Elegantiæ Latinæ; or Rules & exercises illustrative of elegant Latin style [by E. Valpy].A.J. Valpy. Sold by Messrs. Longmans; Baldwins; Whittakers, 1821 - 256 |
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... common English turn ; " for a speaker to have an irresistible hold , " is so perfectly English , that a literal translation would not be Latin , and means nothing more than " by speaking to hold , " dicendo tenere ; " to bend their ...
... common English turn ; " for a speaker to have an irresistible hold , " is so perfectly English , that a literal translation would not be Latin , and means nothing more than " by speaking to hold , " dicendo tenere ; " to bend their ...
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... common error , by the following observation , which , though coming more properly under the head of the order and arrangement of words , may be introduced in this place , as being applicable to almost every example in this book . It is ...
... common error , by the following observation , which , though coming more properly under the head of the order and arrangement of words , may be introduced in this place , as being applicable to almost every example in this book . It is ...
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... common conversation to have pronounced the language more according to metre , than it can be by us , who pronounce many syllables different from their quantity : as this hexameter of Tacitus : Urbem Romam à principio reges habuere . Or ...
... common conversation to have pronounced the language more according to metre , than it can be by us , who pronounce many syllables different from their quantity : as this hexameter of Tacitus : Urbem Romam à principio reges habuere . Or ...
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... common : Esse fautorem infimi generis hominum , ex quo ipse sit ; omnia onera , quæ communia quondam fuerint , in- clinasse in primores civitatis . Here the relative clauses do not express the sentiments of the author , Livy , but of ...
... common : Esse fautorem infimi generis hominum , ex quo ipse sit ; omnia onera , quæ communia quondam fuerint , in- clinasse in primores civitatis . Here the relative clauses do not express the sentiments of the author , Livy , but of ...
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... common calamity ; and if I had been present at it , I would not have been wanting to you , and I would have openly manifested and declared my own grief to you . * 3. But he employed the interval that followed , not in endeavouring to ...
... common calamity ; and if I had been present at it , I would not have been wanting to you , and I would have openly manifested and declared my own grief to you . * 3. But he employed the interval that followed , not in endeavouring to ...
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ablative absolute accusative adeò adjective adverb alius army arts atque bound Cæsar Catiline cause chiefly Cicero clause conjunction connexion copiousness cùm dative death dignity effect elegant elegantly placed eloquence enemy English enim Ennius etiam etsi EXAMPLES excellent expressed father followed fortune friends friendship genitive genius give greater greatest happy honor idea infinitive labor Latin Latin language learned liberal Livy meaning mihi mind nature necessary nemo neque nihil nisi nominative noun numbers observed omnis omnium orator participle perfect periphrasis perspicuity pleasure PLEONASM pluperfect Pompey praise preposition present pronoun quæ quàm quantus quid quidem Quintilian quis quisque quod reason received relative relative clause rendered Roman rules Sallust scholar sense sentence sometimes speaking style subjunctive subjunctive mood substantive sunt talis tamen tantus tence thing tibi tive verb verò virtue volo whole wisdom wish words write
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Strona 165 - Pra and pro for in comparison of; in respect of; in proportion to. 1. Our littleness, in comparison of the bigness of their bodies, is matter of contempt with most of the Gauls.
Strona 108 - JUSTUM et tenacem propositi virum Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instantis tyranni Mente quatit solida, neque Auster, Dux inquieti turbidus Adriae, 5 Nee fulminantis magna manus Jovis : Si fractus illabatur orbis, * Impavidum ferient ruinae.
Strona 133 - Latins seldom use non followed by nee or neque, but repeat either of the two latter. 1. After this battle, Caesar resolved not to give audience to their ambassadors, nor admit them to terms of peace, seeing they had treacherously applied for a truce, and afterwards wantonly broken it. 2. That part of your excuse in which you say, that your letters are always couched in the same words, from your poverty of expression, / do not understand, and do not approve.
Strona 213 - Beware, citizens, beware lest, as it was glorious for them to transmit so extensive an empire to posterity, Your inability to preserve and defend it prove not infamous for you. Though this past behaviour of thine was beyond all patience, Yet have I borne with it as I could. The structure of a period will be easily understood from these examples ; but as some difficulty will arise, where the simple idea does not immediately supply materials for the formation of the period, and as nothing contributes...
Strona 195 - ... of a sentence, where quod though seemingly redundant, must refer to the subject of the preceding sentence. EXAMPLES. *1. He had but too much reason to suspect that the continuance of the Roman army could be with no other design, than that of oppressing him.
Strona 55 - ... of more accomplished parts than any of them, and of great reputation by the part he acted against the court and the duke of Buckingham, in the parliament of the fourth year of the king, (the last parliament that had been before the short one in April,) and...
Strona 49 - This form seems to have been originally made use of in verbs which wanted a supine, and consequently a future of the infinitive, and to have been afterwards adopted more universally on account of the elegance of the variation. After the verbs to will, to wish, to desire, to suffer, and after tequum est, oportet, necesse est, sequitur, either ut or the accusative with the infinitive may be used indifferently.
Strona 63 - The force of these two rules may be more clearly and briefly illustrated by these two short examples, in which it is shown, when the ablative absolute may, or may not, be used : When the sun rises,, the moon withdraws her light. . . Here are two nominatives to two different divisions of a sentence, the first of which may be rendered by the ablative absolute : and, When the sun rises, it puts the stars to flight.
Strona 134 - Thus the quality of their food, their perpetual exercise, and free unconfined manner of life, (because being from their childhood fettered by no rules of duty or education, they acknowledge no law but will and pleasure) contribute to make them strong, and to render them of a gigantic size.
Strona 185 - ... great admirers of polite learning. Rocks and deserts re-echo sounds ; savage beasts are often soothed by music, and listen to its charms : and shall we, with all the advantages of the best education, be unaffected with the voice of poetry ? The...