Latin for beginners (1911)/Contents

by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge

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CONTENTS

lesson		page
To the Student — By way of Introduction		1-4
PART I. THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN
Alphabet, Sounds of the Letters, Syllables, Quantity, Accent, How to Read Latin		5-11
PART II. WORDS AND FORMS
I, II, III, IV,V, VI.	First Principles — Subject and Predicate, Inflection, Number, Nominative Subject, Possessive Genitive, Agreement of Verb, Direct Object, Indirect Object, etc. — Dialogue	12-24
VII-VIII.	First or Ā-Declension — Gender, Agreement of Adjectives, Word Order	25-30
IX-X.	Second or O-Declension — General Rules for Declension — Predicate Noun, Apposition — Dialogue	31-35
XI.	Adjectives of the First and Second Declensions	36-37
XII.	Nouns in -ius and -ium — Germānia	38-39
XIII.	Second Declension (Continued) — Nouns in -er and -ir — Italia — Dialogue	39-41
XIV.	Possessive Adjective Pronouns	42-43
XV.	Ablative denoting With — Cause, Means, Accompaniment, Manner — The Romans Prepare for War	44-46
XVI.	The Nine Irregular Adjectives	46-47
XVII.	The Demonstrative is, ea, id — Dialogue	48-50
XVIII.	Conjugation — Present, Imperfect, and Future of sum — Dialogue	51-53
XIX.	Present Active Indicative of amō and moneō	54-56
XX.	Imperfect Active Indicative of amō and moneō — Meaning of the Imperfect — Niobe and her Children.	56-57
XXI.	Future Active Indicative of amō and moneō — Niobe and her Children (Concluded)	58-59
XXII.	Review of Verbs — The Dative with Adjectives — Cornelia and her Jewels	59-61
XXIII.	Present Active Indicative of regō and audiō — Cornelia and her Jewels (Concluded)	61-63
XXIV.	Imperfect Active Indicative of regō and audiō — The Dative with Special Intransitive Verbs	63-65
XXV.	Future Active Indicative of of regō and audiō	65-66
XXVI.	Verbs in -iō — Present, Imperfect, and Future Active Indicative of capiō — The Imperative	66-68
XXVII.	Passive Voice — Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative of amō and moneō — Perseus and Andromeda	68-72
XXVIII.	Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Passive of regō and audiō — Perseus and Andromeda (Continued)	72-73
XXIX.	Present, Imperfect, and Future Indicative Passive of -iō Verbs — Present Passive Infinitive and Imperative	73-75
XXX.	Synopses in the Four Conjugations — The Ablative denoting From — Place from Which, Separation , Personal Agent	75-78
XXXI.	Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect of sum — Dialogue	79-81
XXXII.	Perfect Active Indicative of the Four Regular Conjugations — Meaning of the Perfect — Perseus and Andromeda (Continued)	81-83
XXXIII.	Pluperfect and Future Perfect Active Indicative — Perfect Active Infinitive	84-85
XXXIV.	Review of the Active Voice — Perseus and Andromeda (Concluded)	86-87
XXXV.	Passive Perfects of the Indicative — Perfect Passive and Future Active Infinitive	88-90
XXXVI.	Review of Principal Parts — Prepositions, Yes-or-No Questions	90-93
XXXVII.	Conjugation of possum — The Infinitive used as in English — Accusative Subject of an Infinitive — The Faithless Tarpeia	93-96
XXXVIII.	The Relative Pronoun and the Interrogative Pronoun — Agreement of the relative — The Faithless Tarpeia (Concluded)	97-101
XXXIX-XLI.	The Third Declension — Consonant Stems	101-106
XLII.	Review Lesson — Terror Cimbricus	107
XLIII.	Third Declension — I-Stems	108-110
XLIV.	Irregular Nouns of the Third Declension — Gender in the Third Declension— The First Bridge over the Rhine	111-112
XLV.	Adjectives of the Third Declension— The Romans Invade the Enemy's Country	113-115
XLVI.	The Fourth or U-Declension 116-117
XLVII.	Expressions of Place — Place to Which, Place from Which, Place at or in Which, the Locative — Declension of domus — Dædalus and Icarus	117-121
XLVIII.	The Fifth or Ē-Declension — Ablative of Time — Dædalus and Icarus (Continued)	121-123
XLIX.	Pronouns — Personal and Reflexive Pronouns — Dædalus and Icarus (Concluded)	123-126
L.	The Intensive Pronoun ipse and the Demonstrative īdem — How Horatius Held the Bridge	126-127
LI.	The Demonstratives hic, iste, ille — A German Chieftain Addresses his Followers — How Horatius Held the Bridge (Continued)	128-130
LII.	The Indefinite Pronouns — How Horatius Held the Bridge (Concluded)	130-132
LIII.	Regular Comparison of Adjectives	133-i35
LIV.	Irregular Comparison of Adjectives — Ablative with Comparatives	135-136
LV.	Irregular Comparison of Adjectives (Continued) — Declension of plūs	137-138
LVI.	Irregular Comparison of Adjectives (Concluded) — Ablative of the Measure of Difference	138-139
LVII.	Formation and Comparison of Adverbs	140-142
LVIII.	Numerals — Partitive Genitive	142-144
LIX.	Numerals (Continued) — Accusative of Extent — Cæsar in Gaul	144-146
LX.	Deponent Verbs — Prepositions with the Accusative	146-147
PART III. CONSTRUCTIONS
LXI.	The Subjunctive Mood — Inflection of the Present — Indicative and Subjunctive Compared	148-151
LXII.	The Subjunctive of Purpose	151-153
LXIII.	Inflection of the Imperfect Subjunctive — Sequence of Tenses	153-155
LXIV.	Inflection of the Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive — Substantive Clauses of Purpose	156-159
LXV.	Subjunctive of possum — Verbs of Fearing	160-161
LXVI.	The Participles — Tenses and Declension	161-164
LXVII.	The Irregular Verbs volō, nōlō, mālō — ablative Absolute	164-166
LXVIII.	The Irregular Verb fiō — Subjunctive of Result	167-168
LXIX.	Subjunctive of Characteristic — Predicate Accusative	169-171
LXX.	Constructions with cum — Ablative of Specification	171-173
LXXI.	Vocabulary Review — Gerund and Gerundive — Predicate Genitive	173-177
LXXII.	The Irregular Verb eō — Indirect Statements	177-180
LXXIII.	Vocabulary Review — The Irregular Verb ferō — Dative with Compounds	181-183
LXXIV.	Vocabulary Reviews — Subjunctive in Indirect Questions	183-185
LXXV.	Vocabulary Review — Dative of Purpose or End for Which	185-186
LXXVI.	Vocabulary Review — Genitive and Ablative of Quality or Description	186-188
LXXVII.	Review of Agreement — Review of the Genitive, Dative, and Accusative	189-190
LXXVIII.	Review of the Ablative	191-192
LXXIX.	Review of the Syntax of Verbs	192-193
READING MATTER
Introductory Suggestions		194-195
The Labors of Hercules		196-203
P. Cornelius Lentulus: The Story of a Roman Boy		204-225
APPENDIXES AND VOCABULARIES
Appendix I. Tables of Declensions, Conjugations, Numerals, etc		226-260
Appendix II. Rules of Syntax		261-264
Appendix III. Reviews		265-282
Special Vocabularies		283-298
Latin-English Vocabulary		299-331
English-Latin Vocabulary		332-343
INDEX		344-348