least for some time, choosing the easier exercises of both. I have to acknowledge the courtesy of those living authors who have given me permission to use extracts from their writings, and also of their publishers. In Part III. will be found Specimens of Exercises set in the various British Universities. The Introduction has no claims to fulness, but may be useful for reference. It contains a good deal for which I am indebted to the Grammars of Roby, Kennedy, Madvig, Zumpt, and Donaldson; to Dr. Potts' "Hints towards Latin Prose Composition," and Professor Geddes' " Melviniana ". I have added notes to the first exercises; but as the true method of education is to let the pupil first grapple with a difficulty, and then to help him if he requires it, I have not carried these far. The Introduction, it is hoped, will supply deficiencies in this respect. GLASGOW ACADEMY, June, 1880. J. M. CONTENTS. Ambiguity of English Prepositions with Gerundives Peculiar Conjunctions- quin, quominus, quod, ut, ne, &c........ Order of Words, Substantive and Adjective....... Order of Words, Words Similar in Sound, or Different in Sense..... Order of Words, Relation of Clause to Clause in Sentence....... Order of Words, Periodic Structure....... Order of Words, Relation of Sentence to Sentence in Paragraph. PAGE CONTINUOUS LATIN PROSE. SEQUENCE OF TENSES IN THE SUB JUNCTIVE MOOD. ACTIVE VOICE. I.—AFTER PRESENTIAL TENSES-Present (a), Perfect (b), [Sign II.-AFTER HISTORICAL TENSES-Imperfect (a), Aorist (b), Would have, after a dependent interrogative is generally made thus in the Active Voice (Roby II., p. 211) :— I ask, have asked, will ask what the boys would have said, I was asking, asked, had asked what the boys would have said, NOTE. But after any other connective except an interrogative, e.g., ut, quin, &c., fuerint seems best after both presential and historical tenses. There is (was) no doubt that the general would have taken the city, Non dubium est (erat) quin dux urbem capturus fuerit. (a) Rogo quid a pueris dicatur. was, or has been, said by the boys. will be said (b) Rogavi quid a pueris dictum sit or fuerit. (c) Rogabo quid pueri dicturi sint (Active Voice). (c) This is the only way possible with an adjective-interrogative like quid; with an adverbial-interrogative like cur, ubi, quomodo, it would be made thus: I ask why the book will be sent, Rogo cur futurum sit ut liber mittatur. II. AFTER HISTORICAL TENSES. (a) I was asking, &c., (b) I asked, &c., (c) I had asked (a) Rogabam (b) Rogavi (c) Rogaveram was said what had been said quid a pueris diceretur. by the boys. quid a pueris dictum esset or fuisset. quid pueri dicturi essent, but cur futurum esset ut liber mitteretur. Would have in passive (after adjective-interrogative), I ask, have asked, &c., what would have been said by the boys, I asked, was asking, &c., what would have been said by the boys, |