A Grammar of the Latin Language for Middle and Higher Class Schools (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...Athenas, he arrived in the city of Athens. Note 2.--In English we sometimes say "at" or "in a town," where in Latin the idea of motion contained in ahe verb requires the accusative, as: Romam'convenerunt or advenerunt, they met or arrived at Rome; he went to Themistocles at Athens, profectus est Athenas ad Themiatoclem. 145. The accusative without a preposition is used both with verbs and adjectives to express duration of time and extension of space in answer to the questions How long 1 how far 1 how high t how low t how deep? how broad 1 e.g.: Luscinia totamfere noclem canit. The nightingale sings almost the whole night. Troia decem annos oppugnata est. Troy was besieged for ten years. Trabes inter sebinospedesdistabant. The beams were three feet apart from one another. Zama quinque dierum iter a Car-Zama is five days' journey from thagine abest. Carthage. Turris centum pedes aha. A tower one hundred feet high. Fossa trecentos pedes longa. A trench three hundred feet long, The participle natus (born) takes the accusative of the time that a person has been born--that is, describing his age, as: Decem annos natus est. He is ten years old. Cyrus quadraginta annos natus reg-Cyrus began to reign at the age nare coepit. of forty. Note 1.--Duration of time is sometimes expressed by the preposition per with the accusative, especially when it is to be intimated that the time is a long one, as per decem annos, for ten long years. Sometimes duration of time is expressed by the ablative, either with or without a preposition, as pugnaium est horis quinque, fighting was going on for five hours. The verbs abesse and distare (to be distant) also sometimes take the ablative, as: bidui spatio aberam ab eo, I was a two days' march distant from him;...