Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition

This 1839 introduction contains basic tools for sentence construction in classical Latin and includes vocabulary and revision exercises.

Thomas Kerchever Arnold (Author)

9781108011419, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

236 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.31 kg

Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition first appeared in 1839 and was reprinted in several editions due to popular demand, being adopted as a textbook in leading public schools. Ordained as a priest in 1827 after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1821, Arnold had studied both theology and classics, and wrote prolifically on both subjects. His first school textbook was published in 1836 and others followed steadily until his death in 1853. One of the chief merits of Arnold's classical publications was his use of contemporary works of German scholarship, to which he readily acknowledged his debt. He produced, alongside Latin and Greek textbooks, grammars of English, French, German, Italian, and Hebrew, and editions of many Greek and Latin authors. This introduction was designed to provide students with the basic tools with which to construct sentences and includes exercises on syntax and a vocabulary index.

Preparatory tables
1. Nominative case and verb
2. Accusative with infinitive
3. Accusative with infinitive continued
4. Agreement of adjective with substantive
5. The relative
6. Infinitive used substantively
7 Relative continued
8. Relative continued
9. Relative continued
10. Ut, ne expressing a purpose
11. Ut expressing a consequence
12. English infinitive translated by ut with subj.
13. Ut, &c. continued
14. Quin after negative sentences
15. Quominus
16. Interrogative sentences
17. Interrogative words
18. Dependent questions
19. Double questions
20. May, can, &c. as principal verbs
21. Apposition
22. Nominative after the verb
23. Dative after esse
24. The genitive
25. The genitive continued
26. The genitive after adjectives
27. The genitive continued
28. The genitive continued
29. The genitive continued
30. The dative
31. The dative continued
32. The dative continued
33. The dative continued
34. Verbs that take a second dative
35. The accusative
36. The accusative continued
37. The ablative
38. The ablative continued
39. The vocative
40. The passive voice
41. The passive voice continued
42. Time
43. Place
44. Gerunds and partic. in dus
45. Participles
46. Participles continued
47. Participles continued
48. Pronouns
49. Pronouns continued
50. Pronouns continued
51. Pronouns continued
52. Comparison
53. Remarks on some of the tenses
54. Remarks on the tenses continued
55. Forms of conditional propositions
56. Conditional propositions continued
57. Conditional propositions in dependent sentences
58. On oblique narration
59. Oblique narration continued
60. Qui with subjunctive
61. Qui with the subjunctive continued
62. Quum with the indicative
63. Antequam and priusquam
64. Dum, donec, quoad, &c.
65. Quod
66. The Roman calendar
67. Connection of propositions by the relative, &c.
68. On the Roman way of reckoning money
69. On the division of the As, &c.
Table of differences of idioms, &c.
Questions on the cautions
Questions on the syntax
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Language: history & general works [CBX]