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CHARLES
TILT,
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COE, PRINTER, 27, OLD CHANGE, ST. PAUL'S.
ADVERTISEMENT
TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The Author
edition of
it
of this
little
to
go forth
to the world,
by a few words
example of
distin-
guished writers.
He
ally
being answerable
prompts a man
to say, in the
criticism,
may
be considered
particularly
to
already.
But he
requests that
want
of additions to his
book
may be
excused
and
ADVERTISEMENT.
pleads, in arrest of judgment, his
numerous and
absorbing avocations.
Wishing
deficiency,
to atone as
much
by
he
to
whom
indebted
for
the embellishments,
and very
probably
be presented,
influenced
by the wish
comply
On
the
admirable sketch
itself,
bare justice
in detail.
somewhat
The
likeness he
is
told,
admirers,
is excellent.
The
which
it
plainly,
from what
we
superhuman
ADVERTISEMENT.
and sublime.
Of the
compliment implied
it is
of
its
exquisite-
The
elevated
the picture,
and
is
as tiue to
nature as
it is
indicative of art.
The Author's
reasons
tailor,
why
his
name should
desires to
artist
express his
for the
the
The
management
of the surtout,
boots,
this
to
art,
though in
ADVERTISEMENT.
self
ol'
their originals
have been
greatly flattered.
there
ill
He
is
also perfectly
aware
that
is
In conclusion, he
is
much
gratified
by the
taste
walking stick
and he assures
all
whom
it
may
upon him
for
he intends immediately
to relinquish
accustomed
to
carry,
and
to
appear,
in
every
such as he will
descend
to posterity.
PREFACE.
GREAT
is
a great evil;
is
new
one,
a great
especially
since a
is like
We
Memo-
of
Buckingham Palace.
show some kind
Indeed, were
of respect to
not necessary to
fashion,
things,
we
We
fare.
Mayor's
by a long
Our
preface,
;
however, shall
is shall
least
have
be candid.
made
to sell.
This
last
word has a
rather equi-
vocal meaning
but
we
we
An
sale
and it is may, nevertheless, be worth buying the resemblance between the aforesaid hoped that
A 2
4
razors,
PREFACE.
and
this our production, does not
extend
to
commodities.
to
The
the
scarcely
worth a farthing
for
eighteen-pence, and
were
fit
to
We
least,
will
be found
now and
;
at
and
will
reward
the purchaser,
for
any
its
rate,
his penny,
by
genuine bona
contents.
sometimes
in
:
the
we
unnecessary.
the
title
of
made
learning in earnest"
which
bear
the
;
The
doctrine,
it
is
true,
may
same
matter, that
bread
in Falstaff's private
if
though
Ave
we have given our reader " a deal of sack," wish it may not be altogether "intolerable.''
is
Latin, however,
it is
physic
especially anti-
medicines.
It
PREFACE.
and capable of causing
it
O
by
the
to be retained
call to
mind
This
in
what physicians
a pleasant vehicle.
invent
we have endeavoured
and
if
we
we
shall
have entirely
parti-
nasty
pills,
draughts, and
which
we
could find no
meddle.
For these
some
little
indulgence.
is
con-
remembered, that
weapons
use,
Men
Than
can,
certainly,
an
Grammar
frequently
it to
We
remember having
the
no
matter
what
pinning a cracker
hint
is
to
master's coat-tail.
attention of boys
;
The above
worthy the
"
Laugh
(like
and grow
Now,
young
K 3
6
gentlemen entrusted
say
PREFACE.
to
their
care
We
dare not
much
hold
of
its
we
to
all
utmost
reverence and
deprive any
We
now some-
now and
One word
is
in conclusion.
The march
;
of intellect
now augmenting by
their
numbers,
literary train.
But
for
path of learning
feet.
;
is
their tender
We
are
strew
it
for
we
nay,
;
we
but
we
their
pleasantly they
may make
INTRODUCTION.
Very
little
on terms of
Grammar."
a
To
terous
if
author
little
short of
in point
commensurate,
the
of moral
delinquency,
the
with
same crime
It is
as
defined
of
by
common law
for
of England.
out
consideration
the
praiseworthy,
though
such respectable
the following
we proceed
to
make
it
by demonstrating
ourselves from
duction.
all
such a publication as
pro-
When we
consider
and refinement, we
have
in turn
INTRODUCTION.
or
other.
To say nothing
of the
Golden
forth,
with
can
be said
;
to
be
argument
it is
Augustan Age,
Age, and the
the Elizabethan
all
Age
of
of
them very
dif-
ferent,
to the peculiar
mind
each of them.
In
like
manner, the
present
Age)
is
very unlike
be
all
that
have preceded
of Comicality.
It
may
that
termed the
Age
Not but
as
it
feeling, inherent
is in
but
it
is
only
now pervades
all
the entire
mechanism of
life.
society,
and illuminates
the transactions of
there
Thus
in the
Golden Age,
we may
comicality
trust
some of
Much
was displayed
:;
INTRODUCTION.
in
the
Middle Ages,
the
in
the
proceedings of the
Palestine,
knights errant,
doings in
and the
mode adopted by
on the
Age
several
particularly
when any
to
see Shakspere
or
performing the
of
of the dress
first
Ghost, in his
in
own play
Hamlet.
The
the
Queen Anne's time, and that of Georges, was very comical indeed but
worn
enough of
time
this.
Our concern
is
comparison, in
Some few
years back,
political revolutions
be gratified by whim-
and merriment.
in comforniity
with the
which
all
to
change a vulgar
for
common
10
convert
it
it
INTRODUCTION.
into a
It
mere
is
fluid,
and almost
to solidify
altogether.
now
amount
of expansive force,
it
circumstances
is
capable of
Many
Amongst
the
first
these, the
rank
of
whom the
commendation.
to
And more
epecially
is
praise due
Pickwick Papers,
no doubt, a great
as
it
many
mirror,
were,
which
will
reflect
to all
But
it
is
not (as
we have
recent
before remarked) in
the ludicrous
literature alone,
is
it
shewn.
is
In
many
scientific speculations
strikingly
some
of
those on geology
may be
quoted as examples.
The
come
those pledges of
almost
all
aff'ection
to art,
of them,
their faces.
say the
least,
very curious.
The learned
INTRODUCTION.
professions are
is
all
11
The law
what
to
very strange,
it
is
make
otherwise.
Medicine
is
comical
rather tragi-comical
its
or
and
among
the conduct of
students being
considered.
No
the
somewhat odd,
at
least of those
or
can
assert
that
who
now and
reflect
character.
things,
tions
Political
when we
the
of patriotism there
wisdom of
legislature
reforms
as
bread.
The
the
debates in a certain
House must be
if
of a very
humourous character,
proceedings there
lectures of all
kinds
and indeed, no
be,
lecturer,
has
much chance
also
amuse
Nor can
the
various
public and
up around
us, like so
many mushrooms,
be contem-
12
INTRODUCTION'.
new
the Cockney-Gothic,
this
good illustration of
remark
but the
would have
correctness.
The occurrences
lately passed on
;
of the
day bear
all
of them
the
stamp of facetiousness.
The
vote of
approbation,
policy,
is
a certain course of
a capital joke
French,
Yankees, and
to
though somewhat
impertinent
seem very
The
state in
;
of the
Drama
of our
may
also
be brought forward
proof
position.
farces are at a
premium
into
lions,
the service of
Momus.
Even
the
various
To
In
it
mention that respectable body of men, the Teetotallers, is sufficient of itself to excite
a smile.
find
short,
look
wherever you
will,
you
will
The
find
is
it
truth
is,
and
The sublime
out of fashion
the
ridiculous is in vogue.
INTRODUCTION.
turn-up nose
is
13
now a more
;
a turn-down collar
and
if it
by
their length,
be remem-
by a corresponding quality of
said that the schoolmaster
is
is
face.
:
It
has been
;
abroad
true
but he
;
and associations
in
for
the
his
train.
not palatable,
is
and
now
funny.
That
persons
this
that they
can be
expected
to all
to learn
on perusing the
in
:
foregoing
considerations,
appear
the
highest
degree unreasonable.
as are
To conclude
let all
such
disposed
to stare
ponder attentively on what we have said above let them, in the language of the farce, " put this
and
that together,"
and they
the beneficial
effect,
Grammar
to ridicule is
produce in the
satisfaction
minds of youth.
our senior readers.
So much
of
And
now,
no longer to detain
14
INTRODUCTION.
let
us proceed to business,
will
or
both
we
mony with
respect to terms.
THE
Of
Latin Proper, or
Thieves'
Latin.
good Latin
Dog
Latin
and
is
was spoken by the ancient Romans. Dog Latin is the Latin in which boys compose their first verses and themes, and which is occasionally
employed
at
the
Universities
of
Oxford
and
frequently at EdinIt
Aberdeen,
and
Glasgow.
Latin
;
includes
to
Law
though these,
generally
;
appear Greek.
Illic
Mens
oculo
tuus ego
tuo
vadis
cum
;
Quo-
modo
to
mater tua?
Bona
et catalla
are examples.
b2
16
name
class
of slang, of
is
conveyancers,
of
tinctions
meum
in
Furthermore,
bears a
very close
indeed,
to prig
it is
affinity
to
Law
Latin,
with which,
sometimes confounded.
Examples
a wipe
start
tion.
to
steal a handkerchief.
rum
curious occurrence.
plant
Flummoxed
heavy swell
undone.
an imposiA
tin,
Sold
deceived.
great dandy.
Quibus,
dibs.
A HEAVY SWELL.
mopuses,
victuals.
stumpy
money.
stiff-'un a dead
body properly,
subject.
To be scraggedto
17
If
to
it
W from
is
what he
letters,
done.
The Latin
therefore,
remind us of
the greatest age that a fashionable lady ever confesses she has attained to,
and
thirty.
