"Non ego cuncta meis amplecti versibus opto:
"Non, mihi si linguæ centum sint, oraque centum,
"Ferrea vox. Ades, et primi lege littoris oram." VIRG.

LATIN PRIMER:

PART I.

RULES OF CONSTRUCTION;

(Very fully and elegantly exemplified from the Latin Poets)

By which the Learner may in a short Time be taught to read the

Latin Authors with Judgment and Precision.

IN

A LARGE AND PLAIN

DESCRIPTION OF THE LATIN VERSE,

And of many Kinds of Composition in Verse.

A summary Account of TERENCE'S METRES; and a more minute one

of the METRA HORATIANA;

THREE PARTS.

PART II.

RULES OF POSITION;

Teaching the Classic Way of writing Latin, with regard to the

Arrangement of Words, according to the peculiar Idioms'

and Customs of the Latin Tongue.

PART III.

With a Table designed to give a ready and perfect Knowledge
of all HORACE'S METRES at one View.

REV. RICHARD LYNE,

RECTOR OF LITTLE PETHERICK; AND LATE MASTER OF THE
GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LISKEARD.

BY THE

THE EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER,

AVE-MARIA-LANE.