Arnold's First Latin Book; Remodelled & Rewritten & Adapted to the Ollendorff Method of Instruction (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. 1862 Excerpt: ...5, um, divine. FuturQs, a, jm, future. Gravis, e, heavy. Impendere, to overhang, to threaten. Ignoratio, onls, ignorance. Malum, I, an evil. Pretiosus, a, um, valuable. Quam, than. Quam maxlmus, a, um, as great as possible. RatiS, onls, reason. Scientia, ae, knowledge. Turns, is, tower. 311. Exercises. (a) 1. Aurum gravius est argento. 2. Ignoratio futurorum malorum utilior est quam scientia. 3. Difficilllmum est iram placare. 4. In summis montibus10 acerrimum est frigus. 5. Veniunt ut copias comparent. 6. Venit ut quam maxlmas8 copias compararet. 7. Turris est altior muro. 8. Quid est in homine ratione divinius?-9. Mons altissimus impendebat. 10. Cicero erat orator celeberrimus. 11. Eomani ampliores copias exspectabant. (b) 1. Gold is very heavy. 2. Gold is more valua ble than silver. 3. Wisdom is more valuable than gold and silver. 4. You are building a very high wall. 5. You have your wall higher than your tower. 6. We shall raise very large forces. 7. You have raised larger forces than the king himself. 8. We have come to raise as large forces as possible.9 9 Let them raise as large forces as possible. 10. It if.' very easy to keep one's word. 11. It is easier to keep'one's word than to appease anger. 12. Who was more celebrated than Cicero? 13. He was a very celebrated orator.-LESSON LY Compounds of Esse.--Comparison of Adverbs.--Numeral Adjectives. i. 312. The compounds of esse (except posse, to be able, which is irregular, and will be noticed hereafter) are conjugated like the simple esse, prodesse, however (compounded of pro, for, and esse, to be), inserts d after pro in those parts which, in the simple verb begin with e; as, Pres. Prosum, proves, prodest, prosfimus, prodestis, prosunt, &c. 313. The compounds of esse (except posse) are followed ...