Six of these
speaking English,
a,
e,
1,
fowls
vowels;
o,
u, y.
B 3
18
A
full
vowel
is
like
an .^Eolian harp
itself.
it
makes a
consonant can-
double
Consonants are divided into mutes, liquids and although they have nothing in letters;
the
r;
General post
the
office.
The
x,
liquids are,
z
;
1,
m,
n,
double
letters, j,
mutes.
"
dutn, fiddle
dumb
c."
Stekne.
A
A
more
in the
letters
pronounced
in a breath, or, as
we say
classics, in a jiffey.
diphthong
is
syllable.
Taken
they
resemble
closed
fist
i.
e.
a bunch oi Jives.
The diphthongs
first
ei, se,
and
oe.
Of the two
is
of these,
is
which each
This
may
a familiar beverage,
known by
ei,
half-and-half.
rally
In like manner,
i,
genee.
pronounced
and
se
and
ce,
sounded like
19
may
to
be said
to exhibit
a married couple.
female
+ Brown
male,
HUMAN DIPHTHONG.
The
reason
reason
the
is
a pretty
is
eight.
This
a fool's
but
we
(like
nine.
They
1.
declined.
like to
2.
tion
undeclined.
them
decline
altogether.
20
OF A NOUN,
a name,
it
the
prince,
is
pig,
or
post.
is
Nouns
tives.
are divided
into substantives
and adjecand
A
word
noun substantive
for itself
is its
own
trumpeter,
speaks
brassica,
a cabbage
;
sartor,
tailor
;
medi-
cus, a physician
vetula,
an old woman
venenuin,
posion
An adjective is
it
an
cannot go alone.
It
always requires
it
be joined
or
to a substantive,
of which
longa,
quality
as
lectio
a long lesson
magnus
;
boy
macer
MAIER IICR.
PINUHS PIER.
21
NUMBERS OP NOUNS.
Be
not alarmed,
boys, at the
it is
above heading.
true, that is to
or,
as
we say
sight" of nouns in the dictionary but we are not now going to enumerate, and make you learn them. The numbers of nouns here spoken of are two
only
the singular
and the
plural.
The
brick
;
singular
faba, a
as
(or
later,
bean
;
tuba, a
trump
trumpet)
;
flamma, a blaze
nix, a crow.
cor-
The
bricks
;
plural speaks of
fabae,
as
;
lateres,
beans
trumps
flammse,
cornices, crows.
Here
it
may
22
CASES OP NOUNS.
Nouns have
oal_y
is,
They
are
thus ticketed
nominative,
genitive,
dative,
accu-
sative, vocative,
and ablative.
before the verb, as
the
does before
the cart,
" lieutenant
of
and the
superintendant
It
before
the
or
inspector.
answers
1
to
the
question,
who
what
as,
Who jaws
the
magister
The
genitive case
to
is
known by
sign
of,
and
answers
the question,
?
whose, or whereof; as
Whose
breeches
Femoralia magistri
the breeches
or to or
for
is
known by
I
the question, to
whom,
what
as,
To whom do
hold out
I
hold out
my hands ? my hands to
In
this
it
place
we
whether
be more agreeable
means giving.
in
but
23
what
is
that
is,
if
not
more kicks, more boxes on the ear, more spats, more canings, birchings, and impositions, than halfpence.
The accusative
of applause a supernatural
squall
at
the Italian
Opera.
It
answers
to
the question
?
Whom
or
What ?
The
ing to
;
as.
Whom
do you laugh at
(behind his
known by
master
speak-
magister
an exclamation
which
out,
making
obstre-
The
tions,
ablative case
is
known by
certain preposi-
expressed
or
understood;
as
Deprensus
rostro
magistro
Coram
The
than,
the comparative
In angustia
native.
grin.
in a fix.
Cum
indigena
arbore
from
a tree.
rictu
with a by a
Ab
Adipe
lubricior
24
which are
three,
the
Latin by
articles.
We have
articles,
also,
in
English,
which
such as
in Latin, called
mas-
25
them are
We
initiate
will
now,
them
into a
of protesting
against
and short-sighted
at a
system
of
teaching
which prevailed
to
in the
monkish ages.
We propose
we
can
make
for
facts of the
immediate subject.
And
we
if
Masc.
hie.
Fern. haec.
singular
's
INTeut. hoc,
&c.
The nominative
hie, haec,
and hoc,
full
Which
The
to learn,
;
many
knock
genitive
's
makes
to
huic,
(A
fact
Smike);
great shakes
hac,
and hoc,
cock
is
a fowl
but a fowl
c
's
not a cock.
26
The nominative plural is hi, hae, and hsec, The Roman young ladies were dressed a laGrecque The
genitive case horum, harum, and horum,
;
The dative in all the three genders is his, At Actium his tip did Mark Antony miss The accusative 's hos, has, andhaec in all grammars, Herodotus told some American crammers The vocative here also caret 's no go, As Milo found rending an oak-tree, you know
:
And
is.
The Furies had most disagreeable faces. Nouns declined with two articles, are called common. This word common requires explanation it is not used in the same sense as that in which
we
say,
that
quackery
is
common
in
medicine,
lame ducks
at the
Stock
Exchange, Jews
foreigners
in
at the ditto,
and Royal
ditto,
and
Leicester Square!
is
No
common
;
noun
is
one that
word therefore
it is
uncoinmon.
may be
and
class;
soldier,
and
so is fur, will
a thief;
likewise
miles,
which
appear strange
to those of
our
readers,
who do
not call to
;
27
in
known
modern
Nor have we more than one authenticated of a female sailor, if we except the
in the
heroine
commemorated
somewhat apocryphal
with
narrative
Billy Taylor.
Nouns
the
whichever you
Duke
events
please, as
showman
said of the
of Wellington and
Napoleon
customer.
Bonaparte.
Anguis,
all
snake,
is
is
doubtful noun.
At
he
a doubtful
cock and
28
hen.
eagle,
After
all,
is
call
As
of
known by
case.
substantives distinguished
genitive
feelings
by the ending
of the
Our
fear
nf
quite so
We
therefore
Eton
to
recommending him
substantives,
by way
ae.
of an
manner
down.
Virga,
a rod.
Second,
Tergum, a back
curator,
i.
Puer, a boy.
Third,
is,
Stultus, a fool.
Vulpes, a fox.
Pro-
an attorney.
Cliens, a client.
Fourth,
us
ei.
Effigies,
an
effigy,
image, or Guy.
29
facies,
makes faces,
we
which
all
substantives
may
be declined in a mode
if
Exempli Gratia.
Musa
muS(,
musw.
beat this
?
Can ambrosia
as a pacha of three
c 3
would be,
if
30
he were
to
make
good
as bonus,
Sweet
epithets
how
forcibly they
leg of mutton.
Thou
little
lambkin dumb,
I sigh.
Have
pity on
my
woe,
art
mum.
O come
The butcher
ah
To put
Bonis
lots of
Tomata sauce
o'er
'em
Don't, miss,
art sweeter than thy
Thou
mamma,
And
fatter
Bonis,
What
31
solus,
alone
totus,
;
the
whole
none
uter,
whether of the
twomake
dative in
i.
RIDDLES.
Q. In what case will a grain of barley joined to
an adjective stand
for the
name
of an animal
uni-corn.
res.
2.
lib. ii.
nimirum
tibi recte
semper erunt
Hor. Sat.
106.
]
Q.
Why
is
all
nature
A. Because
an wm'-verse.
another,
is
The word
above-named
alius,
makes
aliud,
neuter singular.
The
London
N.B. Tu
pressed by "
es unus
ahus,
is
a phrase
Tu
quoque."
32
us of
as
It is
Amator, a sad
lover.
TRISTIS AMATOR.
Melior
affords no
is
Felix
room
a happy joke.
same
class,
If the
nominative endeth in
why,
sir.
The
sir
33
neuter
fourth,
and
fifth
case,
their
make
E; or
i,
mark my song.
:
While
The
or a
If than
is, er,
and
or, it
hath
many more
enders,
The nominative serves to express the three genders But the plural for ia hath icia and itia.
As
Felix, felicia
Dives,
divitia.
COMPARISONS OF ADJECTIVES.
Comparisons are odious
why
they are so disa-
This
is
greeable to learn.
The
first
degree of comparison
is
the positive,
Grammar
is lepidus,
funny.
The second
is
the comparative,
which increases
to the first
or lessensthe quality,
formed by adding or
i.
Thus
the Charter
House Grammar, is lepidor funnier, or more funny. The third is the superlative, which increases or
34
Thus the
Comic Latin
most funny.
Grammar
is
lipidissimus, funniest, or
is acutuS;,
Londoner
acutior,
sharp, or 'cute,
a Yorkshireman
more
or
'cute
sharper, or
more
sharp, 'cuter or
but a
with
Yankee
is
acutissimus
sharpest,
manner
most sharp,
'cutest or
most
Enumerate,
in
the
following,
to this rule,
mentioned
Eton Grammar.
Melior, better.
suet pudding.
Bonus, good,
Optimus,
best.
A plain pudding. A
Malus, bad.
A plum pudding.
flogging.
Pejor, worse.
Pessimus, worst.
caning.
spatting.
&c. &c.
Adjectives ending in
errimus.
of verjuice
er,
The
that
acrior,
more sour
the visage of
tee-totaller, acerrimus,
sourest, or
most sour.
change
is into llimus,
Madlle. Taglioni. Jim Crow. Agillimus, most nimble. Mr. Wieland. Learned more Ourang-outang.
Agilis, nimble.
Agilior,
more nimble.
Docilis, docile.
Pig.
Docilior,
docile.
Man
Friday.
35
A whipping
&c. &c.
post.
Gracilior,
more slender,
A fashionable A dustman's
in
waist.
leg.
If a
the nominative
is
made by
Dr. Cantvvell.
Magis
pius,
more
pious.
Maxime
pius,
most pious.
