ADAPTED TO ALLEN AND GREENOUGH'S LATIN GRAMMAR. WITH PARALLEL REFERENCES TO THE LATIN GRAMMARS OF HARKNESS, GILDERSLEEVE, AND ANDREWS AND STODDARD; ALSO, A COURSE OF ELEMENTARY LATIN READING. BY R. F. LEIGHTON, PH.D. (LIPS.), AUTHOR OF CRITICAL HISTORY OF CICERO'S EPISTULAE AD FAMILIARES, 99 HISTORY OF BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY GINN AND HEATH. 1881. KD4/186 HARVARD 50134 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by R. F. LEIGHTON, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PRESS OF ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL, PREFACE. THIS book has been prepared to accompany Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar. In addition to exercises for elementary drill, going systematically over the entire ground of the Etymology and Syntax, it aims to furnish a sufficient quantity of interesting reading matter, on subjects suited to the capacity of the pupil, to prepare him to read the usual Latin authors with ease and profit; while the Notes are designed to supply all necessary information on the subjects of synonymes, ancient geography, Roman history, and antiquities. Questions for examination and review, with vocabularies, complete the volume. Much care and study have been spent on the order and arrangement of the Lessons, especially in the earlier part, aiming mainly at these two things, first, to introduce, very early in the course, a comparison of the simpler verbforms, which are easier than nouns, and open the way to a much larger range of expression; and secondly, to give not bare words and their inflections, but sentences from the start, both questions and answers, in natural and easy succession. The first associations with any language, especially when learned by the young, ought to be such as make it as nearly as possible like a living tongue; the scientific study of it should follow, not go before, some familiar elementary knowledge of what it is in actual |