The Eton Latin Grammar

The Eton Latin Grammar Synopsis

Excerpt from The Eton Latin Grammar: With the Addition of Many Useful Notes and Observations, and Also of the Accents and Quantity; Together With an Entirely New Version of All the Latin Rules and Examples

This Work consists: of the common Eton Text, with very slight alterations in four or five places only; but with the addition of accent: on all English words of more than one syllable; and of the quantities of the several syllables of all the Latin words; and also of the acute accent on the syllable to be accented in every Latin word of more than one syllable. The vast utility of this plan can never be so fairly appreciated as by comparing the pronunciation of boys in schools where this Grammar is used, with the pronunciation of boys in schools where it is not used: and by viewing at the same time the diminution of labour to persons engaged in tuition, and also the satisfaction they must feel, at the accuracy, and accelerated progress, of their pupils.

Independent of the improvements just named, the common Eton text is rendered clearer than heretofore, by the method Of printing the Latin, and by the amplification of the English Of several of the words.

The Notes, appended to the Text, are of the most useful description, being selections from the best authors of antiquity condensed into as few words as possible, yet always preserving a lucidity. The same plan of marking the accents and quantities is pursued in the Notes as in the Text.

Again, in the present Work, the Construiu g is entirely new, -the genitive case of the several nouns, and, when anomalous, sometimes even other cases, being given with whatever else appeared to me to be calculated to render the Latin more intelligible, and the whole more profitable to learners, than the old mode of translating the Rules and Examples could render it.

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