latin. The contrivances adopted in this book for thiis purpose are these: First, the words that form the inflection are separated from the stems, and thus special prominence is given to them. Second, the meaning that these inflectional words have in the sentence is brought out as clearly as possible; so that as the pupil is advancing, he is learning more and more of the structure of sentences, and the peculiar nature of the Latin language as compared with that of English. Thirdly, an attempt is made to make use of a kind of repetition which will not be wearisome. In employing comparative philology in this book, I have always kept in view the practical nature of the work, and therefore have given only so much as I have deemed suitable. In most cases I have stated doubts where doubts exist; but in a few I have said nothing of the matter. Thus I have marked the stems of the verbs in -rt, -e, and -i of the fourth conjugation long; I have made the -e- of -eba- part of the word denoting the imperfect; I have assumed the -i- in the present of the third conjugation as a euphonic vowel,—though all these points have been doubted.