180

LXXIII. VOCABULARY REVIEW--THE IRREGULAR VERB fero--
_Dative with Compounds_ 181-183

LXXIV. VOCABULARY REVIEW--_Subjunctive in Indirect
Questions_ 183-185

LXXV. VOCABULARY REVIEW--_Dative of Purpose or End for
Which_ 185-186

LXXVI. VOCABULARY REVIEW--_Genitive and Ablative of
Quality or Description_ 186-188

LXXVII. REVIEW OF AGREEMENT--_Review of the Genitive,
Dative, and Accusative_ 189-190

LXXVIII. REVIEW OF THE ABLATIVE 191-192

LXXIX. REVIEW OF THE SYNTAX OF VERBS 192-193

READING MATTER

INTRODUCTORY SUGGESTIONS 194-195

THE LABORS OF HERCULES 196-203

P. CORNELIUS LENTULUS: THE STORY OF A ROMAN BOY 204-215

APPENDIXES AND VOCABULARIES

APPENDIX I. TABLES OF DECLENSIONS, CONJUGATIONS, NUMERALS,
ETC. 226-260

APPENDIX II. RULES OF SYNTAX 261-264

APPENDIX III. REVIEWS 265-282

SPECIAL VOCABULARIES 283-298

LATIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY 299-331

ENGLISH-LATIN VOCABULARY 332-343

INDEX 344-348

LATIN FOR BEGINNERS

TO THE STUDENT--BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

What is Latin? If you will look at the map of Italy on the opposite
page, you will find near the middle of the peninsula and facing the west
coast a district called Latium,[1] and Rome its capital. The Latin
language, meaning the language of Latium, was spoken by the ancient
Romans and other inhabitants of Latium, and Latin was the name applied
to it after the armies of Rome had carried the knowledge of her language
far beyond its original boundaries. As the English of to-day is not
quite the same as that spoken two or three hundred years ago, so Latin
was not always the same at all times, but changed more or less in the
course of centuries. The sort of Latin you are going to learn was in use
about