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Gai Salvsti Crispi De Catilinae conivratione
Gai Salvsti Crispi De Catilinae conivratione Author:Sallust Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LATlN TEXT-BOOKS. Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammar. For Schools and Colleges. Founded on comparative grammar, revised and enlarged by James Bradstreet G... more »reenough assisted by George L. Kittredge, Professors in Harvard University. Copyright Edition of 1888. 12mo. Half leather, xiii + 488 pages. Mailing Price, $1.30. For introduction, ?.20. Allowance for an old book in exchange, 40 cents. ???? object of issuing a new edition is to give the latest results of special study in this department, and to make in the grammar whatever improvements have been suggested by ten years' use under the most varied conditions. The aim of the editors and publishers has been to make the grammar as perfect as such a book possibly can be. No less ambition would have justified undertaking any revision of a work so popular and satisfactory. The method of the revision has kept the needs of the class-room always in view. The editors have striven to combine scientific accuracy with clearness and simplicity of statement. The language of the book has been subjected to the closest scrutiny throughout, and no pains has been spared to make the rules intelligible and quotable, without, however, conceding anything to mechanical ways of presenting grammar. The size of the book has been somewhat increased, but teachers will find that the matter has been simplified. Simplification has sometimes brought expansion with it. Things taken for granted or merely suggested in the old edition have frequently been expressly stated in the revision. Much new matter worthy of special attention will be found. In many particulars the new grammar will be recognized as marking a substantial advance. Attention is invited, for example, to the chapter on Word-Formation ; the treatment of sum and the other temporal pa...« less