Magna Carta LatinaArgo Books, 1975 - 296 pages Why another Latin grammar? The history of Latin studies is strewn with the dead bones of textbooks, conceived in enthusiasm, published in hope, and interred in despair. 'Magna Carta Latina' began in Professor Rosenstock-Huessy's son's failure in high school Latin, it flourished in teaching generations of Dartmouth students the mother-tongue of Western culture, and it found its way at long last into the precincts of theology. Can a generation that knows no Latin reason, philosophize, theologize, sing, pray, or worship? The authors of 'Magna Carta Latina' answer No to that question and set out to supply the missing language. In Latin's family tree, they assert, there are no black sheep or poor relations: from its earliest fragments to its latest use in our day, Latin is an organic whole. And the texts offered for study in this book bespeak this conviction. In one semester the basic grammar is learned, within a year a variety of Latin styles of moderate difficulty is mastered. |
Contents
d | 10 |
His Fathers Latin | vii |
Part | xii |
Part | 14 |
Lesson I | 24 |
Lesson III | 31 |
Lesson V | 37 |
Lesson VI | 43 |
109a Ecologia secundum Iohannem Calvinum | 111 |
Passive Forms | 114 |
Passive Imperatives | 115 |
The Supine | 118 |
Homo et Serpens | 120 |
Organization of the Verb for Practical Purposes 117 The Four Conjugations | 121 |
The Principal Parts | 122 |
Exercise | 123 |
Future Future Perfect | 44 |
or the Ablative | 45 |
Lesson VII | 46 |
Word List | 47 |
Word List | 48 |
Lesson VIII | 49 |
Participles of the Present | 51 |
Subjunctive | 52 |
52a Prayer of Saint Odilo of Cluny | 53 |
Lesson IX | 54 |
The Secret of Formative Endings | 55 |
Sentences | 57 |
O Roma nobilis | 58 |
Lesson X | 59 |
Sentences | 60 |
Prepositions with the Ablative | 61 |
59a Saint Augustine on Fortuna | 62 |
Lesson XI | 63 |
The Fourth Conjugation | 65 |
Formation of the Future Tense in the Third and Fourth Conjugation | 66 |
Exercise | 67 |
Lesson XII | 68 |
Word List | 71 |
Exercise | 72 |
Lesson XIII | 73 |
Logical List of Moods | 74 |
Exercise | 75 |
Sentences | 76 |
Lesson XIV | 77 |
Its Forms | 78 |
The Fourth and Fifth Declensions | 79 |
Part Three Reading Latin Lesson XV | 80 |
Paris 1053 | 81 |
Legend of St Francis | 82 |
Two Vocabularies | 84 |
86a Varia Franciscana | 85 |
Lesson XVI | 86 |
Interrogative Adverbs and Adjectives | 88 |
90a On the Verb Credere | 89 |
Lesson XVII | 90 |
List of Numbers | 91 |
Readings | 92 |
Triumphs of Augustus | 94 |
Vocabulary | 95 |
Lesson XVIII | 96 |
Formation of these Pronouns Corresponding Adverbs | 98 |
List of Pronouns | 99 |
Compound Pronouns | 100 |
Personal Pronouns | 101 |
The Trinity | 105 |
104a De Iustitia et Iure secundum Iustinianum | 106 |
The Two Verbal Stems 105 Introduction | 107 |
The Subjunctive | 108 |
Perfect and Present | 109 |
Formation of the Perfect Stem | 110 |
Lesson XXII | 124 |
Lesson XXIII | 129 |
Conditional Sentences | 131 |
Impersonal Verbs | 132 |
Verbal Prefixes Verbs with Dative | 133 |
Verbs frequently compounded with Prefixes | 134 |
How to express perfect equality | 135 |
O Quanta Qualia | 136 |
Lesson XXIV | 137 |
Ways of expressing negation | 138 |
Lesson XXV | 143 |
Word Charades | 145 |
139a Special Verbs with the Dative Case | 146 |
Pronunciation I Sounds 140 General Remarks | 147 |
The Latin Vowel System | 148 |
Latin Consonants | 149 |
The Grammarian Scaurus on K Q C | 151 |
Syllabification of Latin Words | 152 |
Pronunciation II Accent in Prose and Verse 146 The Lineage of Intonation | 153 |
The Accentuation of Latin Prose | 155 |
Exercise | 157 |
The Accentuation of Latin Verse | 158 |
Exercises | 161 |
Virgil in Shakespeare | 162 |
Quintus Ennius and Johannes Secundus | 163 |
From Johannes Secundus to the Lydia | 165 |
Evolution of Language 155 Introduction From Plain Chant to Broadcast | 168 |
The Special Difficulties of Broad casting Writing and Speaking | 171 |
Some Remarks on Etymology | 178 |
160 | 187 |
Clemens Scotus on | 200 |
3 | 208 |
Writ of Summons for Two Knights | 228 |
Henricus de Bracton ca 12161268 | 229 |
Excerpta ex Dialogo de Scaccario AD 1177 | 230 |
Res Gestae Divi Augusti Monumentum Ancyranum | 233 |
John Calvin 15091564 | 248 |
Theophrastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus 14931541 | 251 |
John Locke Latin Letters 16321704 | 252 |
To Philippe de Limborch | 256 |
On the Glorious Revolution 1689 | 257 |
Disappointment over a Bad Latin Translation of His Essay on Human Understanding 1691 | 259 |
On the same subject 1695 | 261 |
The Book of Job Chapter I | 262 |
Dante 12651321 | 264 |
On Language | 265 |
Cassiodorus 477570 | 266 |
Francis Bacon 15611626 | 267 |
St Thomas a Becket 11181170 | 269 |
To King Henry | 270 |
Of King Henry On Amnesty | 271 |
Ben Jonson 15731637 | 272 |
Gabriele dAnnunzio Inscription in the Garden of his Villa | 273 |
Augustinus Cantiones ex libris Con fessionum cf Sect 149 | 275 |
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