HENRY JOHN ROBY,
M.A. late FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLL. CAMBRIDGE.

PART I. containing :

BOOK I. SOUNDS.
BOOK II. INFLEXIONS.
BOOK III. WORD-FORMATION.

APPENDICES.

London and New York :
MACMILLAN AND CO.

1871

(All Rights reserved.]

Cambridge: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Table of Contents.

PREFACE.

General Observations.

Compass of the book :

(1) A grammar, p. xvii.

(2) of Latin, p. xviii.

(3) of the classical period, p. xix.

Treatment of the matter of Book I.

P.

xxii.

Book II. p. xxiii.

Book III. p. xxv.

On f, p.

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Observations on Book I.; particularly on Pronun-

ciation, p. xxix.

On v consonant, p. xxxii.

xlii.

On c before æ, e, i, &c., p. xliii.

On g before , e and i, p. li.

On dentals: especially ti before a vowel, p. lii.

On bs, x, bt, &c., p. liii.

On n before gutturals, gn, p. liii.

liv.

Origin of s8, p. lvii.

On the vowels, especially o and e, p. lxiii.

On the diphthongs ai, ae, oi, oe, ui, p. lxix.

On a supposed sound like ü, p. lxx.

Miscellaneous: chiefly on vowel pronunciation, p. lxxii.

Division of words into syllables, p. lxxv.

Summary of Roman pronunciation, p. lxxviii.

On s, P