AN INTRODUCTION TO LATIN POETRY. CONTAINING 1. EASY HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS. II. ECLOGAE OVIDIANAE. III. LATIN PROSODY AND METRE. IV. FIRST LATIN VERSE-BOOK. For the Use of the Lower Forms in Public and Private Schools. BY WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D., EDITOR OF THE CLASSICAL AND LATIN DICTIONARIES. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. 1864. 305.c.18 DR. WM. SMITH'S LATIN COURSE. The following Series, now complete, undertaken with the view of facilitating the study of the Latin language, is the result of many years' practical teaching, and seeks to combine the advantages of the older and more modern methods of instruction. PRINCIPIA LATINA, PART I. A FIRST LATIN COURSE. Containing a GRAMMAR, DELECTUS, EXERCISE-BOOK, and VOCABULARIES. 12mo. 38. 6d. (A Key to the above may be had, gratis, by Teachers only, on application to the Author or Publisher.) PRINCIPIA LATINA, PART II. A READING-BOOK. Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Mythology, Roman Antiquities, and History. With Notes and a Dictionary. 12mo. 3s. 6d. PRINCIPIA LATINA, PART III. LATIN POETRY-BOOK. Containing-1. Easy Hexameters and Pentameters. 2. Ecloga Ovidianæ. 3. Prosody and Metre. 4. First Latin Verse-Book. 12mo. 3s. 6d. (A Key to the Verse-book may be had, gratis, by Teachers only, on application to the Author or Publisher.) PRINCIPIA LATINA, PART IV. LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION. Containing the Rules of Syntax, with copious Examples, Explanations of Synonyms, and a Systematic Course of Exercises on the Syntax. 12mo. 3s. 6d. (A Key to the Latin Exercises may be had, gratis, by Teachers only, on application to the Author or Publisher.) LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWNS AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. PREFACE. THE following Work is the Third of a short Series which I a 2 The plan of the First Latin Verse-Book, which is taken W. S. January 1st, 1863. |