A Grammar of Classical Latin
For Use in Schools and Colleges

Originally published in 1906, this textbook aims to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'.

Arthur Sloman (Author)

9781316619926, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2016

504 pages
18 x 12.7 x 3 cm, 1 kg

Originally published in 1906, this textbook's principal aim is to give 'the facts of the language as they appear in the accepted models of Classical Latin'. Predominantly written for school students, this highly informative book sets out to educate the grammar of this classical language - the term 'classical' here meant as the 'artificial literacy dialect of which Cicero and Caesar are the recognised exponents in prose, Vergil, Ovid and Horace in poetry'. Chapters are detailed and broad in scope; chapter titles include, 'Phonology', 'Accidence' and 'Prosody'. Notably, 'Accidence and syntax are treated separately, yet, where it seemed convenient, e.g. with the impersonal verbs, the construction of certain words has been given at the same time as their forms and inflexions'. An index of verbs is included for reference. Intended as a reliable and clear introduction, this book will be of great value to anyone with an interest in Latin.

Preface
Introduction, with table of Aryan languages
Part I. Phonology: 1. Alphabet
2. Pronunciation
3. Syllables
4. Accent and quantity
Part II. Accidence: 5. Inflexion and parts of speech
6. Gender
7. Declension of nouns and adjectives
8. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
9. Numerals and fractions
10. Pronouns
11. Marking of quantities
12. Verbs and their conjugation
13. Principal parts of verbs
14. Derivative verbs
15. Irregular, defective verbs
16. Impersonal verbs
17. Adverbs
18. Conjunctions
19. Prepositions
20. Interjections
Part III. Syntax: 21. Sentences
22. Subject and predicate
23. Attribute or enlargement
24. Analysis of sentences
25. The concords or rules of agreement
26. The cases
27. The cases after prepositions
28. Conjunctions of time and place
29. Use of se and suus
30. Verbs
their voices and tenses
31. The moods in simple sentences
32. The moods in complex sentences
33. ?ratio obliqua or indirect speech
34. Order of words and the rhythmical clausula
Part IV. Prosody: 35. Metrical quantity and feet
36. Heroic and elegiac metres
37. Lyric metres
38. Technical terms and metrical licenses
39. Quantity of final syllables
Part V. Etymology: 40. Formation of words
41. Formation of nouns, adjectives and verbs
42. Origin of the gerundive, gerund and future infinitive active
43. Origin of some tense-suffixes
Appendices
Alphabetical index of verbs
General index.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]