LATIN PROSE LESSONS. BY ALFRED J. CHURCH, M.A. ONE OF THE UNDER MASTERS IN THE MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL PREFACE. THE object of this little Book is to supply a progressive series of Exercises in construing, introductory to the study of Cæsar. By occasional alterations and omissions, many authors have been made available for this purpose. It is hoped that the Lessons combine simplicity of construction with good Latinity, and that they for the most part possess an interest and attractiveness to which the tedious epitomes and compilations commonly in use scarcely profess to lay claim. In the latter portion of the Book will be found a few Scripture Stories, which may be useful as Divinity" Lessons; and some longer narratives (for the most part adapted from Livy) of important or interesting events in Roman History. It may be necessary to observe that Lessons i.-xvii. are not so much intended to be introductory to those that follow, as to furnish the teacher with sets of examples by which the principal rules of Syntax may be illustrated. LATIN PROSE LESSONS. PART I. [The Arabic Numerals refer to King Edward VI.'s Grammar: the Roman to Yonge's Eton Grammar.] i. Verbs Substantive. [6.] (liv.) HOMERUS, ut primus, ita optimus fuit poetarum. C. Licinius Stolo, primus inter homines plebeios, factus est Consul et Magister equitum. Ii tantum, qui scientiam sine spe præmiorum colant, rite appellantur philosophi. Cato esse quam videri bonus malebat. Universus hic mundus una civitas rectè existimatur. ii. The Infinitive. [14.] (viii.) Sentimus animum immortalem esse. Urbs territa audivit, exercitum apud Cannas fusum esse, quadraginta quinque millia peditum, duo millia septingentos equites casos esse, Consulem ipsum, L. Æmilium, in prœlio cecidisse. Videmus, labi annos, propinquare mortem, omnia, quæ sunt in terris, perire. Mavult bonus decipi quam decipere. Video te velle in cœlum migrare. Catilina urbem vastare, magistratus occidere, rempublicam evertere conatus est. B |