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Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Latin for Beginners about?

To make the course preparatory to Caesar at the same time systematic, thorough, clear, and interesting is the purpose of this series of lessons. The first pages are devoted to a brief discussion of the Latin language, its history, and its educational value. The body of the book, consisting of seventy-nine lessons, is divided into three parts. Part I is devoted to pronunciation, quantity, accent, and kindred introductory essentials. Part II carries the work through the first sixty lessons, and is devoted to the study of forms and vocabulary, together with some elementary constructions, a knowledge of which is necessary for the translation of the exercises and reading matter. The first few lessons have been made unusually simple, to meet the wants of pupils not well grounded in English grammar. Part III contains nineteen lessons, and is concerned primarily with the study of syntax and of subjunctive and irregular verb forms. The last three of these lessons constitute a review of all the constructions presented in the book. There is abundant easy reading matter; and, in order to secure proper concentration of effort upon syntax and translation, no new vocabularies are introduced, but

Who reads Latin for Beginners?

Author

Benjamin L. D'Ooge

Publisher

Ginn and Company

Published

1911

Language

EN

Category

children's

Subjects

Education, Language Learning

Rating

4.5 / 5 (466 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14