OP A PRONOUN.
A
for
pronoun
is
a substitute, or (as
we
once heard
a noun.
fifteen
There are
Pronouns.
ille,
Ego,
I,
tu,
thou,
and
Billy,
Got very
Iste, hie,
tipsy.
mens,
did not see us.
The governor
36
We knock'd
monger
for
down
a coster-
To
these
may
be added,
egomet,
myself
tute,
what country.
DECLENSION OP PRONOUNS.
Pronouns concern ourselves so much, that we
cannot altogether pass over them
or
;
though a hint
two
declension
We
the
mode of learning their we can here afford to give. are constrained now and then to leave out a good
Avith
regard
all
to the
is
that
manager
to
play of that
name
ance.
Tu,
In Chancery they
Ille,
ilia,
ye.
illud.
Cows chew
the cud.
37
Always do
as you're bid.
Or
decline
is,
ea, id.
We
heard
repeat
E o
a o
!
When
Eschew
chewing
it.
38
OF A VERB.
A
neck.
It
verb
is
the chief
word
let
in
every sentence, as
Ego
you
sum
thou art a
fool.
am a Non
wise man.
Tu
es stuhus,
Mr. Ferguson.
voices, like the gentleman
at the St.
who
was
James's
Theatre.
The
active ending in o
as amo,
I love. I
in or
is
as amor,
Amo
!
am
loved.
summum bonum
In
amor
How
being,
be able
to
say
so.
Except,
modern
political
economists of the
diffusion of learning,
are
violently
opposed
unlimited conjugations.
in o
Of verbs ending
transitive.
verb
is called
transitive
when
39
to the following
meum,
cutting,
cut
my
stick.
Numerous examples
which
of this
kind of
may
and modern.
Even Hector
of Troy.
The Persians
cut
at his
Pompey
Antony
stick
and so did
his
Actium.
stick at Waterloo.
verb
is
called
intransitive,
or
neuter,
when
run.
Pistol cucurrit,
But
to
eum
per,""
him through,
active,
and would
or
Dog- Latin;
cucurrit
Mens homo Gulielmus caput suum plenum sed contra te homo die
head
full
pax,
but against
the mantel-piece.
after Cicero.
is
Verbs
cut
transitive ending in o
or, as Secor, I
become passive by
Csesar
changing o into
am cut.
was
by
much worse,
40
indeed,
made
We
may
say, Crepo,
I
crack, but
we
am
cracked.
The
says, to
what Homer
have got
into a
way
of cracking
away most
Orestes
was
certainly cracked.
Some
fication
as Loquor,
speak.
41
1
Why
these
Of
boast.
neuters,
as Glorior,
came.
in general,
make
conquests so easily.
in or,
and supines
like
verbs active
Ego
irrideo,
I quiz.
Tu
thou quizzest.
is
verb impersonal
like a collection of
;
tomb-
it
persons, as taedat,
It irketh to learn
it
it
irketh, oportet,
behoveth.
Greek and
Latin, nevertheless
behoveth
to
do
so.
OF MOODS.
Moods
in verbs
are like
moods
in
man
they
Here,
42
Man
has
have but
five.
For instance,
many we
observe in
(or
men
bold,
may
from
;
both the
as
serious
and
drunken
in
mood
or
it
latter,
which case
may
drunk
bling
moodthe
mood
;
contented mood,
grum-
the sarcastic
mood, the
idle
tory or mentorial
to
mention.
flirting
We
the
mood,
magging
The moods of verbs are the following 1. The indicative mood, which either affirms a
:
fact
or asks a question, as tu
?
Ego amo,
do love.
Amas
43
two examples.
A LONG COlRTSMiP.
2.
or
entreateth.
as
thus,
!
Veni hue
Come
rative
hither
Parce mihi
is
Spare me
The impelet
mood
also
known by
the sign
as
in
the
well-known verse
"
in the song
Dulce
Domum
for the
Eja
nunc eamus."
"
Hurrah
vacation.
in the
44
slave
drivers,
superintendents,
ser-
and
especially,
on
all
occasions.
3.
The
signs
potential
mood
it
signifies
power
are,
or duty.
The
by which
is
known
may, can,
as,
Amem,
may
4.
love (when
(if I
have loved
Heave school). Amivissem,! should had not known better,) and the like.
differs
The subjunctive
in being
indefinite
to
some
in the
I
same sentence
as
Cochleare eram
cum amarem,
45
I
loved
Nescio
don't time.
know what
person
am
at this very
The propriety of
toric,
which perhaps
ma)""
appear hereafter.
5.
The
it
infinitive
mood
is like
because
has no number.
not
We have
ther to ness," which
cessful
exactly,
whemen-
compare
young
It
it
rivals.
may
or both, because
has no person.
it
;
Neither has
indeed, has
it
it
nor,
commonly known by
to.
As,
for
;
example
Nubere,
Amare,
to
to love
;
Desipere, to be a
fool
marry
Poenitere, to repent.
encourage the
expansion of
by
various faculties,
we beg
to
invite
Grammar,
46
^tV. Believe me
in di, do,
and dum,
;
But the supines of verbs are but two For instance, the active, which endeth in um,
And
the passive
which endeth
in u.
Amandi, of
beware
Amando,
in loving, be brief
to love, if
Amandum,
you
'r
all
Amatum, Amatu,
Should
it
to love
and be loved,
be your
May
removed
Which
OF TENSES.
In verbs there are five tenses, or times, express-
The
There
is
no time
expresses an action
Act.
I love, or I
now
taking place.
Examples
loving.
Amo,
am
loving.
Pass.
am am made
some-
drunk, or
2.
am
drunk.
Inebrior, I
am
drunk.
The
preterimperfect
tense
denotes
47
Examp.
I
did love or
I
bam,
ago.
3.
was
loving.
I
Inebriabar,
The
loved.
or
preterperfect tense
or
now ended. -Examp. I have loved, Amavi, I loved. I have been made
Inebriatus sum,
I
drunk,
The
Examp.
I
Amaveram,
been drunk.
5.
had loved.
Inebriatus eram,
had
The
hereafter, as,
Amabo,
get drunk
I shall or Avill
love
Inebri-
abor,
I shall
say to-morrow.
Singular, No.
In most matters
tion to
it is
number
it is
one.
ever,
The
very disagreeable.
in
each number.
Thus,
instance,
at a
dancing
academy
48
Sing.
dance,
dancest.
Thou
saltat,
He
Ye
danceth.
Plur.
Nos Vos
Illi
saltamus,
saltatis,
We dance,
dance,
saltant,
They dance.
princi-
ples
Ego Tu
lUe
rideo,
rides,
ridet,
laugh,
laughest,
Thou
He
Ye
laugheth.
laugh,
"We
laugh,
rident,
too,
is
They
very
laugh.
at other acade-
Laughter,
common
wrong
side of the
mouth.
The
to
may
be
is
presumed
What
Nosque rideamus."
" The year laughs, the meadows laugh, pose
supsee
we have a
laugh as well."
all
Note
That
and Vos.
Hence we
49
of donke} s
to
call
how absurdly
the picture "
the
upon us
We
may, perhaps,
tlie
make
a third person in
down an
ass"
Ego,
I,
in
common with
to
Note
also.
That
all
So
;
that if
or
we
should
asine,
thou donkey
asini,
ye
on
donkeys,
our side.
we
should have
grammar
at
least
Be
also.
it
your care
to
be.
is
It
necessary
before
to
to
be.
it is
And
necessary
we make
place
we have
to
any
in
them
he
is
very
much
mistaken.
no reason
why
E
50
same.
Were we
all to
follow the
to
examples of our
their
teachers,
instead of
attending
precepts,
this time ?
far
the
neighbouring planets,
left,
and
pell-mell, helteritself,
among
it
the
fixed
stars
" and
all
Avhich
so admirably described
by
the poet
Ovid
It
would indeed
But " revenons a nos moutons," that is, let us We recommend the most get back to our verbs.
attentive
forth in
and
them as
shall
set
of association
we
now
proceed
to
Sum,
that
is
or not
to
be
the question.
1.
Rule
To each person
of a verb,
singular and
faculty,
If yourself a senior
51
Indicative Mood.
Present Tense.
Sing.
Am,
a man, a a
fool,
Sum,
Es,
Est,
am,
art,
Vir,
Stultus,
Thou
He
Plu.
is,
Latro,
thief.
Sumus,
Estis,
We are,
Ye
are,
Patricii,
gentlemen.
snobs,
Plebeii,
Sunt,
They
are, Errones,
vagabonds.
but that
We would
we
proceed in this
Amo, Amas,
Amat,
I love,
Puellam, a
lass,
Thou
lovest,
Fartum,
a pudding,
pork.
He
Plu.
loveth,
Carnem porcinam,
Amamus,
Amatis,
We love,
Ye
love,
Doctrinam,
learning.
Leporem,
comicality,
poetry.
Amant,
They
love, Poesin,
the different
tenses
of
Eng-
e2
52
lish verse,
person
singular,
and another
In this
to
rhyme with
the
of
Example.
Second Conjugation.
Sing.
Moneo.
&
Co.'s
heavy wet.
Plu.
Third Conjugation.
Sing.
Rego.
Rego,
regis, regit,
for office unfit,
A statesman
Plu.
Regimus,
Is
regitis, reguni,
much
like a
bear in a punt.
to give the
Hule
lish
3.
Engfol-
you are
repeating,
in that
tled
"
have
toes,
to
Grand Opera," that of singing what you sar/. Hold up your head, turn out your
your voices, and begin.
clear
A-hem
iO
ROUGH THE
53
Audio.
Sing.
Audio,
the Tartar
drum
Chorus.
He He
hears
hears
the Tar
- tar
He
Plu.
h--e---a--rs
Audimus,
drum
Verbs Irregular
Are regular
bores.
are
equally
Defective Verbs
Concerning which
almost
fect,
all
it
may
more
or less imper-
perfect Tense.
