{"product_id":"2940014479905","title":"Latin for Beginners","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003eTo make the course preparatory to Cæsar at the same time systematic,\u003cbr\u003ethorough, clear, and interesting is the purpose of this series of\u003cbr\u003elessons.\u003cbr\u003eThe first pages are devoted to a brief discussion of the Latin\u003cbr\u003elanguage,\u003cbr\u003eits history, and its educational value. The body of the book,\u003cbr\u003econsisting\u003cbr\u003eof seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts.\u003cbr\u003ePart I is devoted to pronunciation, quantity, accent, and kindred\u003cbr\u003eintroductory essentials.\u003cbr\u003ePart II carries the work through the first sixty lessons, and is\u003cbr\u003edevoted\u003cbr\u003eto the study of forms and vocabulary, together with some elementary\u003cbr\u003econstructions, a knowledge of which is necessary for the translation\u003cbr\u003eof\u003cbr\u003ethe exercises and reading matter. The first few lessons have been made\u003cbr\u003eunusually simple, to meet the wants of pupils not well grounded in\u003cbr\u003eEnglish grammar.\u003cbr\u003ePart III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with\u003cbr\u003ethe\u003cbr\u003ePage 2\u003cbr\u003eLatin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge\u003cbr\u003estudy of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms. The last\u003cbr\u003ethree of these lessons constitute a review of all the constructions\u003cbr\u003epresented in the book. There is abundant easy reading matter; and, in\u003cbr\u003eorder to secure proper concentration of effort upon syntax and\u003cbr\u003etranslation, no new vocabularies are introduced, but the vocabularies\u003cbr\u003ein\u003cbr\u003ePart II are reviewed.\u003cbr\u003eIt is hoped that the following features will commend themselves to\u003cbr\u003eteachers:\u003cbr\u003eThe forms are presented in their natural sequence, and are given, for\u003cbr\u003ethe most part, in the body of the book as well as in a grammatical\u003cbr\u003eappendix. The work on the verb is intensive in character, work in\u003cbr\u003eother\u003cbr\u003edirections being reduced to a minimum while this is going on. The\u003cbr\u003eforms\u003cbr\u003eof the subjunctive are studied in correlation with the subjunctive\u003cbr\u003econstructions.\u003cbr\u003eThe vocabulary has been selected with the greatest care, using Lodge’s\u003cbr\u003e“Dictionary of Secondary Latin” and Browne’s “Latin Word List” as a\u003cbr\u003ebasis. There are about six hundred words, exclusive of proper names,\u003cbr\u003ein\u003cbr\u003ethe special vocabularies, and these are among the simplest and\u003cbr\u003ecommonest\u003cbr\u003ewords in the language. More than ninety-five per cent of those chosen\u003cbr\u003eare Cæsarian, and of these more than ninety per cent are used in Cæsar\u003cbr\u003efive or more times. The few words not Cæsarian are of such frequent\u003cbr\u003eoccurrence in Cicero, Vergil, and other authors as to justify their\u003cbr\u003eappearance here. But teachers desiring to confine word study to Cæsar\u003cbr\u003ecan easily do so, as the Cæsarian words are printed in the\u003cbr\u003evocabularies\u003cbr\u003ein distinctive type. Concrete nouns have been preferred to abstract,\u003cbr\u003eroot words to compounds and derivatives, even when the latter were of\u003cbr\u003emore frequent occurrence in Cæsar. To assist the memory, related\u003cbr\u003eEnglish\u003cbr\u003ewords are added in each special vocabulary. To insure more careful\u003cbr\u003epreparation, the special vocabularies have been removed from their\u003cbr\u003erespective lessons and placed by themselves. The general vocabulary\u003cbr\u003econtains about twelve hundred words, and of these above eighty-five\u003cbr\u003eper\u003cbr\u003ecent are found in Cæsar.\u003cbr\u003eThe syntax has been limited to those essentials which recent\u003cbr\u003einvestigations, such as those of Dr. Lee Byrne and his collaborators,\u003cbr\u003ehave shown to belong properly to the work of the first year. The\u003cbr\u003econstructions are presented, as far as possible, from the standpoint\u003cbr\u003eof\u003cbr\u003eEnglish, the English usage being given first and the Latin compared or\u003cbr\u003econtrasted with it. Special attention has been given to the\u003cbr\u003econstructions of participles, the gerund and gerundive, and the\u003cbr\u003ePage 3\u003cbr\u003eLatin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge\u003cbr\u003einfinitive in indirect statements. Constructions having a logical\u003cbr\u003econnection are not separated but are treated together.\u003cbr\u003eExercises for translation occur throughout, those for translation into\u003cbr\u003eLatin being, as a rule, only half as long as those for translation\u003cbr\u003einto\u003cbr\u003eEnglish. In Part III a few of the commoner idioms in Cæsar are\u003cbr\u003eintroduced and the sentences are drawn mainly from that author. From\u003cbr\u003efirst to last a consistent effort is made to instill a proper regard\u003cbr\u003efor\u003cbr\u003eLatin word order, the first principles of which are laid down early in\u003cbr\u003ethe course.\u003cbr\u003eSelections for reading are unusually abundant and are introduced from\u003cbr\u003ethe earliest possible moment. These increase in number and length as\u003cbr\u003ethe\u003cbr\u003ebook progresses, and, for the most part, are made an integral part of\u003cbr\u003ethe lessons instead of being massed at the end of the book. This\u003cbr\u003earrangement insures a more constant and thorough drill in forms and\u003cbr\u003evocabulary, promotes reading power, and affords a breathing spell\u003cbr\u003ebetween succeeding subjects. The material is drawn from historical and\u003cbr\u003emythological sources, and th","brand":"All classic book warehouse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070615208176,"sku":"2940014479905","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014479905_p0.jpg?v=1763609292","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014479905","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}