A Grammar of the Latin Language

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Wilson, Hinkle & Company, 1873 - Latin language - 264 pages
 

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Page 158 - Lucius CATILINA nobili genere natus fuit, magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque.
Page 173 - Si tu et Tullia, lux nostra, valetis, ego et suavissimus Cicero valemus.
Page 28 - Fuerim, / may have been. Fueris, thou mayest have been. Fuerit, he may have been. Fuerimus, we may have been. Fueritis, you may have been. Fuerint, they may have been. PLUPERFECT (might, could, would, or should have been).
Page 184 - Chabrias indulged himself too freely to be able to escape the envy of the mob.' With relative pronoun: Ov. Met. 6, 195 maior sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere. 'I am too great for Fortune to be able to harm me'; Livy, 33, 5, 6 maiores arbor es caedebant quam quasferre miles posset.
Page 212 - ... know to be expected in the camp of the enemy as their chief, the author of all this wickedness, the head of the conspiracy, the instigator of the slaves and abandoned citizens, so that he shall seem not driven out of the city by you, but let loose by you against the city? Will you not order him to be thrown into prison, to be hurried off to execution, to be put to death with the most prompt severity? What hinders you? is it the customs of our ancestors?
Page 156 - I would rather flee from their sight than be gazed at by the hostile eyes of every one. And do you who, from the consciousness of your wickedness, know that the hatred of all men is just and has been long due to you, hesitate to avoid the sight and presence of those men whose minds and senses you offend?
Page 146 - Verbs compounded with the prepositions ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, post, prae, sub, and super, retaining, as compounds, the meaning of the prepositions, may be joined with a dative instead of repeating the preposition or an equivalent one with the case it requires.
Page 250 - Moriamur et in media arma ruamus" (Let us die and rush into battle; Aeneid 2.353).
Page 133 - Duration of Time and Extent of Space are expressed by the Accusative (§§ 424.
Page 55 - They are: audeS, audere, ausus sum, dare gaudeo, gaudere, gavisus sum, rejoice soleo, solere, solitus sum, be accustomed fido, fidere, fisus sum, trust.

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