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10

INTRODUCTION.

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11

INTRODUCTION.

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amuse

public

and

daily springing

mushrooms,

be

contem-

12

INTRODUCTION'.

Tiie

styleof

new

ecclesiastical architecture, entitled

Cockney-Gothic,

the

remark

this

called

have

would

the

them

is

off upon

played

Yankees,

French,

diyertingto
also

may

brought

position.Tragedies
premium
into

institutions

escaped

goats

of

for the

mention

is sufficient

wherever

short, look
matter

The

of

is

out

the

truth

find it much

of

of itself
you

to

very
Drama

of

of

excite

will, you

various
have

the

more

fashion

are

will

tired of

agreeable to laugh.
;

the

ridiculous

totallers,
Tee-

smile.

In

find

to keep
greatest difficulty
your

is, that people

not

To

taste.

pressed

the

men,

our

at

are

are

of morals

respectable body

that

somewhat

; farces

prevailing

of

Russians,

proof

in

of

stantly
con-

are

the

Even

the

all

seem

monkeys,

Momus.

of

the

of

discount

and

bear
vote

that

must

state

advancement

the influence

by

John,

its

course

though

forward
at

are

lions,nay

service

the

Bull

The

of

The

tricks

others,

on.

Bacon

day

certain

the

aforesaid

lookers
be

on

John

and

the

impertinent to

the

facetiousness.

of

capitaljoke ;

Lord

of

Fine

the

instance"

of

approbation, latelypassed
policy,

what

is

occurrences

stamp

of

Temple

glaring

"

The

correctness.

of

comic

illustration

good

Trafalgar Square,

in

Arts,

affords

the

but

of mirthfulness.

emotions

considerable

plated without

it

tenance.
coun-

crying,and

The

sublime

is in vogue.

13

INTRODUCTION.

turn-up
a

is

nose

of

collar ;

turn-down

the

now

flowing locks

by

they

of

our

walking

and

the

Nothing

of
be

can

nothing is

now

should

expected

to

learn

few
been

done)

Avhat

they

unreasonable.

is

as

disposed

are

to

ponder attentivelyon
let

them,

and

that

in the

what

that

language

together,"and

the beneficial
Grammar

senior

they

effect, which

to ridicule

of

of

youth.
readers.

So

is

much
now,
B

the

"

farce,
once

up

such

work,

our

said

holding

no

highest

let all

will at

for the

be

can

perusing the

have

likely to

And

eccentric

laugh at will,
in

the

That

language

they

cannot

we

the

train.

funny.

the title of

at

his

some

conclude

stare

of

for

Latin

appear

To

palatable,and

minds, especiallyon
reflecting

degree

our

in

not

he

secretaries

(althoughby

foregoing considerations,

minds

is

been

; but

true

"

everything, follow

in the

has

has

associations

instructed

this

bered
remem-

It

presidents,and

what

be

it be

Merry- Andrew

palatablebut

by

to all

the

taught that

will be denied
persons

with

institutions, and

advancement

indicative

face.

is abroad

arm

members,

mechanics'

boys

and

arm

that

general quiteunaccompanied

said that the schoolmaster

is

urged

are

length, let

corresponding qualityof

be

men

young

their

in

are

if it should

and

sentimentalityby
that

interestingobjectthan

more

above

put this

"

perceive
the

produce

Latin
in

satisfaction

longer to

the

of

detain

14

our

INTRODUCTION.

juvenile

pleasure,
with

or

friends,
both

respect

THE

let

we

"

to

us

will

proceed
not

terms.

Sl'HOOLMASTER

ABHOAD.

to

stand

business,
upon

or

mony
cere-

THE

COMIC

Of

Latin

there

good

Latin

Latin

Proper,

employed

at

Cambridge,

much
and

Aberdeen,

unlearned,

the
tuus

ego

tuo

ex

modo

mind
there

be

goods

ter

taken
and

die

with

go

times

three

chattels
"

your

eye

your
let

are

"

day;

examples.
b2

burgh,
Edin-

includes

these,

Greek.

vadis

how's

and

at

though

Illic

"

capiendus

occasionally

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appear

eye

tua?

mater

est

Latin

first

Oxford

Glasgow.

Law

your
you

"

is

frequently

generally

"

haustus
to

and

Latin,

Medical

Latin

their

of

more

which

Dog

compose

Universities

the

but

language

which

and

or

Latin.

