An introduction to Latin prose composition; Containing a systematic course of exercises on the syntax, with the principal rules of syntax, ... an English-Latin vocabulary to the exercises - Softcover

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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. 1885 Excerpt: ...non est, quae coactus 5a1a mStu promisSrit, One is not bound by those promieet which one has made under compulsion of fear.--Oio. Diviti&cus Caesarem obsecravit, ne quid gravius in fratrem statuSret, Divitiacus besought Caesar, not to resolve on anything too severe against his brother.--Caes. § 384. Quispiam is used like dliquis, hut with less emphasis: as, Forsltan allquis allquando ejusmOdi quidpiam fecSrit, Perhaps some one may have at some time done something 0/ the like.--Cic. § 385. Quldam, a certain one, denotes a person or thing of which no further definition is considered necessary or desirable: as, Quidam ex advOcatis intelllgSre Se dixit, non id agi, ut vErum invSniretur, One of the assistant counsel said he could see the object aimed at was not the discovery of truth.--Cic. Habitant hie quaedam mulierc&lae, There dweU here certain young women.--Ter. § 386. The substantive quisquam and the adjective alius, any one whatever, are used in negative propositions and in questions with the force of a negation, and with sine: as, Justltia nunquam nScet cuiquam, qui eam habet, Justice never harms any one who possesses it.--Cic. Sine sOciis nemo quidquam tale conatur, No one altempts anything of the tori without associates.--Cic. Sine virtute nEque amicltiam neque ullam rem expEtendam consSqui possflmus, Without virtue we cannot altain either to friendship or to any desirable object.--Cic. Quid est, quod quisquam dignum Pompeio afferre possit? What is lhere that any one can advance worthy of Pompey f--Cic. § 388. Quisque denotes each one by /nmse(di8tributively), and in principal sentences is always placed after se and suns: as, Stbi quisque maxlme consulit, Everybody consults his own interests above all.--Cic. Suae quemque fort...