Impersonal Verbs.
Such as
&c.,
delectat,
to
it
delighteth
decet,
it
becometh,
answer
it
Avord
before them.
When we
E 3
consider that
it is
54
a term of endearment used in speaking to babies, as " it's a pretty dear," we cannot help thinking
PRETTY DEAR.
to
however,
is not,
as far as
we know,
OP A PARTICIPLE.
A
is
a kind
It
of mongrel-cross,
wherefore
its
may
in
usually watered in
The
properties of
the
noun belonging
;
to
it,
are,
and declension
nification.
and
sig-
55
As
participles.
Air.
Bonnets of Blue.
There
's
and then,
;
There
Of the
and
again,
A
as
Participles are
adjective,
how can we ask our fair decline a-mans (amans) loving. readers to Now here we feel called upon to say
no
!
but
(blue)
few
words on the difference between a man's loving and a woman's loving. It has often been a question,
whether do
the matter
men
or
women
To us
doubt.
in
for
We
love
and
silly
enough)
We
was
and
cost
him
week
maid servant, and that without once being enabled to exchange a word with the object At last he began to think that of his affections.
in fees to the
so
so
up.
What
girl
and
laid out so
5Q
Women,
our
own
in
ribands, bracelets,
and the
to
And we
who
it
young lady
in these
less
hand
at
any thing
no, no.
To
love dearly
is
the
creation
But we are
The
or ens; as Flagellans,
in rus,
a likelihood,
design
about to whip
Lsesurus,
about to hurt.
That of the preterperfect tense has generally a passive signification, and ends in zts, as Flagella
-
tus,
whipped
Lsesus, hurt.
That
nification,
as Flagellandus, to be whipped
hse-
dendus, to be hurt.
Note
1.
adjective.
We
recommend
57
by-
whipping
top,
OF AN ADVERB.
Convex and concave
used
to increase or
Adverbs are
verbs.
joined
;
to
nouns adjective,
;
and
&c.
Bene, well
multum, much
male,
ill,
are adverbs.
Caesar
Ca?sar
58
OF A CONJUNCTION.
A
To
it
conjunction
;
is
together
things
;
wherefore
may gum
be hkened unto
many
for instance
glue, to paste, to
joins words
to
Roman
to
cially),
to
Ova
ei
lardum,
eggs
and bacon.
Dimidium
et
dimidium^we, half-and-half.
love and madness.
Amor
dementia,
IIAUFANU-HALF.
59
OF A PREPOSITION.
Preposition
is
eat
to eat
Ab,
Sometimes a preposition
joined in composition
OF AN INTERJECTION.
An
interjection is a
emotion
or
!
feeling,
as
!
Hei
Oh
dear
!
Heu
Lack-a-day
Hem
Bravo
find
!
Brute,
Titus.
Hollo
Brutus.
Euge
Tite,
We
we
here
de-
lightful subject
shall
make
we
are no fonder
we
to
the
Eton Grammar
in
the Concords,
we
be
should be obliged to
make
in the
Syntax.
just one or
two points
to
60
Rule.
Ask
no
questions."
Exception.
When
1
you want
to find the
to
find
where the
Who
or
what
or
nominative case
to
the verb.
Whom
tive after
what 1 with
it.
Who
Who
or
what what
for the
sub-
or
for the
antecedent
to the relative.
But remember,
who
is
and what
however
justifiable in
grammar,
for
What,
to say.
ill
Who
you
mannered.
We
as.
Has your
used only
and the
like,
by persons
who have
to
never asked
to
]
themselves
go
but of
said
all
unnecessary
great
demands whatever,
it
" Sir,"
the
Dr
tail
is
Why
long."
is
a dog's
short, or
why
is
a cow's
61
known by
the
name
of
As
the
"
As
in Prsesenti" is too
much
of a joke,
we
us in this respect,
is
into
manner
fifteen.''
"Here
's
to the
maiden of bashful
call,
Ut
And
Latin
me
sore,
Oh how
wish that
my
lesson
was
o'er.
lost are,
s
;
And Mensium
a bore, &c.
We
recommended,
perfectly original.
The genuine
62
As
writings of the most remote antiquity, consist of certain useful truths recorded in
It
harmonious numbers.
has
been
a question
among commentators,
origi-
Analogy (we
which
mean
Virgil)
would
the schools.
in the
We
;
shall
give
one
it
more specimen
above style
and we beg
may
wish
we have no
all
Eton Grammar
we
think
that he
little
more
it.
was about
Sec.
OF
"As
in Prcesenti.''''
As Oh
in Prsesenti
!
Preterperfect
is
avi.
send
me
Save
Ah
me
how sweet
and
Could
n't I lie
tipple,
more Gra?co
63
From neco, necui, and mico, word Which micui makes, Oh roast goose,
!
lovely bird
!
Delightful grub
And
rub
So domo,
make,
to the stake,
too.
And
I
sono, sonui.
mean
the hee^-siake
to
Which means
Then
Cubo,
to lie
veto, vetui
seedy
form
steti
has a predilection
Well
no objection.
SYNTAXIS.
or the Construction of
Grammar.
the
Q.
What
part of the
grammar resembles
?
A.
Sin-iSLX.
Where
there
is
much personality,
there
is
gene-
f2
64
However, a verb personal agrees with its nominative case in number and person, as Sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. The way to good manners
is
never too
late.
Mind
that, brother
Jonathan.
AMEBICAN GENTLEMEN.
Nofe
is
especially worthy of
;
the attention of neophytes in law and medicine the gods in the gallery, and of Members
of
oHhe House.
The nominative
as
case of pronouns
is
rarely expres-
are.
^1
(L-
E W
.;
';
L-
1'-
...
V M
II
C SSE
WIOLI.JTOS
Q5
viri.
The faithful study of the fistic art From mawkish softness guards a Briton's
heart.
to
Who
can doubt
it
But, besides,
In the
we have much
first
place,
it is
To say nothing
of the
Olympic and Isthmian Games, which are of themselves suflScient proof of the elegant and fanciful
tastes of the ancients;
fact, that the
we need
Then, of
its
What
to
good fellowship,
and conviviality than the frequent tapping of claret, attendant both on its study and practice ? Nor can
its
beneficial influence
on the
fine arts
be called in
is to
its
immediate object
teach
is
And
sex,
(which perhaps
all),
it is
particu-
who
besides their
well
known admiration
of bravery, are, to a
woman,
devotedly attached
to the ring.
F 3
66
We
a racy
observation.
mood
but
it
hold.
Re-
member
to the
an exception
and
this
Sjmtax.
We
used
wish
did not
so
beto
cause then
learn
we
much
to
resume however
infinitive
Verbs of the
fore
mood
or
often
have
set be-
being
left
out
Annam
They say
Queen Anne's
dead,
different
numbers,
it
is
stacks of hay,
makes choice
it,
as
est,
We
Perhaps
may be imagined
us.
that
we
think good
English beneath
67
A singular noun
to
of multitude
is
sometimes joined
a plural verb
as
And
so they
if
they saw
one in costume.
tem videre,
68
It
Jim Crow.
69
nice
man
for
a small tea-party.
TEA SPOON.
of this kind
between sub-
The
little
ties
of wedlock are
nothing to
there
is
it
for,
happy
state
it is ([uite
\\\
impossible that
man and
gender.
70
substantive
the
adjective
neuter gender, as
to see
and antecedent
hit it off
very
Avell
together
quiescit,
bonam
"
He who
Lives as he ought
and dies a
jolly fellow."
71
kind of thing.
Sometimes a sentence
cedent, as
is
Heliogabalus,
spiritu contento,
viginti
quatuor
Heliogabalus,
at
one breath,
swallowed two
HELIOGABALUS.
Many
relative placed
different genders
with the
latter, as
GramComic
Boys regard
Latin
that book
which
is
called the
Grammar.
72
which
is
They wondered
letter to the
at his
queen.
If a
relative
is
governed by
is
the verb,
whicfi
placed
ad Jovem
cujus
shirked,
be-
longed
In fact,
liyhining.
Prometheus
made
light
of Jupiter's
We
only
IT
'S
: :
73
Our next
subject
is
the
Which
or
is
paper
" constructiveness"
though
not unlike
the
construction oi puzzles.
When
two substantives of a
different
is
signifi-
sometimes changed
into a
Urbi pater
est,
urbique maritus.
city,
Gram. Eton.
whoever he
He
is
the city.
He
was.
fellow,
An
Paululum honestatis
sartori sufhcit
A very little honesty is enough for a tailor. A genitive case is sometimes placed alone
preceding
substantive
the
being
understood by the
figure ellipsis, as
74
Ubi ad magistri veneris, cave verbum de porco When you are come to the master's (house), not
a word about the pig.
The word
to signify
pig
is
is
used
of the
human
pearance, or feelings
of
little
things,
which
sometimes necessary
to
keep
secret.
pedagogue now
this, or
rather
little
the
way
in
which
it
got there,
is
one of the
pigs in question.
is
or the garden
another
so is insinuating
wax
we mean
sort of
pig
(or
rather a rat)
pies,
down town
is
always a
of dis-
in case
is
a pig,
it is
singular
Two
same thing
are
put in the
same
case, as
75
Calypso
By
the way,
have been
is
as
et
magni appetitus
A man
A
Paterfamilias.
father of a family.
man
of
many
woes.
The man
coachman.
is
a hackney
g2
76
to
necessarius, necessary, as
est
The King
a valet-dewho
roasts
a wit,
which signify
and the contrary
desire,
to
knowledge,
memory,
fear,
these, require a
genitive case, as
The nature
of old
women
is
fond of scandal.
to old
maids.
As
we
those
cannot
which
their propensity
to cutting
up renders them
peculiarly
since
it
adapted;
we mean Anatomy.
