A Manual of Latin Prose Composition Author:Henry Musgrave Wilkins General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: TABLE OF COMPARATIVE IDIOMS. English. 1. You and I. Caius and I. 2. / have a father. 3. I fear he will come. I fear he will not come. 4. And further -- besides -- etc. 5. He is capitally convicted. 6. To threaten Lucius with death. 7. All good citizens. 8. To utter many false hoods. 9. Worth while. 10. I came purposely. 11. He went to Sicily when consul. 12. The city of Carthage -- the isle of Malta. 13. It is the duty of a consul. It shows a clever man. It is the part of a brave man. It is for children to cry. It demands wisdom. Any man can be a fool. 14. Much land. Half the matter. Much wisdom. Latin. 1. I and you. I and Caius. 2. Est mihi pater. 3. Vereor ne veniat. Vereor ut veniat. 4. Accedit quod (indie.) ac- cedit ut (subjunctive). 5. Capitis [supplicio] dam- natur. 6. Mortem Lucio mini- tari. 7. Opt1mus quisque civis. 8. Multa mentiri. 9. Operae pretium. 10. Prudens veni. 11. Consul Sicilian! profectus est. 12. Urbs Carthago -- insula Melite. A consul. A clever man. A brave man. 13. It is of Children to cry. j Wisdom. I Any man (qui- l vis) to be a fool. 14. Multum terra. Dimidium facti. Multum prudentite. English. 15. Caesar says he has not done it. 16. Marius fought on horse back. 17. Within the memory of man. Since the foundation of Carthage. 18. Three hundred of us. The many defeats they have sustained. 19. This will be creditable to you. 20. To charge anything to a person as a fault. 21. It is a breach of duty. 22. He was the first to do this. He was the only one who did it. 23. To my, his, etc....« less