EXPLANATION OF REFERENCES AND ABBRE

VIATIONS.

ALL reference numerals in the "Lessons from the Grammar," and those marked "G" in other parts of the work, refer to the author's Latin Grammar. The other references are to articles in this work.

VI. Agreement of Appositives. Rule II. 363.

VII. Genitive with Nouns. Rule XVI. 395.

VIII. Cases with Prepositions. Rule XXXII. 432-435.

In Part First the enclosed numerals standing at the beginning of each lesson refer to the sections in the Reader which the lesson is intended to follow. Thus [1-6] shows that this lesson is to be learned after the pupil has read the first six sections in the Reader.

2 The lessons from the Grammar contain the grammatical points involved in the Exercises, and should be carefully learned, or reviewed, in the Grammar itself. The references are all to the author's Latin Grammar.

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1. TIGRANES. Looking in the vocabulary for the corresponding Latin, we find Tigranes, the same as in English.

2. THE. The English article, a, an, the, has no Latin equivalent. It must therefore be omitted in translating into Latin. See Gram. 42, 4. 3. KING. The corresponding Latin is rex, which must be in the Nominative, in apposition with Tigrānes, according to Rule II.

4. The Appositive generally follows its subject, as in English. Hence Tigrānes rex.

II. The love of glory.

1. THE LOVE, amor; THE - not translated.

2. Or, sign of the Genitive.

3. GLORY, gloria. Of glory, gloriae; Gen. Sing.

4. The Genitive may either precede or follow its noun, but seems more frequently to follow when not emphatic. See Gram. 598. Hence we have

III. Before light.

Amor gloriae.

1. BEFORE, ante. No Latin case expresses the relation before. Hence a preposition must be used.

2. LIGHT, lux. But the preposition ante is used only with the Accusative. Hence lucem, and not lux, must be used. See Gram. 433.