And
we
is
77
pursuit of
them
the
is
likely to be
Mens tempestatum
prsescia
A mind
A
used as a barometer
this purposd"
but
it
is
Immemor
The
that
sort of
Unmindful of a kindness.
kindness one
is least
likely to forget is
to
say he conferred
learning
upon
when he was
rod.
inculcating
by
means of the
ever, that he
how-
Imperitus rerum
i.
e.
Not 'up
to snuff.'
Much
that
it
was suggested by
not to
the
snuff, of clearing
head; but
say
absurd.
was
first
name of a cunning
time of the
rogue
who
;
flourished about
the
crusade
or
knowing, as Snoffe
and was
G 3
in
process of time
78
was
in
vogue
discovery of tobacco.
is
Probably
it
soundest
view
that
which connects
in
with
the proper
ancient
High-
Dutch
great.
is
for astuteness
was exceedingly
13.
Conf.
Hookey- Walk,
24. Cheek.
Hok. Pok.
Wonk-Fum.
Roscius timidus
Deorum
fuit
Tempus edax rerum Time is the consumer of all things. Hence Time is sometimes figured as an alderman. Nouns partitive, nouns of number, nouns comparative and superlative, and certain adjectives put
partitively,
require
a genitive
case,
from which
gender
as
:
Utrum horum mavis accipe Take which of those two things you had
between the dagger and the bowl of poison.
to to
rather.
be hanged on.
79
Orpheus
of fiddlers.
He is said to have charmed the hearts of broomstick^. Momus lepidissimus erat Deorum Momus was the funniest of the Gods.
:
Other deities
head.
may have made Jupiter shake his Momus used to make liim shake his sides.
te,
Sequimur
sancte deorum
We
rence
follow thee,
sacred deity.
He
is
the
only-
we
commonly made
to the
as,
:
Democritus
est
Democritus
the
first
amongst philosophers.
to
And why
it
He
was who
first
proved
to the
and comicality
the
are, in fact,
one science
and that
forget
We
whether
remark,
was he
or
is
Aristotle the
who made
the
that
man
only
laughing animal
80
Haud
ulli
Inferior to
in valour.
this,
had an eye
to
a hero,
in the verses of
"
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Pericles, Of Conon and Lysander, and Alcibiades
;
But of
all
there
's
none
for
to
compare,
With my
grenadier
An
to
it,
interrogative,
shall be of the
tense,
except
;
words of a
different construction
be made use of
as
Pomorum.
?
there no fulness
Of
fruit.
81
much
-J^Ulnilui.il.nirulHlST
any thing
is signified,
as
cocti
autem
in bello.
Raw
peace
;
Lobster's claws
are nasty
The Corporation
One
of the reasons
why
a soldier
is,
is
sometimes
is
marine animal.
Balsenffi persimile
Very
Qui
like a whale.
nunc
The
colour
now
contrary to
white.
82
Some
ends
;
black
to
gain their
and a
man who
will
do
this,
though he
may
not always be
Jucundus amicis
Pleasant
is
to his friends
comall
a fellow
soldier,
&c.
You must
you
con
if
Some
The
no doubt owing
to the
of
their
countrymen Franklin.
Q.
Was
the
lightning
down from
example
?
Communis, common
free,
alienus, strange
immunis,
Long
ears are
common
to asses.
83
Though musical
for
ears
are
not.
We
even doubt
^ray-ham.
Non
Except
tails
sunt
Tails are
to
also be added,
though these
Non
Not averse
a pot of beer.
;
Natus, born
commodus, convenient
;
incommo-
dus, inconvenient
utilis,
;
useful
fit,
inutilis, useless
vehemens, earnest
aptus,
Natus ad laqueum
Born
to
a halter.
84
exalted destiny,
why watermen
are such a
set of rogues
To prevent mistakes, it should be mentioned, that the watermen here meant are those who, by
their
own
to
being
taken passively,
ending
in
and
participles
made
;
adjectives
dus,
as
;
acting ?
O O
te luget
Olympus
the
Listen, to be venerated
by me
Olympic
bewails thee.
of quantity
is
case, as
A
sibus.
snake a hundred
feet long.
Arbor gumnifera,
alta mille et
quingentis pas-
85
An
tives
accusative case
is
sometimes put
after adjec-
dum, appears
Like
be understood, as
asello similis
:
Os humerosque
to a cod-fish as to his
Some men
their
to increase
natural resemblance as
gills.
much
as
possible,
by wearing
Amor
Love
very
full
is
gall.
of love
Honey, however,
is
First.
often
necessary
86
to
Ladys window.
it
This
is
communilove
is
cause
or
the
manner
of a thing, as
erat
we
do not mean
though
we
the brush
perhaps
Does
to
would be better
on account of
reader twig
to call thern
their partiality
?
the
If so,
it
is
unnecessary
its
it
may
proclaim
by no means
species.
Dignus, worthy
87
;
captus, disabled
;
contentus, content
ex;
banished
fretus, relying
upon
liber, free
fato
fate.
first to
Shocking
What an heroic young man he must have been. What a duck, too, the fair Hero must have thought
him as she watched him from her lonely tower,
nearing her every moment,
as he cleft with lusty
arm
the
foaming herring-pond.
We
mean
else
!
the
Hellespont
but
to
no matter.
What
a goose he
who
happened
know
How
If
Never mind.
Leander went
many a
better
man
same cause,
Conscientia
procuratoris
solidis
sex,
denariis
lawyer's conscience
is
to
be sold
for six
and
eightpence.
Some of
these,
Carmina digna
H 2
88
Whether
dess or not,
we
if
shall not
to
attempt to decide
all
they a
were addressed
being who,
one at
events
at least to
may,
in
We
sigh.
As
So
Trembles
to the tuneful
wave,
my
Till
Though
Joy
for
Envious
my doom
should be
ever disunited,
!
Think, ah
think, at times on
me
Where
Fond Loves
instil.
affection silent
to linger
roaming.
by the
rill
Hears
89
Bind
Fancy mocks
I
would lavish
is
a bee
glittering sadness
Torture gilds
my
Now
for
AN ALEDM AUTHOR.
It
to
sense verses,
so.
if this
for
doing
:
Prosody
nor
shall
we
we
get on
h3
::
90
they
may
require
be explained
by
the
word quam,
than,
an ablative
Achilles
Achilles
F'asi
men
to
outrun
the constable.
how much,
;
hoc,
by
this,
eo,
by
this,
with
the measure of
and natu, by
By
so
much
the ugliest,
by how must
the wisest
of philosophers.
It is all
;
very well
it
but
need
Quo
This
a curious fact in
considered
in
natural
history of
school-boys,
relation to roast
beef
Maximum
I
cetate
virum
in tota
Kentuckia contudi
whopped
the oldest
man
in all
Kentucky,
91
between
meum
sity of
becoming
quod.
Mei, of me,
of us, vestri,
tui,
of you,
tu,
primitives e^o,
signified, as
when a person
is
Languet desiderio
tui
He
You
The
have
something
if
Parsque
tui lateat
Eton Gram.
And
Or
a part of you
may
lie
!
shut up
in
my
body.
rather
may
it
so lie
How
forcibly a sucking
mind
Mens, mine,
own (Cockwhen
;
as
ille
Tempore quo
92
Him
Ven
't
his'n,
to pris'n.
he's cotch'd
'11
go
meus,
tuus,
siius,
and
cases,
ipsius,
of himself,
solius,
omnium, of
all,
plurium,
of more, paucorum, of
few, cujusque, of every one, and also the genitive cases of participles, which are referred to the primitive
word understood
drank six pots
as
:
to
my own
cheek.
to
We wonder that
say
so.
is,
to
93
He
spares his
own
errors.
se derideas, Jona-
you
one of these
hie,
iste,
and
ille
me
iste
him who
is
by you
us.
ille
him who
is
at a distance
from both of
In making
as pointers.
game
of the Syntax,
we
regard them
When
latter,
hie and
ille
the former, as
ille
mero
Tom
caroused
away
like swine,
Tom
wine.
The Construction
of Verbs.
am, forem,
;
might
am made,
nominor,
I
existo, I
I
am
verbs passive of
appellor, I
calling, as
am named,
am
called, dicor,
am
said, vocor, I
am
called,
nun-
94
cupor,
I
I
am
seen, habeor, I
thought, have
then), as
after
Adeps viridis est summum bonum Green fat is the chief good. Even among the ancients, turtles were the emblems
:
of love
which, next
first
to eating
object of
human
proves,
very
satisfactorily,
two things,
gastronomy and,
hat
is
called a
tile.
Likewise
all
95
Eton Gram.
The
Is this a
si}'
Sum
to
it
sig-
which
relates
any thing
as
Quod rapidam trahit vEtatem pecus est Melibosi, The cattle wot drags the Age, fast coach, is Meliboeus's.
Alas
that such an
!
Age
let
A^a
of rail-roads
Coachman's Lament.
Air.
Farewell
Farewell
my
tidy drag
And
My
my
varmint team
That used
to cut
away
go
like
smoke,
But could
It is,
n't
like
cuj),
steam.
indeed, a bitter
Thus
to
be sent to pot
My
bosom
boils at boiling
up
gallop or a trot.
96
My
's
rack'd,
;
act,
A
I
's
crost, is sore,
;
his,
bel-
as
97
Non
est
tuum aviam
instruere
to
suck eggs.
Humanum
It is
est inebriari.
frailty
human
or an amiable
weakness
to get
drunk.
it
to be
human
frailty.
UEASONABLE CREATURE.
it
to
be an amiable
exists be-
tween
"
Love
a dizziness,
Never
lets
a poor
man
Verbs of accusing, condemning, advising, acquitting, and the like, require a genitive case which
signifies the
charge
as
probri,
cum ipsum
se intu-
It is
fit
that he
of dishonesty
98
If this
could
attorney
We
ton,"
do not see
much fun
that
in that.
