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Bradley’s ARNOLD LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION Edited by J. F. Mountford Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. Wauconda, IL 60084 CCopyrightPg.011105.inddopyrightPg.011105.indd 1 55/13/2005/13/2005 111:07:521:07:52 AAMM BRADLEY’S ARNOLD LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION Edited and Revised with an Appendix on Continuous Prose Composition by SIR JAMES MOUNTFORD 1938 David McKay Company, Inc. & Longmans, Green and Co. 2005 Edition Foreword and Updates Donald Sprague Cover Design Adam Phillip Velez Typesetting Dominic Roberti Foreword, Revisions, Typography, Cover © 2005 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. BOLCHAZY-CARDUCCI PUBLISHERS, INC. 1000 Brown Street Wauconda, IL 60084 USA www.bolchazy.com Printed in the United States of America 2005 by printer name here ISBN 0-86516-595-5 ———————————————————————————————————— Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Arnold, Thomas Kerchever, 1800-1853. Bradley’s Arnold Latin prose composition / edited and revised with an appendix on continuous prose composition by Sir James Mountford.-- 1st ed. p. cm. Includes indexes. Rev. ed. of Bradley’s Arnold, 1938. ISBN 0-86516-595-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Latin language--Composition and exercises. 2. Latin language-- Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc. I. Mountford, J. F. (James Frederick), b. 1897. II. Bradley, George Granville, 1821-1903. III. Bradley’s Arnold. IV. Title. PA2313.A76 2005 808’.0471--dc22 2004029648 CCopyrightPg.011105.inddopyrightPg.011105.indd 2 55/13/2005/13/2005 111:08:281:08:28 AAMM vii Foreword Bring up the topic of Latin prose composition and Bradley’s Arnold is the textbook most often mentioned in response. It’s an almost guaranteed word association match! Indeed, for generations of Latin students, Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose Composition served as the bible for rendering English into proper Latin. Surf the internet today, and you’ll find that this classic continues as a key- stone for scores of Latin programs in the United States and throughout the English-speaking world. Latin prose composition for the serious Latin student is a compelling undertaking, one that many consider the sine qua non for really mastering Latin. Some deem it the most effective means for internalizing Latin sen- tence structure and developing a sophisticated understanding of Latin gram- mar and syntax. The student who has personally tried to render English prose into Latin may bring to Latin literature a far greater sensitivity, a more profound appreciation, and a fuller depth of insight and understand- ing. Bradley’s Arnold is a comprehensive review of Latin grammar in the service of Latin prose composition. Its explanations are precise and thor- ough. Its lessons, complete with exercises for practice, lead the student to a gradual mastery of the intricacies of Latin language production, moving methodically from the fairly simple to the increasingly complex and lengthy. The text culminates in a series of continuous prose passages added when J. F. Mountford revised the text in 1938. To follow in the footsteps of Mountford and Bradley in revising the venerable Arnold was a singularly humbling experience. Thus, with due reverence, I undertook the daunting task of maintaining the integrity of Arnold’s text while updating it for the modern student. To that end, this new edition offers a redesigned format, one easier on the eye and more user- friendly. We have “opened up” the text through more generous spacing for a less dense and more accessible text. Nomenclature like “indirect dis- ix xÐÐForeward course” and “purpose clause,” more common to the American student, stands side-by-side with Arnold’s original terms. Most of the British spellings remain with a minimum of modernization, while the auxiliary verbs used in conditions have been changed to reflect standard American English usage. The text retains one remnant of a bygone era that, had it not been so extensively and intricately interwoven into the text, I would have purged: the patina of the English school boy. In the interest of time econo- my only, I resisted the inclination to render the text’s pronouns more inclu- sively. I am grateful to the Doctors Bolchazy, Lou and Marie, for the opportu- nity to join them in their vocation of making the classics more accessible and available; to Laurie Haight Keenan and Jody Cull for their patience in introducing me to publishing production; to Jennifer Mitten and Jennifer Hilliard, for their invaluable assistance with proofreading; to Dom Roberti for his patience with me and his painstaking-attention-to-detail typesetting; and to the late Rev. John Waterbury Kelley, SJ, whose Latin I and II class- es at Boston College High School first sparked in me a love of Latin and the classics. Donald E. Sprague November, 2004 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Parts of Speech . .1 Analysis of the Sentence . .10 Order of Words and Clauses . .15 EXERCISES