A NEW LATIN DELECTUS; CONTAINING EXTRACTS FROM CLASSICAL AUTHORS, WITH GENEALOGICAL VOCABULARIES AND EXPLANATORY NOTES. BY HENRY YOUNG, SECOND MASTER OF THE ROYAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL, GUILDFORD. LONDON: JOHN WEALE, 59, HIGH HOLBORN. 305.c.65. PREFACE. IN the following pages some departure may be observed rom the traditional form of Latin Delectuses. The considerations which have prompted such deviation may bo endily understood, and set down at their proper worth, by any practical Teacher. In all the books which have come under my observation, intended as introductory to the reading of Roman authors, the extracts chosen for translation follow one another in the order of their presumed degrees of difficulty. A duo regard to the rule of progressiveness is no doubt of the utmost importance; and it has been constantly kept in view during. the composition of this volume. The arrangement, however, of the selections it contains has not been regulated, solely and exclusively, by a comparative estimate of their intrinsic difficulty. I have endeavoured to group together sentences. involving, to a greater or less extent, cognate words, similar idioms, or parallel constructions. Thus it is hoped that many passages which, if met with singly and unconnectedly, would be beyond the range of a school-boy's penetration, may, by the aid of the associative principle I have adopted, readily yield to the exercise of moderato application and industry. And it seems reasonable to expect that the repeated occurrence of analogous forms of expression within the limits of, perhaps, a single lesson, will go far to deepen and perpetuate the impression produced upon the memory, as well as to secure precision and accuracy of conception. When once at |