New Latin Grammar

New Latin Grammar

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NEW LATIN GRAMMAR
BY
CHARLES E. BENNETT
Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin in Cornell University
_Quicquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta_ _Percipiant animi dociles teneantque
fideles:_ _Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat._ --HORACE, Ars Poetica.
COPYRIGHT, 1895; 1908; 1918 BY CHARLES E. BENNETT
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PREFACE.
The present work is a revision of that published in 1908. No radical alterations have been
introduced, although a number of minor changes will be noted. I have added an
Introduction on the origin and development of the Latin language, which it is hoped will
prove interesting and instructive to the more ambitious pupil. At the end of the book will
be found an Index to the Sources of the Illustrative Examples cited in the Syntax.
C.E.B.
ITHACA, NEW YORK, May 4, 1918
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The present book is a revision of my Latin Grammar originally published in 1895.

Wherever greater accuracy or precision of statement seemed possible, I have endeavored
to secure this. The rules for syllable division have been changed and made to conform to
the prevailing practice of the Romans themselves. In the Perfect Subjunctive Active, the
endings _-Ä«s_, _-Ä«mus_, _-Ä«tis_ are now marked long. The theory of vowel length
before the suffixes -gnus, -gna, -gnum, and also before j, has been discarded. In the
Syntax I have recognized a special category of Ablative of Association, and have
abandoned the original doctrine as to the force of tenses in the Prohibitive.
Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have been introduced.
In its main lines the work remains unchanged.
ITHACA, NEW YORK, October 16, 1907.
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FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
The object of this book is to present the essential facts of Latin grammar in a direct and
simple manner, and within the smallest compass consistent with scholarly standards.
While intended primarily for the secondary school, it has not neglected the needs of the
college student, and aims to furnish such grammatical information as is ordinarily
required in undergraduate courses.
The experience of foreign educators in recent years has tended to restrict the size of
school-grammars of Latin, and has demanded an incorporation of the main principles of
the language in compact manuals of 250 pages. Within the past decade, several grammars
of this scope have appeared abroad which have amply met the most exacting demands.
The publication in this country of a grammar of similar plan and scope seems fully
justified at the present time, as all recent editions of classic texts summarize in
introductions the special idioms of grammar and style peculiar to individual authors. This
makes it feasible to dispense with the enumeration of many minutiae of usage which
would otherwise demand consideration in a student's grammar.
In the chapter on Prosody, I have designedly omitted all special treatment of the lyric
metres of Horace and Catullus, as well as of the measures of the comic poets. Our
standard editions of these authors all give such thorough consideration to versification
that repetition in a separate place seems superfluous.
ITHACA, NEW YORK, December 15, 1894.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Introduction--The Latin language


PART I.
SOUNDS, ACCENT, QUANTITY, ETC.
The Alphabet § 1 Classification of Sounds § 2 Sounds of the Letters § 3 Syllables
§ 4 Quantity § 5 Accent § 6 Vowel Changes § 7 Consonant Changes § 8
Peculiarities of Orthography § 9

PART II.
INFLECTIONS.


CHAPTER I.
--_Declension._
A. NOUNS. § 10
Gender of Nouns § 13 Number § 16 Cases § 17 The Five Declensions § 18 First
Declension § 20 Second Declension § 23 Third Declension § 28 Fourth Declension
§ 48 Fifth Declension § 51 Defective Nouns § 54
B. ADJECTIVES. § 62
Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions § 63 Adjectives of the Third Declension
§ 67 Comparison of Adjectives § 71 Formation and Comparison of Adverbs § 76
Numerals § 78
C. PRONOUNS. § 82
Personal Pronouns § 84 Reflexive Pronouns § 85 Possessive Pronouns § 86
Demonstrative Pronouns § 87 The Intensive Pronoun § 88 The Relative Pronoun §
89