Romans.

boys

themes,

and

verses

Proper,

Thieves'

is the

ancient

which

in

Latin

and

Latin,

the

by

kinds

Latin

good

or

Latin

the

is

three

are

Dog

spoken

was

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

to

Mens
oculo

cum

out

mother]

QuoFiat

draught

be

Bona

catalla

et

made,
"

16

THE

Thieves'

COMIC

LATIN

Latin,

of

slang, is

class

of

conveyancers,

of
constitutes
most

and

in

men

lawyers' clerks
close

indeed, it is sometimes
to

prig

start

mopuses,

stumpy

victuals.

subject.
of the

To

"

law, "c.

HEAVY

of

plant

A
an

"

which,

Examples

Sold

"

rum

tion.
imposi-

deceived.

"

Quibus,

tin, dibs.

SWELL.

Grub,

money.

stiff-'un"
be

with

handkerchief.

undone.

it

It bears

Latin,

great dandy.

"

tinctions
dis-

discourse

students.

occurrence.

"

swell

the

times, particularly

Law

steal

Flummoxed

heavy

familiar

the

confounded.

to

"

curious

"

wipe

certain

Furthermore,

tuum.

modern

affinityto

disregard

medical

and

the

by

among

use

who

great part of

young

very

in

much

meum

known

commonly

more

name

GRAMMAR.

scragged"

dead

prog,

body"

to suffer the

tuck

"

properly,
last

penalty

THE

All

these
Latin

If

Toby,
his

Latin

the learned

the

by taking away

the

this
The

and

taught in

the

Latin

has

had

desired

to

the

is

said

English alphabet.
to

have

actually

letters,therefore, remind

that

fashionable

attained

to,
"

it

done

PIG.

from
he

have

would

he

LEARNED

been

lady

being

ever

between

us

of

fesses
con-

twenty

thirty.

Six

of

these

letters

speaking English,
a,

pig,

THE

is what

greatest age
she

be

Grammar.

TOBr,

done.

to

are

alphabet in Latin,

Indeed,

17

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

of

kinds

Comic

say

COMIC

e,

1,

o,

u,

called

are

call

fowls

y.
B

"

what

vowels;

Dutchmen,

namely,

18

is

vowel

such

(except

with

post office.

General

double

it makes

consonant

not
can-

than

more

any

horn

Munchausen's)

can

performer.
into

liquids and

mutes,

the

funerals, hydrostatics,or
The

letters, j,

liquids
z

x,

1,

are,

the

in

nothing

have

they

although

do

particular to

Baron

as

divided

are

letters;

double

vowel,

one

an

Consonants

the

harp

of itself.

sound

without

tune

.^Eolian

an

without

sound

play

like

perfect

full and

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

other

m,

r;

n,

letters

are

mutes.

dum,

Hye

"

syllable is

letters

closed
are

fist
"

au,

eu,

au

and

eu,

of

the

fact may

to

Taken
i.

e.

sound

vowels

oi

or

we

more

in the

say

Of

oe.

be

se

by

known

and

by

first of

the
a

the

ei, which
ce,

these,
that

between

upon

memory,

one

diphthongs

is formed.

each

like manner,

i, and

two

impressed

artificial

In

the

in

resemble

The

is intermediate

beverage,

pronounced

vowels

two

Jives.

of which

perhaps

half-and-half.

of

sound

bunch

ei, se, and

familiar

as

or,

one

collectively they

principlesof
a

Stekne.

"

of

sound

breath,

is the

the

two

in

c."

"

jiffey.

diphthong

syllable.

the

dumb

distinct

pronounced

classics, in

fiddle

dye dutn,

sounded

This

mind,

on

reference
of

name

is

rally
gene-

like

e.

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be

may
to

COMIC

said

to

married

female

exhibit

couple.

Brown

LATIN

The

reason,
stars

seven

reason

DIPHTHONG.

the

fool in

more

than

they

but

(like

cannot

give

we

They

are

as

1.

Noun,

2.

Adverb,

"

decline

better

than

more

"

because

only.

King Lear,
seven

the

Smith

is

"

This

the

why

pretty

is

fool's

commentators)
Parts

they

of

Speech

not

are

nine.

Pronoun,

Verb,

Participle
"

declined.