I Elementary Rules . .21 II Meaning of Words and Phrases . .26 III Meaning and Use of Words: Verbs . .30 IV Agreement of Subject and Verb . .34 V Accusative with Infinitive, ør§ti« Obl¿qua (Indirect Discourse) . .36 VI Accusative with Infinitive . .40 VII Nominative with Infinitive . .43 VIII Adjectives—Agreement, Use as Nouns, etc. .47 IX Adjectives and Adverbs . .53 X The Relative . .57 XI The Relative . .61 XII Correlatives . .64 XIII The Infinitive as a Noun . .69 XIV Final Clauses (Purpose Clauses)—Sequence of Tenses . .72 XV Consecutive Clauses (Result Clauses) . .76 XVI Ut, N¡, Introducing a Noun Clause . .81 XVII Qu«minus, Qu¿n—Verbs of Fearing . .88 XVIII Commands and Prohibitions . .93 XIX Remarks on Moods—Subjunctive Used Independently . .96 XX Interrogative Sentences—Direct . .101 XXI Interrogative Sentences—Dependent or Indirect . .107 XXII Interrogative Sentences—Dependent or Indirect . .111 XXIII Tenses of the Indicative . .115 XXIV How to translate Can, Could, May, Might, Shall, Must, etc. .122 XXV Remarks on the Cases—the Nominative . .126 XXVI Apposition . .131 XXVII The Accusative . .134 XXVIII The Accusative II—Cognate and Predicative . .138 XXIX The Dative I—with Verbs . .141 XXX The Dative II—with Verbs . .146 XXXI The Dative III—with Adjectives and Adverbs . .149 XXXII The Dative IV—Further Uses of the Dative . .151 XXXIII The Ablative . .155 XXXIV The Ablative . .160 XXXV The Ablative . .164 XXXVI The Genitive—The Possessive Genitive . .167 xiiÐÐContents XXXVII The Genitive—The Partitive Genitive . .171 XXXVIII The Genitive—Subjective and Objective . .174 XXXIX The Genitive—Quality and Definition . .177 XL The Genitive—Genitive with Verbs . .180 XLI Place, Space . .184 XLII Expressions of Time . .188 XLIII Prepositions—General Remarks; Prepositions with Accusative . .193 XLIV Prepositions with Ablative . .198 XLV Pronouns—Personal and Demonstrative . .201 XLVI Pronouns—Reflexive and Emphatic . .207 XLVII Pronouns—Indefinite . .211 XLVIII A Pronouns—‡dem, Alius, etc. .215 XLVIII B Pronouns—Quisque, Uterque, etc. .219 XLIX Gerund and Gerundive . .223 XL Gerund and Gerundive—Oblique Cases . .227 LI The Supines . .231 LII Participles . .233 LIII The Ablative Absolute . .239 LIV Temporal Clauses—General Rules, Cum . .242 LV Temporal Clauses—Dum, D«nec, Priusquam, etc. .246 LVI ør§ti« Obl¿qua (Indirect Discourse) . .250 LVII Conditional Clauses . .254 LVIII Conditional Clauses . .260 LIX Conditional Clauses in ør§ti« Obl¿qua (Indirect Discourse) . .265 LX Concessive Clauses . .272 LXI Causal and Explanatory Clauses . .275 LXII Comparative Clauses . .278 LXIII Qu¿-Clauses—Final (Purpose) and Consecutive (Result) . .286 LXIV Qu¿-Clauses—Causal and Concessive . .290 LXV Reported Speeches in ør§ti« Obl¿qua (Indirect Discourse) . .293 LXVI Numerals . .299 LXVII The Roman Calendar . .305 APPENDIX: CONTINUOUS PROSE COMPOSITION Preliminary Hints . .309 Passages for Translation . .320 GENERAL VOCABULARY . .375 INDEX OF SUBJECTS . .433 LATIN INDEX . .439 Introduction WHAT, it may be asked, is the object of studying Latin Prose Composition? Until comparatively recent times Latin was an important means of com- munication between men of different nationalities. During the Middle Ages it was extensively used as the international language of Europe, both for speaking and writing; and within more modern times, until the end of the eighteenth century, theologians, philosophers, and men of science com- posed their chief works in Latin. Although Latin is not now used so widely for such practical purposes, Prose Composition is still studied because it is an invaluable means of acquiring a real mastery of the language. Sound progress is not achieved in any language until some successful effort is made to use the language as a medium of expression. Latin Prose Composition helps, firstly, to fix in the memory the various inflections of nouns and verbs and the rules of Latin syntax; it gives us a closer insight into the workings of the Roman mind; like composition in any foreign language, it trains the student to penetrate beneath the superficial appearances of words to the meanings they are intended to convey; and, finally, when a student has himself employed the language as a tool, he is better able to appreciate the achievements of the great Roman writers. In this Introduction will be found information about some grammatical terms and ideas of fundamental importance, about types of sentences, and about the order of words and clauses in Latin. To these sections the student should frequently refer. THE PARTS OF SPEECH 1. By Parts of Speech we mean the various classes, or headings, under which all words used in speaking or writing may be arranged. 1 2ÐÐIntroduction PARTS OF SPEECH 2. In Latin, as in English, the Parts of Speech are eight in number: (i) Noun (or Substantive) (v) Adverb (ii) Adjective (vi) Preposition (iii) Pronoun (vii) Conjunction (iv) Verb (viii) Interjection 3. English has a Definite Article, the, and an Indefinite Article, a, an; both of them are classed as Adjectives. Latin has no Article; thus l»x may mean either the light, a light, or.