A. FIRST LATIN BOOK; OR PROGRESSIVE LESSONS IN READING AND WRITING LATIN. BY E. A. ANDREWS, LL. D. Ordinis hæc virtus erit et venus, aut ego fallor, FIFTH EDITION. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY CROCKER AND BREWSTER, 47 Washington Street. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF GEORGE ARTHUR PLIMPTON Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by C. Davison & Co., 33 Gold street, N. Y. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. In preparing this work for a new edition, no essential alteration has been made in its original plan, but every part has been carefully revised, and such additions have every where been made, as the perfecting of its plan seemed to require. The syntax, in particular, has been enlarged by the addition of such subordinate principles and special remarks, as appeared to be most necessary for the student in the commencement of his Latin course. For the purpose of rendering the work more extensively useful, the derivation of the words in the Vocabulary has in most cases been given, and an Appendix has been added, containing a full account of Latin pronunciation, according to the usage in the English universities, and in most of the Colleges of this country. The student will also find in the Appendix a condensed view of the irregularities in the gender and genitive of nouns of the third declension, and also of the principal anomalies in the formation of particular cases in that declension. The following extracts from the preface to the first edition will show the general plan of the work. "The object of this book is, to connect the leading principles of the Latin language with exercises in reading and writing designed for their illustration. It is divided into lessons of convenient length, containing principles to be observed or forms to be imitated. To these are subjoined questions and exercises; the former to assist the student in preparing his lessons, the latter to show the practical application of such principles and forms, and to fix them more firmly in the memory. "The lessons are arranged with careful reference to their natural order, and in such a manner as not to anticipate, in the earlier lessons, those subjects which belong to later parts of the work. Hence the forms of words are first exhibited, and their construction is subsequently explained. "In the declension of nouns and adjectives, the principles of classification and comparison have been brought to aid the pupil's memory, and at the same time, to save no inconsiderable portion of the time usually |