Présentation de l'éditeur
These Demonstrations have been so used ;not, of course, exactly as they are written, but with each step, as far as possible, taken by means of questioning, more Socratico. The mistakes here guarded against are for the most part mistakes actually made by Sixth Form boys in doing the pieces under examination; many of the phrases, and some of the lines, are taken from the answers or the copies of the pupils. If any former pupil sees in this book a neat expression which came out of his own brain, I hope he will pardon the use I have made of it, and accept my thanks for the same. The exercises are to this extent graduated, that the easier ones come first, and last those which need a more extended knowledge and greater skill. In the first, moreover, the translation of a couplet is begun by writing down a number of synonyms for all the important words. This should always be done on the blackboard in practice, until the Form is sufficiently advanced to dispense with it; after which it will be sufficient to mention them viva voce. In the later exercises this part is supposed to be done in the mind. Each phrase, as its form is settled, should be written down on a second black board, if possible, and in its proper place in the line; the gaps will then be filled up in turn until the line is complete. In working alone, the student will find it useful to do this on a piece of paper.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Fi FA CE The aim of this book is to show by examples the process of translation into Latin Elegiac Verse. Collections of fair copies there are in plenty, and I should have been in no haste to add to their number: but this book is designed to show how the copies take shape out of chaos, why out of many possible renderings one is selected, what are the principles of the art. It is intended for the use of those who have worked through some elementary book, Penrose for instance, and are not ready to tackle the poems in Holdens collection. Such as these will, I hope, find benefit from reading the specimens here given ;and they cannot fail to learn a great deal from the collection of Ovidian lines in the I ntroduction. The book may also in some degree help to make up for lack of a competent teacher, in the case of students who have none. Nor am I without hope that some teachers may find the book useful. The common method of dictating a fair copy, with perhaps a few words of e.
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