Guide to Latin conversation, containing a collection of useful words, a list of comparatives and of superlatives ... familiar expressions and phrases .. PDF
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OAK HDSF ST. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY GrfA- OAK HDSF ST. Return this book on or before the Latest Dote stamped below. Theft, mutilation, and underlining of books are reasons for disciplinary action and may result in dismissal from the University. University of Illinois Library 'utility and general division OF THE BOOK. Somecolleges are tryingto revive the custom ofspeaking Latininthe classroom. Thesuccess thathas attended these efforts has fullyjustified the method pursued and broughtinto relief the realneedofelementary books to supplementthe endeavor. Thedesireof forwarding this move- mentinfavorofmore solid studies,andofseeing the scope of a method become more extended I'which has alreadybornesuch goodfruit in Italy and in many colleges of France, has prompted usto writethis Guideto Latin Conversation. We have reunited in a convenient and handy vol- ume, a vocabulary of ordinary words, a list of comparatives and of superlatives, the principal irregularverbs,choice familiarphrases,dialogues, 3roverbs, choice sentences and quotations. A linglevolume contains,thephrases anddialogues I )fErasmus,ofVives,ofCordier,ofAlde-Manuce, [ 1>f Fathers Pontanus, Van Torre and Champs- heups. 3 4 Guide to Latin Conversation, The vocabulary, distributed under different headings, contains in alphabeticalorder the no- menclatureofsuchwordsasaremostinuse. We have been careful not to introduce in this dic- tionary any word of uncertain Latinity. Some ecclesiasticalterms,namesofrank,ofsciences,and of moderninventions, do not belong to the lan- guageoftheAugustan age,andwillbeeasilyrec- ognized. Inthelistofcomparativesandofsuper- lativesweware more desirousof givingpositive indicationsthanofwishingto make thelistcom- plete. Thegender of nounsandthequantityof increments and penultimates which do not fol- low the rules of position, will be found desig- nated. A collection of idioms and Latin expressions followsthevocabulary. Wehavegrouped them under general titles,which embracethecircleof ideas most familiar to students. Most of these phrases are taken from the letters of Cicero; others from Terence. Afeware extractedfrom the writings of Titus Livius, of Caesar, and of Plautus. There are eighty dialogues, thirty of which havebeentakenfromtheconversationsofFather General Division of the Book. 5 VanTorre, aBelgianJesuit.^ Inthelatter part ofthebookwehavegivenan ideaofthekindof dialogue that should be used by the pupils of moreadvanced studies. Alltheother dialogues are those of the Progymnasmata Latinitalis of Pontanus,*which Ihe Protestant gymnasiumsof Germany*did not hesitate to accept evenatthe handsofabornadversaryoftheKeform. The dialogues only are not translated. We werecompelledtolessentheirnumber,andmany ^professors were of the opinion thatitwould be moreadvantageous to have the pupils translate themforthemselves. ^Thesentencesand choice thoughts come after the conversations. With a few proverbs from 1AnthonyVanTorrewasbornatAlost,in1615,became areligiousin1632,and passed his life in teachingbelles- lettres,andinsupervisingclasses. Hediedin1677,atthe collegeofCourtrai. Hisdialogues,writtenforthecollege ofAnvers,werepublished for the firsttimein1657. The same Father published, in 1674, A Collection ofLatin Phrases. 2James Pontanus, a Bohemian Jesuit, taught belles- lettresforalongtimeandwithgreatsuccessinGermany. He died atAugsburg, in 1626, at the age ofeighty-four years. He was the authorofPoeticalPrecepts, Commen- tariesonVirgil and Ovid,several GreekTranslations,and manyotherwritingsinproseandverse. 6 Guide to Latin Conversation. Publius Syrus are grouped noted sayings from Juvenal, Terence, Seneca, Ovid, Virgil, and Horace, all of which wehave inserted as happy remembrancesof asolidandvaried literaryedu- cation. Thebookendswithtables, abbreviations, nota- tions, the Koman calendar, all of which cannot butbeusefulforeasyreference.
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