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Basilica Sancta Mariae ad Dubrascum Specula Romana
Photographed by M. Jacolette.
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ORA MARITIMA
A LATIN STORY FOR BEGINNERS
WITH GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES
BY
E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, D. Litt., Oxon.
Professor of Latin and Greek in the University of Birmingham
Natura non facit saltum
SIXTH EDITION
LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIMD.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1909
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CONTENTS
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Text |
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Ora Maritima | 1st Declension, with the Present Indicative of sum and of the 1st Conjugation | 23
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II.— |
Patruus meus | 2nd Declension in -us | 26
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III.— |
Monumenta antiqua | 2nd Declension in um | 28
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IV.— |
Delectamenta puerorum | 2nd Declension; words like puer | 30
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V.— |
Magister noster | 2nd Declension; words like magister | 32
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VI.— |
Britannia antiqua | Mixed forms of 1st and 2nd Declension, with Past Imperfect Indicative of sum and of the 1st Conjugation (Active Voice) | 33
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VII.— |
Vestigia Romanorum | The other Tenses of the Indicative of sum and of the 1st Conjugation (Active Voice) | 38
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VIII.— |
Expeditio prima C. Iulii Caesaris | 3rd Declension | 43
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IX.— |
Pax violata | ” | 45
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X.— |
Certamina varia | ” | 46
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XI.— |
Naves Romanae | ” | 48
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XII.— |
Gentium Britannicarum Societas | ” | 49
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XIII.— |
Maria Britannica | ” | 51
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XIV.— |
Britannia pacata | Recapitulation of 3rd Declension | 51
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XV.— |
Robur et aes triplex | Adjectives of 3rd Declension | 55
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| PREPARATIONS AND GRAMMAR | 59
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| DRILL EXERCISES ON THE TEXT | ||||
| Latin Drill, Conversations, etc, with English sentences for re-translation | 101
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| APPENDICES | ||||
| I. How to translate the Latin Gerundive and Gerund | 138
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| II. How to translate the principal English Prepositions | 141
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| LATIN-ENGLISH VOCABULARY | 145
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| Preface |