Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition: (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics)

Thomas Kerchever Arnold's Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition first appeared in 1839 and was reprinted in several editions due to popular demand, being adopted as a textbook in leading public schools. Ordained as a priest in 1827 after graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1821, Arnold had studied both theology and classics, and wrote prolifically on both subjects. His first school textbook was published in 1836 and others followed steadily until his death in 1853. One of the chief merits of Arnold's classical publications was his use of contemporary works of German scholarship, to which he readily acknowledged his debt. He produced, alongside Latin and Greek textbooks, grammars of English, French, German, Italian, and Hebrew, and editions of many Greek and Latin authors. This introduction was designed to provide students with the basic tools with which to construct sentences and includes exercises on syntax and a vocabulary index.

Table of Contents:
Preparatory tables; 1. Nominative case and verb; 2. Accusative with infinitive; 3. Accusative with infinitive continued; 4. Agreement of adjective with substantive; 5. The relative; 6. Infinitive used substantively; 7 Relative continued; 8. Relative continued; 9. Relative continued; 10. Ut, ne expressing a purpose; 11. Ut expressing a consequence; 12. English infinitive translated by ut with subj.; 13. Ut, &c. continued; 14. Quin after negative sentences; 15. Quominus; 16. Interrogative sentences; 17. Interrogative words; 18. Dependent questions; 19. Double questions; 20. May, can, &c. as principal verbs; 21. Apposition; 22. Nominative after the verb; 23. Dative after esse; 24. The genitive; 25. The genitive continued; 26. The genitive after adjectives; 27. The genitive continued; 28. The genitive continued; 29. The genitive continued; 30. The dative; 31. The dative continued; 32. The dative continued; 33. The dative continued; 34. Verbs that take a second dative; 35. The accusative; 36. The accusative continued; 37. The ablative; 38. The ablative continued; 39. The vocative; 40. The passive voice; 41. The passive voice continued; 42. Time; 43. Place; 44. Gerunds and partic. in dus; 45. Participles; 46. Participles continued; 47. Participles continued; 48. Pronouns; 49. Pronouns continued; 50. Pronouns continued; 51. Pronouns continued; 52. Comparison; 53. Remarks on some of the tenses; 54. Remarks on the tenses continued; 55. Forms of conditional propositions; 56. Conditional propositions continued; 57. Conditional propositions in dependent sentences; 58. On oblique narration; 59. Oblique narration continued; 60. Qui with subjunctive; 61. Qui with the subjunctive continued; 62. Quum with the indicative; 63. Antequam and priusquam; 64. Dum, donec, quoad, &c.; 65. Quod; 66. The Roman calendar; 67. Connection of propositions by the relative, &c.; 68. On the Roman way of reckoning money; 69. On the division of the As, &c.; Table of differences of idioms, &c.; Questions on the cautions; Questions on the syntax; Indexes.