Pro patria: a Latin story for beginners, being a sequal to 'Ora Maritima', with grammar and exercises

E. A. (Edward Adolf) Sonnenschein

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$B 3Db mtD -/j',-^^;r'^-;^^ i: •.^ I A STORY FORLATIN BEGINNERS Pi^OF. E.A.SONNEiNSCHEIN.DJJTT. FTon or Provost MONVMENTVM-IN-MEMORIAM FREDERICI-HVGONIS SHERSTON-ROBERT5 AD.TVGELAM-FACTv/M- A LATINPRO PATRIA : STORY FOR BEING ABEGINNERS, TO 'ORASEQUEL MARITIMA,' WITH GRAMMARAND EXERCISES BY E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, D.LITT., PROFESSOR IN THE UNI-OXON., VERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM the writ,Qui procul hinc, legend's The frontier is fargrave away, ante diem ;Qui periit Sed sedjniles, pro patria. Henry Newbolt ; ' Clifton Chapel. LONDON SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & LIM^CO., NEW YORK : THE COMACMILLAN 1907 HA C \- ^" ' ; c- t, ^{/ Reprinted 1907,FiRST Issue, 1903 ; M^^c§§ 7~9' VI. Britannia Pacata. 12hochie, haec,§§ ia-13. Romana.VII. Pax of 15Adjectives§ 14. Comparatives of 15§ 15. Superlatives PastPassive Voice of ist ; Present,§§ 16, 17. Conjugation Future tensesand 17Imperfect Rutupinum.VIII. Castellum 20and Exclamations18.§ Questions —in ... 20andquod quis, quid questions§ 19. qui, qv.ae, clauses which are not 21in21. questions20, quae, quod§§ qui, Past and2nd Present, Future,22. ; Imperf.Conjugation§ Active 24 .and Passives of 2nd .Declension 24Conjugation23. 4th§ Saxones.IX. Angli et Active .... 262nd Perfect ; Stem,Conjugation§§ 24-26. —Future Perfect Passive how ex-andPerfect, Pluperfect§ 27. 28pressed Declension 29§§ 28-30. 5th X. Res Africanae. of Verbs 31§ 31. Recapitulation and Passive ...Active ; Present, 33§ Conjugation32. 3rd X CONTENTS PAGE XI. Origo Reipublicae Africanae.

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A STORY FORLATIN BEGINNERS
Pi^OF. E.A.SONNEiNSCHEIN.DJJTT.FTon or
ProvostMONVMENTVM-IN-MEMORIAM
FREDERICI-HVGONIS
SHERSTON-ROBERT5
AD.TVGELAM-FACTv/M-A LATINPRO PATRIA : STORY
FOR BEING ABEGINNERS,
TO 'ORASEQUEL MARITIMA,'
WITH GRAMMARAND EXERCISES
BY E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, D.LITT.,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNI-OXON.,
VERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
the writ,Qui procul hinc, legend's
The frontier is fargrave away,
ante diem ;Qui periit
Sed sedjniles, pro patria.
Henry Newbolt
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Clifton Chapel.
LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & LIM^CO.,
NEW YORK : THE COMACMILLAN
1907HA
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Preface
and its theThe idea on which Ora Maritima presentmy sequel,
be aare is that an narrativebased, interesting mayvolume,
aelements of a thanbetter vehicle for the languageteaching
that theof isolatedcollection sentences, providedgrammar
and as tonarrative is so constructedinteresting graduated
in itself a basis for the ofconstitute study grammar.systematic
a book which should nothas been to writethen,My object,
the minds of the interest of itsto throughonly appeal pupils
a ladderbut also form asmatter, complete grammaticalsubject
of exercise books. Omne tulitas the driest punctum quidry
utile dulci.miscuit
for Pro Patria I have adheredIn out thiscarrying programme
in thatthe ideal which I set for Orato Maritima,up myself
'
be classical in but modern inthe Latin text should form,
on the coast ofThe scene is laid in a housecountrysetting.'
and the time of the actionand afterwards at Winchester,Kent,
I haveis the from to thus1899 June 1900.period September
to two into whichbeen enabled to of action thegive unity parts
ofnarrative falls. The first is taken with athe up studypart
to CastleRoman Britain in connexion with a visit Richborough ;
with the Boer the first news of which arrivesthe second War,
It issoon after the conclusion of the summer holidays. my hope
readers find in the first a more vividthat partmy young may
Romans than isof the condition of Britain under thepicture
contained in most school histories of and in the treat-
;England
I to itsment of the Boer War have endeavoured outbring
dramatic interest and heroic incidents. ofParty politics are,
out of view.course, kept
VVI PREFACE
^The amount of covered Pro Patria seemgrammar by may
to some noteachers small doubt,disproportionately ; and,
if it had been to teach Imy object simply grammar, might
have made the text shorter. But a inlong experience teaching
Latin to of and has made mevariouspupils very ages stages
as to the value of a ofsceptical skin-deep knowledge grammar.
is oneIt to learn declensions and out of athing conjugations
or from and anothergrammar grammar sentences, quite thing
to know them as in actual life. Howthey appear many boys
and leave school without realgirls having acquired any mastery
even of the kind of Latin or ofthesimplest power making
use of the facts which have soany practical grammatical they
learned ! That is the sort of educational resultlaboriously
ison which the Latin in schoolspresent outcry against
based. The mistake seems to be that the elemen-largely great
of are turned into atary stages learning purely grammatical
and that the is hurried over before thediscipline grammar
of the and the literature are commenced.languagestudy proper
Declensions and learned in this fashion find noconjugations
real in mind at the outcome of thethe ; or,lodgment best,
*
tedious is that the holds the in his hand,'process pupil parts
' ^misses binds them it isbut the thatspirit together.* against
this abstract method of that Ora Maritima and Proteaching
Patria are a It has been to write for theprotest. my object
*
of the a real which shall have ause book/beginner literary
as well as a interest of its and from which thelinguistic own,
shall more than apupil gain something bowing acquaintance
with Nouns and Verbs. I not shunnedhave, therefore, repeti-
I aimed at a certaintions and have
; deliberately providing
1 The from which Pro Patria starts is that which is reachedpoint
isin Ora and the carried on to the end of theMaritima, pupil regular
accidence.
2 Dann hat er die Teile in seiner Hand ;
! dasFehlt, leider nur Band.geistige —Goethe, Faust,