Preposition, Conjunction, Interjection

undeclined.
them

why

one,

Brown

other

many

analogy

an

diphthong,

eight.

not

are

eight

follow

human

is called

because
;

no

The

HUMAN

no

are

"

reason

are

says

like

something

male,

19

GRAMMAR.

Most

altogether.

schoolboys

would

like

to

20

THE

OF

or

name,
a

is

noun

pancake,
Nouns

are

cus,

the

"

are

go

"

as

alone.

aper,

great boar

puer,

lean

MAIER

boy.

IICR.

infant

noun.

and

tives.
adjec-

and

tailor

woman

other

any
;

medi-

; venenuin,

in

leadingstrings
"

always requires to

which

it shows
a

making

fat

love

the

lesson

long

pinguis puer,
In

from

sartor,
old

an

longa,
;

is

"

trumpeter,

own

assistance

an

It

lectio

prince,a pig,

of substantives.

like

substantive, of

quality

is

is its

examples

adjectiveis

Christian

into substantives

divided

physician ; vetula,

of

name

Whatever

post.

brassica, a cabbage

"

it cannot
to

it be

"

for itself without

posion ;
An

whether

name,

sur-name
or

NOUN,

substantive

noun

speaks
word

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

PIER.

joined

nature

or

; magnus

boy

(as you

PINUHS

be

; macer

will

find

THE

of these

one

COMIC

choice

of

or

in

depend

in

days)

will

success

LATIN

abusing

lots

going

The

numbers

only

; the

The
brick

nix,

bricks

blazes;

in

very

say

in

in

the

dictionary ;

the

and

blaze

bean
;

schools,

make

here

nouns

singular

the

and

enumerate,
of

that

"

are

we

of

spoken

not

them.

learn

you

to

precious

but

is

are

two

plural.
of

but

tuba,

one

later,

as

"

(or trumpet)

trump

a}thiops, a nigger (or negro)

; cor-

crow.

plural speaks
;

fabae,

beans

of
;

it may

that

be
very

tubse,

singular

singular

numbers.

are

one

cornices,
the

as

"

trumps

that

remarked

prize-poems

than

more

aethiopes,niggers

were

Also

we

to

The

Here

as

faba,

flamma,

your

heading.

above

it is true,

nouns,

singular speaks
;

the

at

of

nouns

now

boys,

numbers
or,

of

sight"

in

degree

NOUNS.

OP

alarmed,

are

say,

your

adjectives.

not

There

cab-man,

small

no

NUMBERS

Be

21

GRAMMAR.

lateres,
flammse,

crows.

sophers
cynic philo-

fellows.
sometimes

composed

22

THE

COMIC

CASES

have

Nouns
six

of

oal_ybe
thus

nominative

horse

the

the

police

before
who

jurgatur,the
The

breeches

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of the

master,

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and

dative

what

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the

the

to

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of

the

magister

the

sign of,

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whereof;
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by

the

hold

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signs to
or

out

my

called

upon

to

agreeable to

have

or

to

for,
for

or

hands

my

out

"

as

breeches.

question,to whom,
do

and

the breeches

magistri

magistro

manus

verb,

lieutenant

"

jaws

by

is known

whom

To

as,

is known

the master's

case

to

answers

It

Who

; as,

? Femoralia
or

sative,
accu-

superintendant

question, whose,

the

are

jaws.

master

to

the

the

the

cart,

and

what

genitive case

answers

before

inspector.

or

can

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genitive, dative,

the

ancient,"

question,

other) but

time.

comes

before

the

at

(that is,

ablative.
case

does

before

them

nominative,

"

number,

of the

dozen

of

one

each

in
a

vocative, and
The

NOUNS.

cases

half

in

put

ticketed

OP

six

and

one

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

hands

?
to

master.

In

this

whether
ferula

place

it be
at

o\xx

more

are

are

consider,

Latin

or

the

fingers' ends.
that

Observe

we

very

dative
often

in

masters
School-

giving.

means

the

dative

case

"

but

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generosity

what

is termed

is

chiefly

accusative

The
follows
of

debtor,

applause

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back)

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Whom

as.

magistrum

vocative

The
to ;

magister

as,

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out,

making

ablative

The

expressed
magistro

caught

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before

degree,
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in

arbore

the

and

fix.

from
"

lubricior

slicker
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at

an

than

the

or

his

master.

