The Classical Review http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR Additional services for The Classical Review: Email alerts: Click here Subscriptions: Click here Commercial reprints: Click here Terms of use : Click here Latin Syntax 1 Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache. R. Von Kühner. Second edition. Vol. II.: Satzlehre, Part ii., neubearbeitet von C. Stegmann. Pp. viii + 738. 9¼″ × 6¼″. Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1914. M. 16.50; bound, M. 18.50. 2 Syntax of Early Latin. By C. E. Bennett. Vol.1.:The Verb. Pp.xx + 506 (1910). Vol. II.: The Cases. Pp.x + 409. 8¼″× 6″ (1914). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. \ $4 each volume. W. E. P. Pantin The Classical Review / Volume 29 / Issue 04 / June 1915, pp 119 - 121 DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X00048423, Published online: 27 October 2009 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0009840X00048423 How to cite this article: W. E. P. Pantin (1915). The Classical Review, 29, pp 119-121 doi:10.1017/ S0009840X00048423 Request Permissions : Click here Downloaded from http://journals.cambridge.org/CAR, IP address: 128.122.253.212 on 12 Apr 2015 THE CLASSICAL REVIEW 119 of Christiania in the Zeitschrift fur with the biirgerlich type of Essenes— die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1913, those, that is, who lived in the towns p. 145 ff., in which the author con- as a sort of Third Order as opposed to cludes that in early days the Chris- the desert-dwellers or Essenes proper. tians were identified with the Nazo- W. K. LOWTHER CLARKE. raeans, who in their turn were identical Cavendish, Suffolk. LATIN SYNTAX. 1. Ausfuhrliche Grammatik der latein- Plasberg's edition, his speeches from ischen Sprache. Von R. KUHNER. the Oxford text. Above all, the in- Second edition. Vol. II.: Satzlehre, formation is fuller; so much so that Part ii., neubearbeitet von C. STEG- the Syntax ' volume,' if we reckon its MANN. Pp. viii + 738. gi* x 6\". two parts together, has 400 pages more Hannover: Hahnsche Buchhandlung, than in the old edition. The quotations 1914. M. 16.50; bound, M. 18.50. and references are more numerous and more carefully selected. The passages 2. Syntax of Early Latin. By C. E. quoted are generally sufficient if one BENNETT. Vol.1.: The Verb. Pp.xx wants to find quickly a good set of + 506 (1910). Vol. II.: The Cases. typical instances; if one wishes to go Pp.x + 409. 8J"x6" (1914). Boston: more fully into any subject the refer- Allyn and Bacon. $4 each volume. ences are helpful; they often include OF the new edition of Kuhner it is not a good hint such as cp. Madvig, de necessary to speak at length, because Fin., or Lebreton's book on Cicero, the work has already been described in which means that further evidence is this Review. The first volume (price collected in the place referred to. I 24s.), dealing with Formenlehre, etc., have noted few misprints. On p. 406 has not been well revised for the new the reference to Terrell's article (on edition, and cannot be recommended scripturum fuisse as the regular oblique <see C.R. XXVI., 1912, pp. 200 ff.). form of scriberem) should read A merican The second volume, which treats of the Journal of Philology, 1904, not 1894. Syntax, consists of two parts, of which In a book of this size the Index is all- the first (price 18s., 828 pp.) was noticed important. I have tested it from time in C.R. XXVII., 1913, pp. 104 f., and the to time for some months, and have second is now before us. The reviser, almost always found what I was in C. Stegmann, has an intimate know- search of within a few minutes. As, ledge of Latin syntax (especially the besides the Index of Subjects, there is syntax of Cicero and Caesar) and an a very full Index of Latin words, the extensive acquaintance with the recent book will be useful to many who do literature of the subject. He has done not know German well. As a general his work well. I have compared the reference book for Latin syntax from new edition with the old in a large Plautus to Tacitus, and especially for number of sections, and have found the language of the time of Cicero and again and again evidence of careful Augustus, it is and long will be the best revision. Incorrect statements have of its kind. been put right: e.g. Kuhner says there For a fuller study of Early Latin the js a Passive Future Subjunctive, non student will turn to Professor Bennett's dubito quin futurum sit ut laudere ; Steg- handsome volumes. mann rightly says that this is not Professor Bennett takes 100 B.C. as Latin, and shows (p. 181) how the his later limit, and