We
cannot help
thinking, however,
title for
in
mind of
you want a
(/ood dressing.
is
Putavi de calendis
Aprilibus
te
esse
admo-
nendum
I
first
to
be reminded of the
Young
reader
Were
from
1
large cake
were waiting
for
you below
but inconsiderate
hamper of
99
might
but we cannot
sell
go on
Oh
Matilda
but
we
it
was
cruel of
you
to
us in such a manner.
alter, the other,
neu-
verbs of
an
asini,
trucidationis
:
accusas
me
brother or
my
Satago,
to
Qui
ducit
uxorem rerum
satagit
full
He who
business.
of
'
We
O
!
ferentis
Oh
have pity on
my
back,
suffering
things
undeserved.
to to
forget,
memini,
to
remember, recorder,
to
call
mind,
Remember
the fifth of
November.
are
let off
No wonder
that so
many squibs i2
on
that
100
day
;
political
feeling connected
with
Hoc
te
spectantem
this
me meminisse
all
precor
When
How
particularly
young men
and
lovers,
and
all
to
be rememhered.
A coachman
lover
fare.
;
an ablative case, as
Xantippe, marito subacto, femoralium potita
fiiit.
At least he said he did, when he who would n't let him come.
is
Diminuam
I will
tibi
caput
Eheu
Oh
away my hoop
101
What
In the
a thing
it is
to
be a junior boy
to the
above
rule.
commodandum
live to
nobis vivunt
us.
]
'
The Jews
accommodate
us to live
which
laedo delecto,
and some
others,
when
102
ssepe solebam
was
often accustomed to
compare Ajax
to the
"
Deaf un,"
hearing,
sometimes an
accusative
inter, as
with the
prepositions
ad and
nivali
Pompey
Whether
called in the
it is
a proper name
It
a nigger or not,
may
be questioned.
may
;
also be doubted
whe-
except he be an ice
man
in
obvious
Si ad
nihil est
it is
If a flogging be
an imposition,
nothing.
flogging
is
to the boy,
master
whereas
as imposition
a task
to the
a verse task.
103
:
Lear gave
Hence we
Britons.
some notion of
the
great value of
money
in the time
of the Ancient
'.'
It is
pay
tailors.
it is
how
desirable
104
felicity,
manhood,
is
but a minor
inconvenience.
telling
govern a dative
when drunk,
could not
command
his
temper.
We
we
men-
we have
so often laughed at
themes,
it
the
Augustus
told
Antony
that
Lepidus
was
humbug.
mentioned.
Lepidus
is
di
funny name.
rule, rego, to rule.
105
;
rule,
as
That
is to
say,
when
it is
at the full,
and resembles
a great 0.
the paupers.
sibi
Non semper
temperat ipse
He
He
Non animos
own mind,
nor tempers
Ducrow manages
is
the horses.
like
Why
?
general
officer
a writing-
master
A. Because he
is
a ruler of lines.
case, as
juvencs,
committere
menti,
it
is
fit
to entrust no-
is soft.
In
lady.
fact,
106
non credit
trusts not the poet.
it
The costermonger
How
wrong, therefore,
is
to
call
him a green
grocer.
of opposing govern
Nunquam
obtemperat
tiro
hodiernus magistro
his master.
He threatened By presenting a
them.
sailor
death
to
pistol right
and
left
at each of
thrilling interest.
107
to the
enough, male,
ill,
inter,
for the
to
many men.
ration.
fits
Cramming,
it,
bene-
medical men,
who
again do good
in another
to their pati-
ents
by cramming them
of
way.
is
There
is
also a species
cramming which
found very
108
OH
niCRE
'S
C'MPLIMENT.
it
differs essentially
from
difficulty
And
yet they
make
light, as
much
as they can,
of
'
"SottUi. 'C^of^-v^
109
He
joked unseasonably
on
the
short-sighted
Doctor.
to
be blind
to
Not a few
as
One exceeds
another in ability.
better than
One
is
a good hand
construing, another
climbing.
Some boys
of a small
casting stones.
appetite
appetite
Sometimes precocious
sometimes
110
for
propensity
This
that
were,
by
inspiration
The most
are
of riding.
Those who
and usually
all
my
clothes.
Suppetit,
est cui
not poor, to
whom
use of things
suffices.
The two
last
pro-
alluded,
by relinquishing
query
sons,
their habits.
Is it possible that
We
recommend
this
and
all
others
who
Sum
case, as
Avith
many
The
belly
is
Particularly those of
Eton College.
Ill
or also
tibi,
or sibi,
added
sion, as
Cato suam
sibi
Hortensius.
Some
is,
The
fact
most probably
to
be
Bi-loan.
K 2
112
active, deponent, or
Procuratorem
fugito,
nam
Avoid an
rogue.
same
is
a cunning
Yet
are always
boasting
of
their deeds.
like
Poor animal
A coster-monger's donkey serves a hard servitude. A Sterne heart was once melted by
!
thy sufferings
how
?
by a
figure, as
sonat
human
crea-
This
may
be
said of boys
of various
kinds
a,9
of several descriptions
of
men, as cab-men,
may
likewise
be asserted of
113 and
match-women.
clerks,
Here
also
may be
specified,
of
many
foreigners
in ini.
clothing,
and
commonly
govern
two accusative
Ego docebo
I'll teach
te,
adolescentule,
lessons,
lectiones tuas
you your
young man.
vocative
This speech
is
usually the
prelude to something
which
elicits that
exemplification of the
in
the
first
part of the
Grammar.
Some
even
You
are required to
make twenty
verses on a
broomstick.
Why
itself
so
often
?
used in schools
to stimulate
in-
ventive genius
K 3
114
Nouns
Interea ad
templum non
Virgil.
mean time
the Trojan
woman went
to the
How odd
occasion
to
Here we take
to lose
to
an
opportunity
a comic rendering
any
word
which they
may
To
"
it
would be
lation.
to give
Vir
is
construed
called hero,
man ; some
we propose
fugam,
;
translate
it
cove.
;
animain
efflare,
knocked up
fraudatus,
choused ; contundere,
to
manner of an
Ca-
115
in the
A noun
Ovidius
dere fecit
of price
is
ablative case, as
solidis
duobus
fibulas
siphonem ascen-
Ovid pawned his buckles for two shillings. The sipho was a tube, pipe, or spout, projecting
from the shops of pawnbrokers, of
whom
there
is
every reason
to
many
in ancient
Rome
to
where placed
de
in order
be conveyed
to the
adytum
Vide Casaubon
Avunc
Vili,
Roman.
low
rate, for
at a
paulo, for
little,
minimo.
for
very
little,
magno,
much, nimio,
for too
much,
Dog's meat
is
how much,
much
quantilibet,
what you
will,
quanticunque
for
how much
soever, as
:
Non
nihili, of
es tanti
116
Imjus,
are
added
Nee verberationem
cussionem
I
flocci
:
pili aestiino
don't
regard
a spatting a hair.
A
front,
this,
viettle.
Verbs of abounding, of
their
filling,
contraries,
This circumstance
rise to the
it
We
the
throat.
while undergoing
the arm,
operation
remark
that that
Some
case, as
sometimes
govern a genitive
They had a
capital
We
are
sorry to remark
Fungor, to discharge,
vescor, to live
117
change, communico, to
commu-
nicate, supersedeo, to
ablative case, as
Qui
officiis.
He who
of a lion.
come
Q.
Why
]
is
mentioned by Lord
Bacon
A. Because he
is
118
Mereor,
deserve, with
ill,
worse,
pessime, very
the
ill,
is
joined to an
de, as
case with
preposition
De
The
libitinario
Notwithstanding
the doctor,
might at
first
in furnishing funerals,
invades the
undertaker's province.
Some verbs
case, as
Augustus
M. Antony.
An
is
added
to
some verbs, as
Porcis volentibus Isetissime epulabimur
:
to
it
by the ancient
as
Jos. Scalig. de
Myst. Eleusin.
An
verbs,
by
added
to
some
Qui animo
aegrotat,
eum
aera risum
moventem
the laugh-
ducere oportet.
He who
ing gas.
is
sick in
119
Much
endeavouring
the exhalation
by which
is
Rubet nasum
His nose
Candet genas
is red.
pale.
Some
tive case, as
iste,
et
mundum
indig-
is
Such a man
young man.
is
called
by the
ladies an interesting
Verbs Passive.
An
a dative case,
is
added
to
verbs passive, as
The
them as verbs
active, as
Titanes
laesae
And
120
artists,
in execution
commended.
Vapulo,
to
be beaten, veneo,
exulo,
to
to
be
sold, liceo,
fio,
be prized,
be banished,
to
be
made,
tion,
as
A
It
prseceptore vapulabis.
will be beaten
Eton Gram.
You
here at
by the master.
is
Malo a cive
spoliari
quam ab
hoste venire.
Eton
sold
Gram.
I
citizen than
by an enemy. The Romans were regularly sold by the enemy for once, when they had to go under the yoke.
mood
some
and substantives
by
the poets, as
fecit
is in
modern times,
by playing
the
Pandean
pipes.
Ajax
bonus
ire
minor
121
;
The Telamonian Ajax was a rum un to look at The lesser Ajax (as they say) a good un to go. The Grecians used to call Ajax senior, the fighting cock, and Ajax junior, the running cock. Verbs of the infinitive mood are sometimes placed alone by the figure ellipsis, as Siphonum de more oculis demittere fluctus
Dardanidae
:
to
As
for
^neas
am
industrious fleas.
122
Gerunds.
"
When
She mourned
Gerunds
stantives
in
genitive cases,
and adjectives, as
in general
but
it
must be allowed that those respectable individuals have often a great deal in them.
TUtlTl
ALDEKMANICUS.
Gerunds
ablative,
in
and
dum
with accusative
cases, as
cum loquendo
est
The means
123
Some things are written precisely after the writer's way of speaking. We once, for example, saw the
following notice posted in a gentleman's preserve.
