{"product_id":"2940157793487","title":"Latin for Beginners","description":"To 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first pages are devoted to a brief discussion of the Latin language,\u003cbr\u003eits history, and its educational value. The body of the book, consisting\u003cbr\u003eof seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I is devoted to pronunciation, quantity, accent, and kindred\u003cbr\u003eintroductory essentials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II carries the work through the first sixty lessons, and is devoted\u003cbr\u003eto the study of forms and vocabulary, together with some elementary\u003cbr\u003econstructions, a knowledge of which is necessary for the translation of\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\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with the\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 in\u003cbr\u003ePart II are reviewed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is hoped that the following features will commend themselves to\u003cbr\u003eteachers:\u003cbr\u003e\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 other\u003cbr\u003edirections being reduced to a minimum while this is going on. The forms\u003cbr\u003eof the subjunctive are studied in correlation with the subjunctive\u003cbr\u003econstructions.\u003cbr\u003e\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, in\u003cbr\u003ethe special vocabularies, and these are among the simplest and commonest\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 vocabularies\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 English\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 per\u003cbr\u003ecent are found in Cæsar.\u003cbr\u003e\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 of\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\u003einfinitive in indirect statements. Constructions having a logical\u003cbr\u003econnection are not separated but are treated together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExercises for translation occur throughout, those for translation into\u003cbr\u003eLatin being, as a rule, only half as long as those for translation into\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 for\u003cbr\u003eLatin word order, the first principles of which are laid down early in\u003cbr\u003ethe course.","brand":"Readings LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171989307632,"sku":"2940157793487","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157793487_p0.jpg?v=1764103351","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157793487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}