has ' endeavoured Romans expressed their meaning with- to consider all the remains of any syn- out such a periphrasis. The most tactical significance from the earliest recent texts have been used for the period down to this time.' ' Had I examples; in this second part Cicero's extended the scope of my work,' he philosophical writings are cited from continues, ' for another quarter of a I2O THE CLASSICAL REVIEW century, the additions would have been was in search of at the end of the sec- insignificant—merely a few citations tion, printed without a heading, so that from the Sullan annalists and con- it seems to belong to * Names of Rivera temporary inscriptions.' As a matter and Nations.' In some places where of fact, he would have included some the evidence is apparently intended to of Cicero's early work, a very interest- be complete I have noted omissions r ing addition, differing in kind from any for instance, in I. 426, ' Present In- of the literature here studied. finitive with future force,' add A sin. In the Preface to Vol. I. it is stated 699, and, a very good example, Most. that the ' concluding portion of the 633, die te daturum, ut abeat. Th. egon work' will treat the Cases, the Ad- dicam dare ? II. 384,' Ablative of Time jectives, the Pronouns, and the Par- within Which,' add Bacch. 422, nego tibi ticles. In the Preface to Vol. II., which hoc annis viginti fuisse primis copiae . treats the Cases, nothing is said of any pedem ut ecferres aedibus. further instalment. But the book is not merely a reper- The most notable point about Pro- torium in which one can find, and fessor Bennett's work is that he has generally find easily, abundant examples aimed at making his record of examples of any usage. The exposition is valu- a very full one. Unless he tells us to able and interesting. The author writes the contrary, either by putting ' e.g.' or clearly and vigorously; he has read ' frequent' before his examples, or by widely in grammatical literature and giving in parenthesis the number of formed very definite opinions on the occurrences, his quotations and refer- various questions involved; when there ences ' are intended to represent the is any need he sets out fully and some- complete material belonging under the times at considerable length the reasons given topic' This completeness seems in favour of the principle of classifica- to me a great advantage, though there tion which he adopts. A quotation may are a few places (for instance, II. $j- give some idea of the quality of his 50, the ' Possessive Genitive' strictly work: so-called) where it has seemed doubtful ' We cannot bear too closely in mind whether a selection would not have that, while the great mass of all syn- been equally useful. But, as he says, tactical constructions falls naturally ' it is impossible to foresee what par- into large groups of closely related uses, ticular information the student may yet this condition was not original. At seek in a syntactical manual.' The the outset there was greater variety and book will no doubt be used mainly for flexibility than later. With time the reference. In so using it one must be crystallisation into related groups of careful not to suppose that a set of uses advanced further and further. Yet examples is intended to be complete there always remained traces of the unless one has read the whole section earlier freedom, many uses lying quite in which they occur. It may happen outside the clearly marked formal that a statement to the effect that only categories, others hovering between a selection is given has been made some two related groups. This principle pages back. The writer thinks of his applies not only to the Genitive and readers as going through the pages other cases, but to the moods and continuously: e.g. anyone in search of tenses as well. To ignore it is to re- expressions like Rhodo mercator might verse the order of syntactical develop- be puzzled by the classification of the ment, and to represent as primitive Ablative of Separation (II. 280). He what was a matter of growth' (II. 11 f.). would note, 'A. Uses with Verbs. That is well put. I hope I may not B. With Adjectives and Adverbs,' and seem hypercritical if I raise objection would be surprised not to find ' With to the author's occasional use, when Nouns.' Perhaps he would turn to there is no need of them, of German ' D. Proper names designating place,' technical words in the midst of an but he would not find his example here English sentence: e.g. ' There was under ' Names of Islands.' If he per- no " einheitlicher" Genitive in the sisted he would find the paragraph he Ursprache' (II.