Latin Lessons: Adapted to Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar

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Ginn brothers, 1875 - Latin language - 315 pages
 

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Page 164 - Caesar ever fought. In this campaign, the coast towns of the west and northwest (Brittany) are reduced to submission. III. After a brief conflict with the mountaineers of the Alps, who attacked the Roman armies on their march, the chief operations are the conquest of the coast tribes of Brittany (Veneti, etc.), in a warfare of curious naval engineering in the shallow tide-water inlets and among the rocky shores. During the season, the tribes of the south-west (Aquitani), a mining population, allied...
Page 164 - Roman garrisons is relieved by the prudent and brave conduct of Labienus and Quintus Cicero. VI. Caesar makes a brief expedition across the Rhine against the Germans. Some general disturbances are quelled, and northern Gaul is reduced to peace. VII. Vercingetorix, a brave and high-spirited chief of southern Gaul, effects a conspiracy of the whole country, which is at length subdued.
Page xi - The short vowel-sound before a consonant; as, in'su-la, i-tin'e-ris. (6) a, e, o, before a single consonant (or a mute with I or r) followed by two vowels, the first of which is e, i, or y, have the long sound; as, impe'ri-um, do'ce-o, a'cri-a. 4. In all unaccented syllables the vowel-sound is — a. Long, if followed by a single consonant (or a mute with...
Page 166 - Had it so happened, our civilization would have hardly stood in any more intimate relation to the RomanoGreek than to the Indian and Assyrian culture. That there is a bridge connecting the past glory of Hellas and Rome with the prouder fabric of modern history ; that Western Europe is Romanic, and Germanic Europe classic; that the names of Themistocles and Scipio have to us a very different sound from those of Asoka and Salmanassar ; that Homer and Sophocles are not merely like the Vedas and Kalidasa...
Page 106 - potes; nee committam, ut dolor corporis efficiat, ut frustra tantus vir ad me venerit'. Itaque narrabat eum graviter et copiose de hoc ipso, nihil esse bonum, nisi quod...

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