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CORNELL UNIVERSITY ... LIBRARY STEPHEN E. WHICHER MEMORIAL BOOK COLLECTION UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY DATE DUE —BBS-Jpi^lll wrrrm ^tin999- M- ^ Cornell University Mi kj Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924014233864 : NEW LATIN GRAMMAR BY CHARLES E. BENNETT Late Goldwin Smith Professor of Latin in Cornell University Quicquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta * Percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles Omne supemacuum plena de pectore manat. — Horace, Ars Poetica. ALLYN AND BACON BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAG6 ATLANTA SAN FRANCISCO First edition printed February, 1895. Reprinted April and September, 1895 > April, 1896; Jnly, 1897; April, 1898; May and September, 1899; April and November, 1900; October, 1901; March, 1902; April and November, 1903; July, 1904; April, 1905; April and November, 1906. Revised edition printed March, 1908. Reprinted April and October, igog; May, 19 Oj March, 191 1 ; March, 1912; March, 1913; April, 1914; March, 1915; March, 1916; March, 1917. Third edition printed June, 1918. Reprinted March and December, 1919; September, 1920; June, 1921; June, 1922; March and July, 1923; October, 1923; January and July, 1924; April, August and October, 1925; October, 1926; March, 1927. ::OPYRIGHT, 1895; 1908; 1918. *BY CHARLKS E. BENNETT. PREFACE. The present work is a revision of that published in 1908. No radical alterations have been introduced, although a number of minor changes will be noted. I have added an Introduction on the origin and development of the Latin language, which it is hoped will prove interesting and in- structive to the more ambitious pupil. At the end of the book will be found an Index to the Sources of the Illustra- tive Examples cited in the Syntax. C. E. B. Ithaca, New York, May 4, 1918. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The present book is a revision of my Latin Grammar originally published in 1895. Wherever greater accuracy or precision of statement seemed possible, I have endeavored to secure this. The rules for syllable division have been changed and made to conform to the prevaiUng practice of the Romans themselves. In the Perfect Subjunctive Active, the endings -is, -Imus, -itis are now marked long. The theory of vowel length before the suffixes -gnus, -gna, -gnum, and also before j, has been discarded. In the Syntax I have recognized a special category of Ablative of Association, and have abandoned the original doctrine as to the force of tenses in the Prohibitive. Apart from the foregoing, only minor and unessential modifications have been introduced. In its main lines the work remains unchanged. Ithaca, Nkw York, October i6, 1907. FROM THE PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. The object of this book is to present the essentialfacts of Latin grammar in a direct and simple manner, and within the smallest compass consistent with scholarly standards. While intended primarily for the secondary school, it has not neglected the needs of the college stu- dent, and aims to furnish such grammatical information as is ordinarily required in undergraduate courses. The experience of foreign educators in recent years has tended to restrict the size of school-grammars of Latin, and has demanded an incorporation of the main principles of the language in compact manuals of 250 pages. Within the past decade, several grammars of this scope have ap- peared abroad which have amply met the most exacting demands. The publication in this country of a grammar of similar plan and scope seems fully justified at the present time, as all recent editions of classic texts summarize in introduc- tions the special idioms of grammar and style peculiar to individual authors. This makes it feasible to dispense with the enumeration of many minutiae of usage which would otherwise demand consideration in a student's grammar. In the chapter on Prosody, I have designedly omitted all special treatment of the lyric metres of Horace and Catullus, as well as of the measures of the comic poets. Our standard editions of these authors all give such thor- ough consideration to versification that repetition in a separate place seems superfluous. Ithaca, New York, December 15, 1894. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introduction — The Latin Language ix Part L sounds, accent, quantity, etc. The Alphabet i Accent 5 Oassification of Sounds ... i Vowel Changes 6 Sounds of the Letters .... 3 Consonant Changes 7 Syllables 4 Peculiarities of Orthography . 7 Quantity 4 Part II. INFLECTIONS CHAPTER \.— Declension. C. Pronouns. A. Nouns. Personal Pronouns . 48 Reflexive Pronouns . Gender of Nouns 10 49 Number n Possessive Pronouns 49 Demonstrative Pronouns 5° Cases II The Intensive Pronoun 51 The Five Declensions .... 12 The Relative Pronoun 51 First Declension 13 Interrogative Pronouns 52 Second Declension 14 Indefinite Pronouns . 52 Third Declension 18 Pronominal Adjectives Fourth Declension 28 S3 Fifth Declension 29 Defective Nouns 30 CHAPTER II. Conjugation. Verb Stems . 