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OF THE

LATIN LANGUAGE:

For the Use of Schools and Coileges.

WITH EXERCISES AND VOCABULARIES

BY

WM. BINGHAM, A.M.

SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BINGHAM SCHOOL.

AUTHOR OF

BINGHAM'S LATIN READER, BINGHAM'S CÆSAR, BINGHAM'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR, ETC.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by

WILLIAM BINGHAM,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Pamlico District of North Carolina.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

WILLIAM BINGHAM,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Pamlico District of North Carolina.

ransfer from Circ. Dept.

Mubi

raccow NOV 26 1909

PREFACE

TO THE SECOND EDITION.

IN preparing the accompanying work, it has been the aim of the author to supply what he has felt in his own experience to be a great desideratum,—a practical first book in Latin, simple enough for beginners, and yet full enough for more advanced students. Free use has been made of the works of the best German, English, and American authors, and no pains has been spared to produce a book adapted to the wants of our youth.

It will be observed that the paradigms have been syllabicated with reference to the English method of pronunciation; but the teacher can without difficulty use either the Roman or the Continental method.

Madvig's system of gender in the third declension has been adopted, as the most philosophical and the shortest, all the rules and exceptions occupying but two pages; and, though teachers will find it inconvenient to have old associations broken up, the author is convinced that a

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