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A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition
A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition Author:Thomas Kerchever Arnold, Jesse Ames Spencer 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: 85. The following are instances :— Final, . . Hue veni, ut te viderem. I came here in order to see you. Consecutive, . Humi cecidit ut crus frangeret. ... more » He fell on the ground so as to breaK his leg. Temporal, . Quum haec dixisset, abire voluit. When he had spoken thus, he wished to depart. Causal, . . Quod haecfecisli, gratias tibi ago. I return thanks to you for acting thus. Conditional, . Si hoc feceris poenas dabis. If you do this you will be punished. Concessive, . Quanquam festlno, tamen hie morabor. Though I am in haste, yet I will delay here. Comparative Proinde ac meritus es te utar. or Modal, j I will deal with you as you have deserved. In each case the subordinate clause, or its substitute in English, is in italic letters, the main clause in Eoman. ORDER OF WORDS AND CLAUSES IN A LATIN SENTENCE. 86. The order of words in a Latin sentence differs, in many important respects, from the English order. There are very few sentences in which the natural order of one language corresponds to that of the other. There is much greater freedom and variety in Latin, especially as regards substantives, adjectives, pronouns, and verbs. For these parts of speech are each susceptible of a great variety of changes in their terminations, called inflexions. It is these inflexions, and not their place in the sentence, which mark the relations of words to other words. As we have far fewer of these inflexions in English, we are obliged to look for the precise meaning of a word, not to Us form but to its position. 87. If we take the English sentence, " The soldier saw the enemy," we cannot invert the order of the two substantives, and write " The enemy saw the soldier," without entirely changing the meaning; but in Latin we may write miles vi...« less