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Title: Latin for beginners
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: D'Ooge, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard), b. 1860
Subjects: Latin language
Publisher: Boston New York (etc.) : Ginn and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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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 .... 204-225 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 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLORPlate I pagi «LENTULUS AD VILLAM SUAM PROPERAVIT . . . Frontispiec By E. Forti, Rome. From a facsimile colored under thedirection of the artist. Plate II STABIANA PORTA URBEM INGRESSI SUNT 52 By E. Forti, Rome. From a facsimile colored under thedirection of the artist. Plate JII CAPTIVI INTERROGANTUR 148 By Edmund H. Garrett, Boston. From an original paintingin oil. Plate IV «ECCE CAESAR NUNC TRIUMPHAT» 212 By Edmund H. Garrett, Boston. From an original paintingin oil. Map ITALIA ANTIQUA e o 1 • zH
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LATIN FOR BEGINNERS TO THE STUDENT —BY WAY OFINTRODUCTION What is Latin ? If you will look at the map of Italy on the oppo-site page, you will find near the middle of the peninsula and* facing thewest coast a district called Latium,^ and Rome its capital. The Latinlanguage, meaning the language of Latium, was spoken by the ancientRomans and other inhabitants of Latium, and Latin was the nameapplied to it after the armies of Rome had carried the knowledge ofher language far beyond its original boundaries. As the English ofto-day is not quite the same as that spoken two or three hundredyears ago, so Latin was not always the same at all times, but changedmore or less in the course of centuries. The sort of Latin you aregoing to learn was in use about two thousand years ago. Aijd thatperiod has been selected because the language was then at its bestand the greatest works of Roman literature were being produced.This period, because of its supreme excellence, is called the GoldenAge of Ro

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