54 B. Adjectives. The Four Conjugations 55 Adjectives of the First and Second Conjugation of Sum 56 Declensions 34 First Conjugation . 58 Adjectives of the Third Declen- Second Conjugation . 62 sion . 36 Third Conjugation . 66 Comparison of Adjectives ... 40 Fourth Conjugation . 70 Formation and Comparison of Verbs in -id of the Third Conju Adverbs 43 gation 74 Numerals 45 Deponent Verbs . 76 VI TABLE OF CONTENTS,. PAGB Verbs Semi-Deponents 78 List of the Most Important Periphrastic Conjugation ... 78 with Principal Parts ... 83 Irregular Verbs 9S Peculiarities of Conjugation . 79 '02 Formation of the Verb Stems . 80 Defective Verbs Impersonal Verbs '04 Part III. PARTICLES. Adverbs '°6 Prepositions °7 Interjections 108 Part IV. WORD FORMATION. I. Derivatives. Adverbs IF4 Nouns ... .... 109 II. Compounds. Adjectives iii Verbs 113 Examples of Compounds . Part V. SYNTAX. CHAPTER I. — Sentences. CHAPTER III. — Syntax of Adjectives. Classification of Sentences . .117 Form of Interrogative Sentences 117 Agreement of Adjectives . 153 Adjectives used Substantively . 154 Subject and Predicate . .119 Simple and Compound Sentences 119 Adjectives with the Force of Ad- verbs 156 II. Syntax A^ouns. CHAPTER — of Comparatives and Superlatives . 156 Subject 120 Other Peculiarities 156 Predicate Nouns 120 Appositives 121 CHAPTER IV. — Syntax of The Nominative 122 Pronouns. The Accusative 122 Personal Pronouns . «S7 The Dative 129 Possessive Pronouns "57 The Genitive 134 Reflexive Pronouns . 158 The Ablative 14:2 Reciprocal Pronouns 159 The Locative 152 Demonstrative Pronouns TABLE OF CONTENTS. vu FACE Relative Pronouns i6i Conditional Clauses of Com- Indefinite Pronouns 163 parison 203 Pronominal Adjectives .... 164 Concessive Clauses . 203 Adversative Clauses vfith Quapivls, Quamquam, CHAPTER N.— Syntax of Verbs. etc. 203 Agreement of Verbs 165 Clauses of Wish and Proviso 205 Voices 167 Relative Clauses .... 205 Tenses 167 Indirect Discourse .... 206 Of the Indicative 167 Moods in Indirect Dis- Of tlie Subjunctive . .171 course 206 Of the Infinitive 174 Tenses in Indirect Dis- Moods 176 course 208 In Independent Sentences . .176 Conditional Sentences in Volitive Subjunctive . .176 Indirect Discourse . 209 Optative Subjunctive . .178 Implied Indirect Discourse . 211 Potential Subjunctive . .179 Subjunctive by Attraction . 212 Imperative 180 Noun and Adjective Forms of the In Dependent Qauses . 181 Verb 212 Clauses of Purpose . .181 Infinitive 213 Qauses of Characteristic . 1 82 Participles 217 Clauses of Result . .184 Gerund 220 Causal Clauses 185 Supine 223 Temporal Clauses .... 187 Introduced by Posiquam, CHAPTER \l.— Particles. Ut, Ubi,etc. .... 187 Coordinate Conjunctions . 223 C«OT-Clauses 188 Adverbs 227 Introduced by Anteqtiam and Priusq-uam . .190 Introduced by Dum, Do- CHAPTER Vn.— Word- Order and Sentence- Structure. nee, Quoad .... 191 Substantive Clauses . 192 Word-Order 227 Developed from the Voli- Sentence-Structure 232 tive 192 Developed from the Opta- CHAPTER Vlll.— Hints on tive ....... 194 Latin Style. 01 Result 19s After non dubito, etc. 195 Nouns 233 Introduced by Quod . .196 Adjectives 235 Indirect Questions . 197 Pronouns 236 Conditional Sentences . .198 Verbs 236 Use ot St., Nisi^ Sin • . 202 The Cases 238 via TABLE OF CONTENTS. Part VI. PROSODY. PAGE rAGB Quantity of Vowels and Sylla- The Dactylic Hexameter . .245 bles 240 The Dactylic Pentameter . .246 Verse-Structure 243 Iambic Measures 246 SUPPLEMENTS TO THE GRAMMAR. I. Roman Calendar .... 247 I III. Figures of Syntax and Rhet- II. Roman Names 249 oric { 249 Index to the Illustrative Examples Cited in the Syntax 251 Index to the Principal Parts of Latin Verbs 259 General Index ,,.... 263 INTRODUCTION. THE LATIN LANGUAGE. I. The Indo-European Family of Languages. — Latin belongs to one group of a large family of languages, known as Indo- European}- This Indo-European family of languages embraces the following groups : &SIATIC MEMBERS OF THE INDO-EUROPEAN FAMHiT. a. The Sanskrit, spoken in ancient India. Of this there were several stages, the oldest of which is the Vedic, or language of the Vedic Hymns. These Hymns are the oldest literary produc- tions known to us among all the branches of the Indo-European family. A conservative estimate places them as far back as 1500 B.C. Some scholars have even set them more than a thou- sand years earlier than this, i.e. anterior to 2500 B.C. The Sanskrit, in modified form, has always continued to be spoken in India, and is represented to-day by a large number of dialects descended from the ancient Sanskrit, and spoken by millions of people. b. The Iranian, spoken in ancient Persia, and closely related to the Sanskrit. There were two main branches of the Iranian group, viz. the Old Persian and the Avestan. The Old Persian was the official language of the court, and appears in a number of so-called cuneiform ^ inscriptions, the earliest of which date from the time of Darius I (sixth century B.C.). The other branch of the Iranian, the Avestan,^ is the language of the Avesta or sacred books of the Parsees, the followers of Zoro- 1 Sometimes also called Aryan or Indo- Germanic.