Page images
PDF
EPUB

PREFACE.

THE following Book of Exercises is intended as a companion to the Elementary Grammar of the Latin language, and to be used while the pupil is engaged in learning the ordinary grammatical forms. All that belongs to the department of Syntax, with the exception of such elementary principles as seemed necessary for the construction of a sufficient variety of sentences, has been intentionally excluded.

Those words which are used in each set of exercises, and which have not previously occurred, are contained in the prefixed vocabularies. It is intended that these should be committed to memory; as, in addition to exercising the pupil in the forms of the language, one of the main objects of the book is to supply him with a stock of such words as are most frequently to be met with.

The Notes are intended to remove all difficulties which, in the present stage of his progress, the learner himself cannot be presumed capable of mastering. Thus, in the Exercises on Nouns, it was necessary to introduce a few verbs, in order to the formation of complete sentences. Such verbs are given in the notes. Wherever a preposition in English is not merely the sign of a case, but must be rendered by a preposition in Latin, this is stated in the notes. And in general, whenever the Latin construction differs from the English, this difference is explained. On the other hand, where the constructions of the two languages coincideas, for instance, in the rule that a verb agrees with its nominative or that a transitive verb governs the accusative - the pupil is left to the exercise of his own judgment.

It must be especially borne in mind that these Exercises can only be used with advantage during the study of the mere forms of the language, and that they would be injnrious if made to supply the place of a course of systematic training in Syntax.

The Examples are for the most part taken directly from the classic authors, but other works on Latin Composition have also been consulted with advantage.

EDINBURGH, January 1852.

(173)

LATIN EXERCISES.

FIRST DECLENSION.

VOCABULARY.

SUBSTANTIVES.

[blocks in formation]

Lacrima, a tear.

Lāna, wool.

Măgistra, a mistress.
Mēta, a goal.
Pecunia, money.

Philosophia, philosophy.
Planetes, a planet.
Poena, punishment.
Poëta, a poet.
Praeda, booty.
Puella, a girl.
Rota, a wheel.
Sapientia, wisdom.
Scytha, a Scythian.
Terra, the earth.
Uva, a grape.
Věnia, pardon.
Via, a way, path.
Victoria, victory.

Invidia, envy.

Ira, anger.

Justitia, justice.

Vita, life.

[blocks in formation]

*The learner should already know how to decline the feminine of the adjectives here introduced, as they all belong to the first and second declensions: that is, are declined in the masculine like nouns of the second declension in us, in the feminine like nouns of the first declension in a, and in the neuter like nouns of the second declension in um, (Int. Lat. Gram. Nos. 62, 63, and 64.)

« PreviousContinue »