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Common terms and phrases
ablative according accus accusative adjectives adverbs aliquid ancient apud atque aud-itus Cicero commonly Comp Compare compounds connexion consonants dative declension denote deponents derived diphthong enim erat especially esset etiam expressed facere feminine frequently fuit future perfect gender genitive gerund haec Hence Horace imperative imperfect inchoatives indicative infinitive intransitive joined Latin language Livy masculine meaning mihi milia modo mon-itus names neque neuter nihil nisi nominative Note nouns occurs Ovid participle passages passive person Plautus pluperfect Plur plural poets preceding preposition present Priscian pronoun prose quae quam quid quidem Quintilian quis quod quum rarely Sallust sense sentence signification Sing singular sometimes subjunctive substantives sunt supine syllable Tacitus tenses Terence termination thing third conjugation tibi tion tive transitive verbs Tusc verbs vero Verr verse vocative vowel writers
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Page 551 - XIX XVIII XVII XVI XV XIV XIII XII XI X IX VIII VII VI v IV III...
Page 359 - Florus (iii. 3) is still more applicable to the Huns than to the Cimbri, and it may serve as a commentary on the celestial plague, with which...
Page 454 - We must here observe that quidam, when joined to substantives and adjectives, is very often used merely to soften the expression when the speaker feels that he has made use of too strong an expression, especially when he means to suggest that the word he has used should not be taken in its literal, but in a figurative sense. The best Latin writers, and more particularly Cicero, are very scrupulous in their application of words, and add their quidam or quasi quidam, where later writers and modern...
Page 517 - Ut stultitia etsi adepta est quod concupivit nunquam se tamen satis consecutam putat : sic sapientia semper eo contenta est quod adest, neque eam unquam sui pœnitet3-.
Page 397 - ... exiguam vitam dedisset: quorum si aetas potuisset esse longinquior, futurum fuisse ut omnibus perfectis artibus omni doctrina hominum vita erudiretur.
Page 519 - Rose. Am., init., Credo ego vos, judices, mirari, quid sit quod, quum tot summi oratores hominesque nobilissimi sedeant, ego potissimum surrexerim, qui, &c. Here care must be taken that, by the insertion and enlargement of a new proposition, the construction of the main proposition be not suspended or embarrassed, which •would produce "an...
Page 230 - Circiter, about (indefinite time or number). Contra, against. Erga, towards. Extra, without. Infra, beneath, below (the contrary of supra). Inter, among, between. Intra, within (the contrary of extra).
Page 467 - ... iecissem ipse me potius in profundum, ut ceteros conservarem, quam illos mei tam cupidos non modo ad certam mortem, sed in magnum vitae discrimen adducerem.
Page 232 - In apud praetorem and apud judices the preposition must likewise be taken to denote the place of the judicial transactions ; we use in this case " before," which, however, cannot be rendered in Latin by ante. Apud is used, also, with the names of authors, instead of in with the name of their works ; as, apud Xenophontem...
Page 534 - Ad rivum eundem Lupus et Agnus venerant Siti compulsi ; superior stabat Lupus, Longeque inferior Agnus. Tune fauce improba Latro incitatus jurgii causam intulit. Cur, inquit, turbulentam fecisti mihi 5 I stain bibenti? Laniger contra timens: Qui possum, qiuuso, facere, quod quereris, Lupe? в V • A te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor.