A Latin Reader: Consisting of Selections from Phaedrus, Caesar, Curtius, Nepos, Sallust, Ovid, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Pliny, and Tacitus (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Allen, William Francis

 
9781333898977: A Latin Reader: Consisting of Selections from Phaedrus, Caesar, Curtius, Nepos, Sallust, Ovid, Virgil, Plautus, Terence, Cicero, Pliny, and Tacitus (Classic Reprint)

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P 11 E F A C E. Our first object in the preparation of this Reader, has been to furnish for beginners a sufficient amount of the easiest and most interesting reading-matter to be found in purely classical writers. We have considered that, after a few month's careful training in the elements of the tongue,-for which the" Lessons," published last winter, were specially designed, - a good deal of time may best be devoted to mere translation, with the object of practising what has been already . learned, rather than of acquiring a greater mass of purely theoretical knowledge ; giving the most careful attention to accuracy, but leaving the nicer points of grammar for later study, except an occasional parsing lesson be had, so as to keep the learner in practice and the memory fresh. For the sake, however, of teachers who may prefer to use this as a drill-book, and of classes that may have no more extended course of Latin study in view, we have given copious references to the Grammar, cov

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