to the force of tenses in the
Prohibitive.

Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have
been introduced. In its main lines the work remains unchanged.

ITHACA, NEW YORK,
October 16, 1907.

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FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

The object of this book is to present _the essential facts_ of Latin
grammar in a direct and simple manner, and within the smallest compass
consistent with scholarly standards. While intended primarily for the
secondary school, it has not neglected the needs of the college student,
and aims to furnish such grammatical information as is ordinarily required
in undergraduate courses.

The experience of foreign educators in recent years has tended to restrict
the size of school-grammars of Latin, and has demanded an incorporation of
the main principles of the language in compact manuals of 250 pages. Within
the past decade, several grammars of this scope have appeared abroad which
have amply met the most exacting demands.

The publication in this country of a grammar of similar plan and scope
seems fully justified at the present time, as all recent editions of
classic texts summarize in introductions the special idioms of grammar and
style peculiar to individual authors. This makes it feasible to dispense
with the enumeration of many _minutiae_ of usage which would otherwise
demand consideration in a student's grammar.

In the chapter on Prosody, I have designedly omitted all special treatment
of the lyric metres of Horace and Catullus, as well as of the measures of
the comic poets. Our standard editions of these authors all give such
thorough consideration to versification that repetition in a separate place
seems superfluous.

ITHACA, NEW YORK,
December 15, 1894.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Introduction--The Latin language

PART I.

SOUNDS, ACCENT, QUANTITY, ETC.

The Alphabet Sec. 1
Classification of Sounds Sec. 2
Sounds of the Letters Sec. 3
Syllables Sec. 4
Quantity Sec. 5
Accent Sec. 6
Vowel Changes Sec. 7
Consonant Changes Sec. 8
Peculiarities of Orthography Sec. 9

PART II.

INFLECTIONS.

CHAPTER I.--_Declension._

A. NOUNS. Sec. 10

Gender of Nouns Sec. 13
Number Sec. 16
Cases Sec. 17
The Five Declensions Sec. 18
First Declension Sec. 20
Second Declension Sec. 23
Third Declension Sec. 28
Fourth Declension Sec. 48
Fifth Declension Sec. 51