WHICH HAVE BEEN COLLECTED IN ALL PHRASEOLOGICAL FOR THE MORE SPEEDY PROGRESS OF STUDENTS IN LATIN COMPOSITION. By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, A.M. OF CAMBRIDGE. A NEW EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, ALTER- F LONDON: PRINTED BY A. J. VALPY, RED LION COURT, FLEET-STREET; FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK AND JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1824. 14680. ADVERTISEMENT. That ROBERTSON'S LATIN PHRASE BOOK having been long out of print and become scarce, many eminent teachers of the classics have expressed a desire to see a new and improved edition. there was ample room for improvement is obvious on the slightest inspection of the old work. The English is obsolete, the arrangement confused, the order of printing such as to render it difficult for consultation or reference, the redundancies so numerous as to increase most unnecessarily and seriously the bulk of the volume, and much of the Latin drawn from barbarous sources. It has been the aim of the present editor to remedy these evils, and to render the work better adapted to the use of the Middle and Upper classes in our schools. ་ It is a peculiarity in this Phrase Book that it comprehends all previous publications on the subject: but the present edition has this advantage over its 91700 predecessors, that it is enriched with many hundred phrases which have hitherto been unrecorded, and these have been drawn from the purest fountains, by actual perusal; from Cicero, Tacitus, Terence, Plautus, &c. Thus, while the size of the volume has been usefully diminished, its capacity for reference has been increased, and its value for purity considerably enhanced. But while the editor is calling public attention to improvements already made, he would not be thought insensible to the necessity of future improvements, and will thankfully receive such animadversions as may render another edition still more useful. The increasing attention paid to Latin Composition renders works of this description more important; and by the Lexicon Ciceronianum of Nizolius, and this improved edition of Robertson, the access to Latin peculiarities is made more easy and sure; for if correct Latinity were only to be acquired by an extensive and deep acquaintance with the various works of classic authors, it would be absolutely unattainable by any one in statu pupillari, and could scarcely be taught in our schools. A AB OR AN before a vowel, is an indefinite article, usually put before appellative or common nouns; chiefly in the nominative case singular: as, A man, homo: An angel, angelus.- A, coming after a verb of motien, is put for the first supine, or a participle in rus, or gerund in dum: as, I go a hunting; eo venatum, eo venaturus, or, eo ad venandum: He goes a fishing; vadit piscatum, piscaturus, ad piscandum, &c.-A or an is used also to express time: as, They are a day in talking; dum garriunt, dies est: They are a year in combing; dum comuntur, annus est: He is an hour in telling these things; hæc dum dicit, abiit hora; Ter. Once a year, Apollo smiles; semel in anno, ridet Apollo; Hor. Twice a day, they both count their cattle; bis die numerant ambo pecus; Virg.-A or an, in distributive speeches, is used for Each, or Every; singulus, unusquisque : as, He sets down twelve acres a man; duodena in singulos jugera describit; Liv. So much a foot; in pedem; Cic. Twice a year; in singulis annis, bis; Cic. AB tiavit. I abandon my province; provinciam remitto. To abandon one whose reputation is attacked; dimicanti de fama deesse; Cic. To ABANDON, or forsake utterly; abdicare, abjicere, deserere, derelinquere, abnegare, repudiare, rejicere, repellere; nullo modo agnoscere; pro suo non habere, aut, non agnoscere; pro derelicto habere. To abandon or give oneself up; se dedere. He abandoned himself to despair; spem penitus abjecit. Abandoned to despair; destitutus spe; Liv. Having abandoned the love of life; projecto lucis amore. bandoned in character; perditus, flagitiosus. The most profligate and abandoned of mortals; omnium mortalium profligatissimus ac perditissimus; Cic. homo flagitiosissimus; Cic. To abandon oneself; capessere se præcipitem ad malos mores. To ABANDON, renuntiare, amovere, amandare, remittere, &c.: as, To abandon one's friendship; amicitiam alicui renuntiare; Cic. He has abandoned virtue; nuntium virtuti remisit; Cic. He has abandoned, or renounced, all civil offices, or employments; civilibus omnibus officiis renunPhrase. A To ABASE, or vilify; abjicere, deprimere, obscurare, extenuare aliquem;\ derogare, detrahere alicui, An ABASEMENT, abasing and vilifying, or undervaluing; imminutio, abjectio, extenuatio, detractio, depressio, obscuratio alicujus; dignitatis alicujus obscuratio, et ab omni laude exclusio, &c. To ABASE himself; abjicere, i. e. parvi æstimare, se; to set little by, or make no account of himself; Cic. Will you so fur abase yourself? sic te abjicies et prosternes? Cic. I do not far abase myself; non tantum mihi derogo. A |