A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar

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Ginn Bros., 1874 - Latin language - 266 pages
 

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Page 227 - STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the Ocean. II. THE OVIDIAN ELEGIAC METRE DESCRIBED AND EXEMPLIFIED. IN the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.
Page 2 - These were, — a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, k, 1, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, x. y...
Page 165 - Hortensius was so hot with desire of speaking that I have never seen a more burning ardor in any man. Siciliam Verres per triennium ita vexavit ac perdidit, ut ea restitui in antiquum statum nullo modo possit (Verr.
Page 127 - Many verbs compounded with ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, post, prae. pro, sub, super, and some with circum, admit the Dative of the indirect object (§ 370).
Page 216 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 158 - Ceterum facies totius negoti varia, incerta, foeda atque miserabilis; dispersi a suis pars cedere, alii insequi, neque signa neque ordines observare ; ubi quemque periculum ceperat, ibi resistere ac propulsare; arma tela, equi viri, hostes cives permixti; nihil consilio neque imperio agi, fors omnia regere.
Page 160 - Do not suppose, my dearest sons, that when I have left you I shall be nowhere and no one. Even when I was with you, you did not see my soul, but knew that it was in this body of mine from what I did. Believe then that it is still the same, even though you see it not. The honours paid to illustrious men had not continued to exist after their death, had the souls of these very men not done something to make us retain our recollection of them...
Page 181 - With Future tenses, there is no distinction of absolute or relative time ; and hence the Indicative is used : as, non dubitabo dare operam ut te videam, cum id satis commode facere potero (Fam. xiii. i), I shall not hesitate to take pains to see you, when I can do it conveniently. longum illud tempus cum non ero (Alt.
Page 165 - Erat et cupidus voluptatum et eius generis intellegens et copiosus ; ita non superstitiosus ut illa plurima in sua patria sacrificia et fana contemneret; ita non timidus ad mortem ut in acie sit ob rem publicam 64 interfectus. Cupiditates non Epicuri divisione finiebat sed sua satietate. Habebat tamen rationem valetudinis...

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