A New Method of Learning with Facility the Latin Tongue (Volume 1); Containing the Rules of Genders, Declensions, Preterites, Syntax, Quantity, and - 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. 1797. Excerpt: ... runs. Plaut. as we still fay, Acbermte, fame name. So that when Virg. in or Acbennli aliquid fieri; to signify in Culice fays hell. Alma Cbimareo Xantbus ftrfuja liquore; Jadxk, neuter. tefidum Jader. it is more likely, that he meant this Lucan. city which is mentioned by all ancient-Nar. Lacus VtTmus in Nar dtfiuit, geographers and historians, Herodo Cic whereas Tacitus taking it in the tus, Dion, Pliny, Strabo, Ptolemeus, masculine, says Nartm, and so do a great and others, than as form: commen many others. For which reason Cluveri-tators pretend, that this is the name of us in his division of ancient Italy thinks the river, which he took in the temi that this passage of Cicero is corrupted, nine. But Vossius defends it by the authority of almost all manuscript and printed co-Names of.Mountains. pies, and fays that the authority of Cicero is preferable to that of Tacitus and These likewise most commonly fo!all the rest. And as to Virgil, when he low the gender of the termination. For fays: if Ossa is masculine in Ovid, it is audiit amnh feminine in Lucan. And if Oeta is Sulphured Nar albus aqua; m-isculine in Seneca, it is feminine in it is evident that albus may be referred Ovid and Claud, and both are feminine to amnis, which goes before; or if it re-in Statius. fers to Nar, this must be done by a syl-Othryx is masculine in Lucan and lepsis, apprehending it under the general in Statius, and feminine in Greek. T! word river. i5?ix; opi/e, Strabo. Xanthus. There is no manner of Æthn A is always feminine, doubt, but it is always masculine, when And so is Ida in Virg. taken for the river of Troy, or even for Most of the others follow the gender that of Lycia, which falling down from of the termination, according to our mount Cadmus watered a city of ...

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