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BY
BENJAMIN L. D’OOGE, Ph.D.
PROFESSOR IN THE MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE
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CONTENTS
LESSON PAGE
Preface
To the Student—By way of Introduction 1-4
PART I. THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN
Alphabet, Sounds of the Letters, Syllables, Quantity, Accent, How to Read Latin 5-11
PART II. WORDS AND FORMS
I-VI. First Principles—Subject and Predicate, Inflection, Number, Nominative Subject, Possessive Genitive, Agreement of Verb, Direct Object, Indirect Object, etc.—Dialogue 12-24
VII-VIII. First or Ā-Declension—Gender, Agreement of Adjectives, Word Order 25-30
IX-X. Second or O-Declension—General Rules for Declension—Predicate Noun, Apposition—Dialogue 31-35
XI. Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions 36-37
XII. Nouns in -ius and -ium—Germānia 38-39
XIII. Second Declension (Continued)—Nouns in -er and -ir—Italia—Dialogue 39-41
XIV. Possessive Adjective Pronouns 42-43
XV. Ablative Denoting With—Cause, Means, Accompaniment, Manner—The Romans Prepare for War 44-46
XVI. The Nine Irregular Adjectives 46-47
XVII. The Demonstrative is, ea, id—Dialogue 48-50
XVIII. Conjugation—Present, Imperfect, and Future of sum—Dialogue 51-53
XIX. Present Active Indicative of amō and moneō 54-56
XX. Imperfect Active Indicative of amō and moneō—Meaning of the Imperfect—Niobe and her Children 56-57
XXI. Future Active Indicative of amō and moneō—Niobe and her Children (Concluded) 58-59
XXII. Review of Verbs—The Dative with Adjectives—Cornelia and her Jewels 59-61
XXIII. Present Active Indicative of regō and audiō—Cornelia and her Jewels (Concluded) 61-63
XXIV. Imperfect Active Indicative of regō and audiō—The Dative with Special Intransitive Verbs 63-65
XXV. Future Active Indicative of regō and audiō 65-66
XXVI. Verbs in -iō—Present, Imperfect, and Future Active Indicative of capiō—The Imperative 66-68
XXVII. Passive Voice—Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative of amō and moneō—Perseus and Andromeda 68-71
XXVIII. Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Passive of regō and audiō—Perseus and Andromeda (Continued) 72-73
XXIX. Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Passive of -iō Verbs—Present Passive Infinitive and Imperative 73-75
XXX. Synopses in the Four Conjugations—The Ablative Denoting From—Place from Which, Separation, Personal Agent 75-78
XXXI. Perfect, Pluperfect and Future Perfect of sum—Dialogue 79-81
XXXII. Perfect Active Indicative of the Four Regular Conjugations—Meanings of the Perfect—Perseus and Andromeda (Continued) 81-83
XXXIII. Pluperfect and Future Perfect Active Indicative—Perfect Active Infinitive 84-85
XXXIV. Review of the Active Voice—Perseus and Andromeda (Concluded) 86-87
XXXV. Passive Perfects of the Indicative—Perfect Passive and Future Active Infinitive 88-90
XXXVI. Review of Principal Parts—Prepositions, Yes-or-No Questions 90-93
XXXVII. Conjugation of possum—The Infinitive used as in English—Accusative Subject of an Infinitive—The Faithless Tarpeia 93-96
XXXVIII. The Relative Pronoun and the Interrogative Pronoun—Agreement of the Relative—The Faithless Tarpeia (Concluded) 97-101
XXXIX-XLI. The Third Declension—Consonant Stems 101-106
XLII. Review Lesson—Terror Cimbricus 107
XLIII. Third Declension—I-Stems 108-110
XLIV. Irregular Nouns of the Third Declension—Gender in the Third Declension—The First Bridge over the Rhine 111-112
XLV. Adjectives of the Third Declension—The Romans Invade the Enemy’s Country 113-115
XLVI. The Fourth or U-Declension 116-117
XLVII. Expressions of Place—Place to Which, Place from Which, Place at or in Which, the Locative—Declension of domus—Dædalus and Icarus 117-121
XLVIII. The Fifth or Ē-Declension—Ablative of Time—Dædalus and Icarus (Continued) 121-123
XLIX. Pronouns—Personal and Reflexive Pronouns—Dædalus and Icarus (Concluded) 123-126
L. The Intensive Pronoun ipse and the Demonstrative īdem—How Horatius Held the Bridge 126-127
LI. The Demonstratives hic, iste, ille—A German Chieftain Addresses his Followers—How Horatius Held the Bridge (Continued) 128-130
LII. The Indefinite Pronouns—How Horatius Held the Bridge (Concluded) 130-132
LIII. Regular Comparison of Adjectives 133-135
LIV. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives—Ablative with Comparatives 135-136
LV. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives (Continued)—Declension of plūs 137-138
LVI. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives (Concluded)—Ablative of the Measure of Difference 138-139
LVII. Formation and Comparison of Adverbs 140-142
LVIII. Numerals—Partitive Genitive 142-144
LIX. Numerals (Continued)—Accusative of Extent—Cæsar in Gaul 144-146
LX. Deponent Verbs—Prepositions with the Accusative 146-147
PART III. CONSTRUCTIONS
LXI. The Subjunctive Mood—Inflection of the Present—Indicative and Subjunctive Compared 148-152
LXII. The Subjunctive of Purpose 152-153
LXIII. Inflection of the Imperfect Subjunctive—Sequence of Tenses 153-155
LXIV. Inflection of the Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive—Substantive Clauses of Purpose 156-159
LXV. Subjunctive of possum—Verbs of Fearing 160-161
LXVI. The Participles—Tenses and Declension 161-164
LXVII. The Irregular Verbs volō, nōlō, mālō—Ablative Absolute 164-166
LXVIII. The Irregular Verb fīō—Subjunctive of Result 167-168
LXIX. Subjunctive of Characteristic—Predicate Accusative 169-171
LXX. Constructions with cum—Ablative of Specification 171-173
LXXI. Vocabulary Review—Gerund and Gerundive—Predicate Genitive 173-177
LXXII. The Irregular Verb eō—Indirect Statements 177-180
LXXIII. Vocabulary Review—The Irregular Verb ferō—Dative with Compounds 181-183
LXXIV. Vocabulary Review—Subjunctive in Indirect Questions 183-185
LXXV. Vocabulary Review—Dative of Purpose or End for Which 185-186
LXXVI. Vocabulary Review—Genitive and Ablative of Quality or Description 186-188
LXXVII. Review of Agreement—Review of the Genitive, Dative, and Accusative 189-190
LXXVIII. Review of the Ablative 191-192
LXXIX. Review of the Syntax of Verbs 192-193
READING MATTER
Introductory Suggestions 194-195
The Labors of Hercules 196-203
P. Cornelius Lentulus: The Story of a Roman Boy 204-215
APPENDIXES AND VOCABULARIES
Appendix I. Tables of Declensions, Conjugations, Numerals, etc. 226-260
Appendix II. Rules of Syntax 261-264
Appendix III. Reviews 265-282
Special Vocabularies 283-298
Latin-English Vocabulary 299-331
English-Latin Vocabulary 332-343
INDEX 344-348
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