Whear
Thes
Varmint,
'as
Grouns
the
Destruction
Of
Any
A place
It
very honourable
to
plead
in.
may be
Old Bailey.
is signified,
When necessity
is
Cavendum est ne deprensus sis You must take care you 're not
caught
out.
124
A piece
boys on
shirking
many
occasions,
;
down town
making
school, or in the
yard
con-
emulating Jupiter, a
la
Salmoneus,
by blowing a
cat,
cigar
hoisting a frog
tailing a
dog or
or in
to
the precepts of
learning to construe
furtivel}'
denuding the
of their
Cum
Gerunds are
Ad
It is
a bore to
make
verses.
we
shall not
The supine
in
um
signifies actively,
and follows
ipsae
They come
selves
to see,
may be
seen.
So
said,
or
Was
there an
opera at
Rome
The supine
signifies passively,
and follows
nouns adjective, as
125
esu turpe
:
Quod
be eaten.
idem
est et
is
That which
be smelled,
also nasty to
Except venison,
onions,
and cheese.
Nouns
Tempus time. There is a story, mentioned (we quote from memory) by the learned Joe Miller;
of a fellow
who
seeing
it
in-
the
Persons
who have
lived a
hngiime
;
in the world,
Nouns which
commonly
Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit No mortal man is wise at all hours.
The excuse
of a philosopher for getting married.
But nouns which signify the duration of time are commonly put in the accusative case, as
Pugna
The
It is
inter
juvenem Curtium
et
Titum Sabinum
an error
suppose that
Roman
mills
were
mill
The above
l3
126
mu'^t
must have
much pains.
few days
:
We
A
be
say also
in paucis diebus, in a
somewhat
for
timed
we
Space
one presently.
in the ablative, as
jam
mille
passus processerat,
summa
Csesar had
diligence
as a
now advanced a
not
know
a blackguard
who
is
to sing
and apply,
is
maxim we would
ful readers.
name
and
be of the
first
or second declension,
as
mentiri nescio
I
What
shall I
do at
Rome ?
to lie.
127
What a bare-faced
and bull story
the forum.
is
us a mystery.
home,
militisB,
follow the
Parvi sunt
foris
anna
home.
domi
Arms
are of
little
wisdom
Canada.
at
But
plural
is
if the
name
number
put
fuisse
They say
You
needn't believe
be seen at Tivoli.
often put after verbs sig-
name
of a place
without a preposition, as
Concessi
Cantabrigiam ad
:
capiendum ingenii
man.
cultum
I
went
to
Cambridge
to
become a
fast
After
this
128
Rus
ire
jussus sum,
I
was
rusticated.
Domum
missus eram,
was
sent home.
Going
tates, in
too fast at
The name
sometimes added
to
verbs
without a proposition, as
Arbitror te Virginia veteri venisse
I
:
Verbs Impersonal.
Verbs impersonal have no nominative
After a tragedy
case, as
:
very pleasant
to
go under the
Shades.
The worst
are
of
these
" Shades"
is,
that
people
in
much
These impersonals,
fert, it
interest,
it
concerns,
are joined to
any genitive
cases
feminine, mea,
and
cuja, as
flats
to
also, are
added,
tanti, of so
of
much,
129
soever,
quanticunque, of
how much
tantidem, of just so
much
as
Of such consequence
is it to
do honest things.
By
this
course
of conduct,
Much
it
may
true,
is
may
Yet honesty
is is in
is
Policy
a branch of
the wig.
affairs.
of
fact that
transitively an accusative, as
130
For
A rainistris nobis benefit We enjoy blessings from Ministers. instance No We cannot think
cantare
of
any
just at present.
Me juvat
I like to
" Isabelle."
as
is certain.
We
to
of.
shrewdly suspect
more
is
peculiarly atMed to
pertinet,
it
attinet, it belongs,
per-
concerns
all to live
well
a genitive
is
put after
pities, pudet,
it
shames, piget,
grieves, as
" Nihil
"
me
Trist
Shahd
My
may
it.
be ele;
that
by
Thus
stat,
stamus.
'
131
that
is,
Statur a me;
illis
:
it is
stood
by me,
stand
statur ab
it is
stood
by them,
or they
stand.
King George
is
a standing joke.
Manufaetorj/
I''
132
such things.
A dative
dus, as
Sollicito
case
is
sometimes added
to participles
in
fiery nose is to
Participles,
genitive case, as
133
Greedy
weary
of,
sative case, as
Philosophus exosus ad
philosopher hating
i. e.
Malthusian.
to death, sig-
The comedians
are hated
by
the saints.
We
will
mean
Rueful Countenance.
We
roads,
con-
Natus,
born,
prognatus,
born,
satus,
sprung,
and
De
He
Britons.
134
Q.
like a
Why
is
King
of
England
Leviathan
A. Because he
is
En
and ecce,
to
most commonly
En Romanus
See the
:
Roman
(q.
rum-un.)
En
and
ecce, adverbs
to
most commonly
En
togam squamosam
at his scaly toga
!
Look
Ecce caudam
Twig
his tail
,^ (S
r^^-^
'^^.A^^mf"
__
y^//////
iLD
O M ST
"
<C
E L
OC
S-U-.
U.f
NORV.i=
ON
CR'
135
and quantity,
Ubi gentium
est
Quadra Russelliana
is
Where
in the
world
Russell Square
We
absurd.
quam
it is
flere
poteram
Talking of weeping
how
odd
that an affecis
when
her husband
trans-
ported
for life.
parum
little
enough.
by small boys
for
at the instigation
of their
the
amusement
of
visitors.
"
little
deep in the windingths ofo. whale," or " ray name is Nawval," and the like recitations are inflicted,
have "
all
satis eloquentiae"
;
conscience
pientiae
enough of eloquence, in and we cannot but think that " saparum," " wisdom little enough" is di*^all
played by
lives unprofitably
himself
M 2
136
Especially
he have a large
circle of
female ac-
quaintance.
aliter,
otherwise, and
Plure
aliter.
More
Muito
Paulo
ante.
post.
Much
before.
Little behind.
before, are guilty of a great
waste
of time;"
make
it
little
behind
should
up by a
or
Instar, like
of,
equal
and ergo,
for
the sake
after
them, as
137
equum
-^dificant
By
This
the divine
may appear
incredible
Mun-
much more
:
astonishing.
As may
last,
and also
Socrates docuit
Xenophontem
et
et
Platonem geo:
graphiam, astronomiam,
Socrates taught
rationem globorum
Xenophon
Q.
How may
terrogation
"'Who
Emi
I
bought a book
Walkinghame. M 3
138
The
after
quam, than,
plus, more,
is
often understood
less,
amphus, more,
and minus,
:
as
AmpUus
For
we
are in-
debted
Cicero.
The author
to
whom
if
reference
we
mistake
a similar observation.
we
feel that
which
it is
impossible to
we make
are
too
comical mention.
Thank goodness
months
in a half
there
!
are not
more than
six
year
or indefi-
mood, as
:
it
or
persuaded
to
it
when he
Here
it
may
be remarked
young
to
like
on their
is in
fingers.
Secondly
Grease
in
cannot be expected
at the
same time
A-merry-key.
139
Dum,
for
dummodo,
so
that,
and quousque,
until, requires
a subjunctive mood, as
Dum
felix sis,
quid refert
What's
mood, as
You
Ut,
inodo,
for,
postquam
is
and quo;
how,
it
joined to an indicative
mood
but
when
signifies
as,
quanquam, although
final
utpote, for-
asmuch
or
the
cause, to
subjunctive
mood, as
Ut sumus
in
Ponto
Since that
we
Danube has
Were
ments
]
Ambition,
to
we know,
Romans
tread on slijjpery
Imagine Cato heard of) ever struck out a slide. " coming the cobbler's knock." or Seneca
Te
oro,
domine, ut exeam
sir,
I^lease,
let
me
go out.
such as are
great, quotus,
how
140
against, stupid.
the speech of a
Roman cabman.
141
be added, as
loco avunculi
;
Habeo pigneratorem
I
z.
e.
in loco
in loco.
A
the
also
sition, as
Olympo Vulcanum
calce exegit
Reasoning a pos-
it
unpleasant to Vulcan.
Proeteriit
He
cut
Verbs compounded
ab,
de,
e,
ex,
in,
Abstinuerunt a vino
wine.
to the Tiber-totallers.
an allusion
was unknown
in
Rome, except
and
142
Accipit in pueros
He admits
the boys.
when
much of the young gentlemen intrusted to his care. Sub, when it relates to time, is commonly joined
to
an accusative case, as
Isaaculus
time
About the
same
seas.
Ikey was
it
transported
beyond the
should be questioned
as a necessary or
was transported
beyond,
Super,
for, ultra,
is
Super
Proferet imperium
et
Garamantas
et
Indos
He
will
in poetical
measure.
?
What may
143
to his
in
mud.
is
What
follows
a lark
or rather a
mud
But tenus
it
always
case, as
:
Crurum tenus
up
to the legs.
to
Which
Ascot.
it
is
very necessary
be at
Epsom and
Spem
gregis,
ah
silice in
left
nuda connixa
reliquit
the hope
of the flock,
flint stones.
And
exposed
as an Irishman remarked,
for tinder infancy.
least,
It
was a dangerous
to
situation
say the
O O
joined to a nominative,
lex
!
meum
Oh law Oh my O
! !
O
care
alaudas.
!
Oh
!
larks
Oh
!
Oh
is
dear
We
Latin
for
oh Crikey
144
Heii
!
alas
a nominative,
sometimes
an accusative,
and
!
occasionally to a
vocative case, as
!
Heu
bellis
Lack-a-fZcmy.
Heu diem
!
Lack-a-<fay.
!
