Latin Composition: An Elementary Guide to Writing in Latin. Part I.--Constructions; Part II.--Exercises in Translation |
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Latin Composition, an Elementary Guide to Writing in Latin. Part I ... Joseph Henry Allen,J B 1833-1901 Greenough No preview available - 2016 |
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Accusative adesse adjective adverb ae F ALLEN & GREENOUGH'S ALLEN'S LATIN Anabasis Antonius army arum atis F Brutus Cæsar camp Catiline Cato Cicero Cloth command construction consuls Dative death Demosthenes edition enemy English eris Exercise expressed in Latin father friends Gallic War Gaul Genitive Gerundive given Goodwin's Greek Grammar Half morocco Hannibal Harvard College Hippomenes idiomatic Indirect Discourse Infinitive inis F Introduction J. H. ALLEN Jugurtha Julius Cæsar king Latin Grammar Lesson 15 Lesson 22 LEXICON main clause Marius morocco Notes noun object onis F orations oris orum Participle passive person phrases plur Pompey preposition pronoun quae quam quidem quod relative clause Remark Roman Rome Scipio selections Senate sentence Socrates soldiers subj Subjunctive sunt Syntax tense thing Tiber tion verb victory Vocabulary words Xenophon
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Page 183 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 180 - I thrice presented him a kingly crown Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And, sure, he is an honorable man.
Page 177 - ... for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Page 178 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 177 - Read not to contradict and confute nor to believe and take for granted nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Page 182 - And dip their napkins in his sacred blood, Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Unto their issue.
Page 181 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...
Page 177 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 184 - For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Page 170 - Halls, Exchange, Hospitals, Monuments, and ornaments, leaping after a prodigious manner from house to house and street to street, at great distances one from the other; for the heat with a long set of fair and warm weather had even ignited the air and prepared the materials to conceive the fire, which devoured after an incredible manner houses, furniture, and everything.