Method of Classical Study; Illustrated by Questions on a Few Selections from Latin and Greek Authors (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. 1874. Excerpt: ... sua modestia unus omnium maxime floreret, eaque esset aetate, ut jam non solum de eo of magnus? Is majorum a noun or an adjective? How does it come to mean ancestors? What word is understood with it? Origin of the j in majorum? 8 Why is sua used here and not ejus (208)? Derivation of modestia? Its meaning here? What word expresses its opposite? Gen. of unus? What other words have the same form in the Gen.? Force of unus here? What word is strengthened by it (127, N. 2)? Upon what word does the force of omnium fall, -. e., what word does it strengthen? Upon what word does the combined force of unus omnium fall? 9 How will the clause be translated if unus omnium is omitted? How if omnium? How as it is now written? Construction of omnium? Rule (212)? Could omnium be omitted without any loss to the expression? The origin of x in maxime?10 Of which conjugation is floreret? What determines to which conjugation a verb belongs? How comes the penult of the Inf. Act. of the second conjugation to be long, when the penult e of the Pres. Indie. (as doceo, floreo, etc.) is always short?11 Why floreret in the subjunctive (263, R. 2)? Why in the Impf.? Its subject? Meaning of ea here? The office of que? How differing from et (198, II., 1, R. a)? Does que ever stand alone? What is it called then (198, N. 1)? How is esset formed from sum?12 Construction of aetate (211, R. 6)? From what noun does aetate come? The Nom. aetas a contraction from what? What does ut connect? Is it always followed by the subjunctive? When is it (262, et seq.)? bene sperare, sed etiam confidere cives possent Force of jam? How differing from nunc (277, R. 15)?13 In the formula non solum sed etiam, is the transition from the less important to the more important, or the reverse (277, R. 10)? Wha...