Proh
Oh,
Clamor
Oh
cry
ye gods and
little fishes
Heu
miserande puer
to
Oh, boy,
be pitied
What
boy
is
more
to
Twist
is
People
effect
may
which
are subjected to
we contend
is
the readiest
way
to
nullis
amor
Woe
is
me
by no herbs.
had smoked
said that, if he
chewed tobacco.
The
by
ancients beljeved
Why
then should
it
to allay the
same
its
feeling
manner.
corresfor
may
be physic even
And
for
145
weed
besides, love
Va3 misero
capiti,
madefacto,
sa?pe
fenestras
tuae
:
Woe
to
my
146
a few
which
by
on
this interesting
point.
It is,
that the
Romans always
selves
distich will
to
have
appears
us that
salutary a precaution
is
sometimes adopted
this hint
in these
modern days
and with
we
PROSODY.
All you that bards of note would be,
Must study
so
the
sound of syllables.
though
how
Prosody
ing,
is
and Time.
to
As
it
;
re-
quired
repeat
in
mering or drawling
and with as
breathing
possible.
147
tlie
and fiddle-makers
and breathing
it
we
can.
In this place
we
only of Time.
Now
of
Time a very
all
great deal
may
be said,
it is
capa-
In the
first
place,
Time
flies
;
but
this
we have had
Time
is
as also that
Time
is
he
is
and
killed
but
he never complains.
It is
Time,
is
Then we might
forelock
him by the
but for
two reasons.
that all this has been said long
it is
One
ago
;
of
them
is,
nothing at
all to
the purpose.
but
we speak
of,
(although
is
we hope
;
it
will
be
no plant
neverthe-
is
a necessary ingredient in
grammatical
stuffing.
N 2
148
Time
prosody
is
cing of a syllable.
Like whist,
it is
divided into
Long and
Short.
:
A long time
is
marked
;
as pilula, a
A
loped
two or more
syllables, according to
their time, the
short feet,
broad
splay
feet,
may be added
here,
we
is
shall
only
notice
spondees
and
A
an
spondee
foot of
two
syllables, as infans,
infant.
dactyl
is
foot of three
little
syllables, as angeliis,
an angel, porciilus, a
pig.
Scanning
is
by
the foot,
according to
To scanning
Synaloepha
is
next
as
149
:
nasoqiie cruento
came
off with
my
nose.
We
in evasi,
on the
strength of a synaloepha.
-But
off
at
least
there
been performed.
Ecthlipsis
is
;
is
cut off
with
its
vowel
vowel, as
specta-
We
If
saw a
horrible, ugly,
gardens.
in
a den
what a
Synaeresis
into one,
the
contraction
of two syllables
Stravit
humi demens
Mad
Hydrophobia occurring
of a dog
Diaeresis
two, as evoluisse
evolvisse.
Thus Ovid
says,
by dandies and
theatrical artists.
N 3
150
They ought
Caesura
is
to
have unwound
their spindles.
when
made
long
Pectoribiis inhians
breasts
he
an account of every
all
it
we
can
we
to
wish he
may
get
it.
As
it
behoveth
no one
us
to
behoveth not
commonly taught
feet.
to
make
An
As
the
is
it
The
fifth
foot in this
may be
as
:
his Macintosh.
also is
sometimes a spondee, as
151
magnum
Jovis incrementum.
The
last syllable of
affair.
every verse
is
common
An
syllables, one
of
Avhich is placed
third foot,
The two
;
feet
may
the
two
last are
always dactyls, as
:
Res est infellx, plenaque fraudis amor Love is an unlucky affair, and full of humbug.
We
feel
before said, to
make
is
Grammar
with respect to
The rhyt-hm
by
ciple of the
of Latin verses
may
be easily learned
examples following
Diim
de, diim
dum
Diim
N. B.
didle, dfim
dum,
diim.
The
of poetry
into the
Comic
various
many
we wished
one
to posterity.
152
Patres conscripti
lippi.
took
scarlet habebat,
Stormum surgebat, et boatum overset ebat, Omnes drownerunt, quia swimaway non potuerunt,
tied
up
to the tail of
a dead
Here,
also,
may
perhaps
be properly introduced.
Conturbabantur Constantinopolitani,
Innumerabilibus solhcitudinibus.
first Syllable.
in
in
a river in
mouth
in like
Mondanc-
position.
as
pinguis,
Ingens,
name
of a hero.
2. vowel coming before one consonant at the end of a word, and another at the beginning of the
next, as
able to hurt.
sit,
The
by
syllables jor,
are long
position.
153
spoils
from Saf-
A sliort vowel
is
The breeches
are
his father's.
A vowel
thy,
before another
is
always
short,
as tua,
memoria, memory.
Except the genitive cases of pronouns in ius, where the i is a common i, although alterius has
always a short
i
and
alius a long
i.
declension
is
e,
like
Punch's nose,
faciei, of
i 's,
as
a face.
154
The syllable^
r
and
is
man
may
lounge on
his ottoman,
Ca. Sa.
is
Dius, heavenly,
has
the
first
syllable long
interjection
Diana,
common
Ohe
Thus
there's a common medium Between a goddess and an interjection. A vowel before another in Greek words
of connexion,
is
some-
times long, as
Caerula, Plerides, sunt vobis tegmina
crurum
Greek
possessives,
fuit,
as
:
Somniculosa
^neas
goes,
When
Words
same
'tis
stick, that
same quantity
with some
155
Compounds
to
to read,
comes perlego,
By
reading through
though we hope
it
may
in the
case of the C. L. G.
If to a preterperfect tense belong
the
first is
long
speech so
cool.
To which we need not cite exceptions small. Look in your Gradus and you'll find them all.
Consult also the Eton Grammar, and works of
the
poets, passim,
to the
as well
for
exceptions
:
to the
above as
1.
Words
terperfect tense
have the
first
syllabic short
as
Brave Higinbottom
2.
fell
and
syllable
long
'em.
156
some time
fit
'tis
of no use to resist
so here
goes
Oh
afford to
me,
Inspire
my
Ideality
Thou who,
On
him,
who
to
luckily for us
;
sound on quiv'ring
fire
lyre,
;
Words' ends
shall be
my theme
sublime,
Now
first
descanted on in rhyme.
little
Come,
bet a quart,)
As
Or
puta,
ita,
postea, quia,
;
save such as
we must
class
With Grecian vocatives in as, And ablatives of first declension Besides the aforesaid, we may mention
Nouns numeral that end in ginta, Which common, as a bit of flint are.
Some
terminate in
;
h,
d,t\
but those in c
157
Form
toes
As
long
feet
Street.
Though nee and donee every bard Hath written short as Hanway yard,
Fac,
hie,
Now
Like
to
a jiffey or a second,
Though we must call the Gradus wrong, Or these, of fifth declension, long.
As
In
come
mode derivative therefrom. Long second persons singular Of second conjugation are.
And
monosyllables in
for
too,
e.
Take,
example, me,
te, se,
Then,
adverbial adjectives
Are long
Of adjectives
they've derivation
each
all
final eta
Greek,
long on
wit
To
(for thus
we
render nempe)
158
THI2
Which
i,
Rememb'ring
Are common,
Nis!
is
always
and quasi's
Short
In
i
(At
we may
,)
Making
For instance
Phyllis, Phyllidos.
(A name oft utter'd with a sigh,) Whereof the dative ends in i. Words in / ending short are all,
Save
nil for nihil,
sal,
and
sol.
And some
To
In,
cite
;
as Michael, Raphael.
n's are long,
Your
save forsitan
Veruntamen and
which
Are
short as
any
tailor's stitch;
These, therefore,
we
1
As
viden'
men'
and audin
so in
in
short,
they say.
But every an
for long
must pass
in as.
159
finis
Doth
in the genitive
make
inis.
And
An
i and y Alexin, Ttyn. Greek words are short I'd have you know,
That end
in
on with
little o,
Common
are terminating
o's.
Are
long,
take
tanto,
quanto
also
Save mutuo,
we rank
nor
;
to
be long.
Nor
cito, ego,
duo
no nor
;
Ambo
and
Homo
long.
But monosyllables
Are counted
Example
to
to
sto.
And
'S as long as
If r should
from here
Dover.
chance a word
wind up,
But
and
and fur
ciir.
As long must needs be cited here. With words from Greek that end in
Though 'mong
These two exempted
er
pater, mater
160
Short in the
we
state
em,
Namely,
Now,
the Eton
Ends words
in just as
As
as thus
In order, as,
As, in a general
way appears
Long unto
all
But some Greek words take care to mark as Short, for example Pallas, Areas
And
An
Es
Though
you
As
must view,
The
And have an
The
As
Means what
But pes
Like
to
is
a Poet
is n't,)
rich
To
(Name
The
and
for
grub
figure
Metonymy
through,)
And
161
Sum
Are
with
its
compounds forming
es,
you
please,
1
plural neuters.
Is,
we
all
Save
istis.
Adding
The
is in
Samnis long by
its genitive's
right is
Because
Samnltis.
Where you
applies,
eis,
And
Is
contracted,
meaning
Long too, and pray remember this Are monosyllables in is. Save is the nominative pronoun,
And
quis,
and
bis,
which
is
last is
no noun.
When
But
verbs by
concluded are.
;
make,
The
and no mistake
as honos dominos.
162
short,
and that
in
Words
unless
geni-
when
us
is
long, the
same
Pronunciation nouns
may
claim
still
detain us.
The
first
fifth
are those
Singular
short as
monkey's nose.
and
iis,
Long
are mus,
criis,
thiis
and
siis
All monosyllables in
And
Translated us by
Lastly,
all
men
in
o^nous.
words
u are
long,
And
so
we end
the companion
the object
for
of our cares
for
which
alone
oil
;
we
live,
daylight.
it is
Our work, we
it
ended
and such as
we commit
iii,
to the world.
Lib.
Ode
XXX.
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163
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