LATIN PRIMER:

THREE PARTS.

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.

PART II.

RULES OF POSITION;

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

Arrangement of Words, according to the peculiar Idioins

and Customs of the Latin Tongue.

PART III.

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;

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

BY THE

REV. RICHARD LYNE,

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

THE EIGHTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GEO. B. WHITTAKER,

AVE-MARIA-LANE.

THE peculiar object of Part I. of this Book is, by various expedients, to secure the child's own good will and attention to the proper mode of learning and for this purpose all difficulties, though not all occasions of exertion, have been carefully obviated for him.

BOOL LIBR
24. JAN. 1910
OXFORD

Printed by R. Gilbert, St. John's-square, London.

Memoriæ

HENRICI KIRKE WHITE,

de Nottingamia,

et nuper

de Coll. Div. Joan. in Acad. Cantab.

hanc octavam imprimis

et omnes in posteris editiones
hujusce libelli

(cujus usui præcipue

illustris et in cœlis tandem beatus

(The First Edition.)

R. L. VIRGILIO SUO S.

OLIM, mi Virgili, sic jubeat Deus! tute ipse hune librum sis forsan lecturus. Tibi ergo præ omnibus inscriptum volo. Nam et tui gratia composui: et ut scriptores fere, quos ambiunt, dedicationibus aucupantur, sie te pater. Una enim sola excepta, omnium mihi tum curæ tum gaudii participe, et cui me quotidie et in horas devinctiorem habeo; illa sola excepta, quis est, nisi tu es, cum quo gratiam me potius inire decet? Et a quo plus expectationis habere possim, quam de te, dulcissime infantule, qui nunc e cunabulis, matrem risu cognoscens, et ipse subridens amabiliter, parenti pectus tacitum novis pertentas gaudiis; et qui mecum venturis annis, si posthac pariter hujus vitæ tranemus æquor, adeo es UNUM futurus, ut uter sit pater vel filius,

"Mire sagaces falleret hospites

"Discrimen obscurum."

HOR.

Imo etiam, iisdem studiis, tum disciplina, Christi scilicet, et amore connexi (sie me spes lactat) et pater et filius nobis invicem erimus, et amicus, et frater.