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speak-

exclamation

shirking

quantities,

perous
obstre-

tions,
preposi-

certain
as

Deprensus
Coram

the

after

ablative

the

tree.

(behind

of

master.

rostro

comparative
In

case.

with

indigena

Cum

by

than,

word,
of

Whom

prepositions, in, with, from,

The

signs

are

at

Italian

the

"c.

the

by

out

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by,

at

understood;

or

heak.

the

round

or

known

is

case

consequence

school,

in

conduct

or

by calling,or

concords

false

butcher,

master

the

frequently

which

"

bailiff

laugh

"

is known

case

laugh

you

pence.
half-

as

question

the

to

answers

than

verb,

squall

supernatural

It

Opera.

not

spats,

more

ear,

the

bull-dog

is, if

impositions,

and

follows

case

bestowing

that

the

on

canings, birchings,

more

in

exercised

allowance

boxes

more

23

GRAMMAR.

monkey's

kicks,

more

LATIN

COMIC

THE

angustia

native.

Ab

"

rictu

grease.

"

by

grin.

Adipe

24

THE

LATIN

COMIC

AND

GENDERS

The

genders

of

ARTICLES.

which

nouns,

masculine, the feminine, and

in

Latin

by

English,

articles.

but

they

are

and breeches,
petticoats

But

as

there
and

We

are

many

feminine,

denoted

are

articles, also, in

have

masculine

articles
mantillas

of

dress

and

are

from
;

the

such

as

mackintoshes.

things in Latin,
which

three, the

are

the neuter,

distinguishthe

which

feminine,

GRAMMAR.

called

nevertheless

culine
mas-

not

female, the articles

and

male

We

will

initiate

them

into

of

time, Avhich

of

think

et

the

opportunity

thing

one

the

dead

propose

knock

cost

INTeut.

school

we

can

scientific

course,

the

sciousness
con-

cajtera.

singular's hie, haec,

hoc,
and

"c.

hoc,
"

full many

boys

dative

genitive's hujus, the

fact Mr.

Squeers

The

vocative

The

ablative
is

caret
"

"

fowl

"

but

huic,
to

Smike);

hoc, the accusative

makes.

very

no

great shakes
and

hoc, hac,

maketh

case

makes

mentioned

never

and

hunc, banc,

cock

if

by

et

dry

mere

shall, of

caetera,

haec.

Fern.

learn, has

to

et

vehicle

the

And

we

fowl
c

's not

languages

originalremark,

caetera,

nominative

Which

than

at

general

We

ages.

aphorism,

the

short-sighted

rewarded
sufficiently

hie.

Masc.

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but

subject.
an

moral

ourselves
"

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this

doubt, from

more

immediate

the

principle,or

The

declining

and

the monkish

occasionallyinculcate

The

old

boy only

imparting something

facts

are

permission,

declensions, conjugations,"c.,

make

for

the

everything

prevailed in

which

take

we

originated,no

of

ignorance

to

And

teaching

of

mode

protesting against

system

them

to

readers'

our

new

hie, haec, hoc.

article
of

with

now,

attached

parts of speech.

parts of dress, but

not

25

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

hoc,

cock.

26

THE

The

nominative

The

Roman

The

The

in all the

accusative

vocative

The

here

found

Milo

As

had

Furies

The

it is not

we

used

in the

pigeons

Jews

foreigners in
is

in

one

at

of

sense

is

the

soldier, which
readers,
the

who

ancient

fur,

will
do

amazons

may

appear

the

medicine,

everywhere

ducks

be

Stock

the

at

"

Royal ditto, and

No

common

feminine

reasons,

thief; likewise
strange

dashing

to

the

with

both

of this

noun

uncoinmon.

declined

call to mind

not

in

it is

hsec, is, for obvious

is

called

are

in which

therefore

hie, and

so

is.

that

and

and

faces.

masculine

Parens,

class;

know

case

humbug

"

parent, which

go,

as

Square!

word

no

articles,

ditto, and

is both

common

lame

Leicester
that

one

's

sense

and

the

requires explanation

same

Crockford's,

at

Exchange,

noun

two

common

law,

miss

ablative

the

quackery

the

his,

oak-tree, you

an

in all grammars,

"

with

word

in

knavery

is

crammers

caret

"

jorum

horum,

Antony

disagreeable

most

that

say,

Mark

dative

This

common.

genders

also

declined

Nouns

three

rending

his, like the

And

of

fond

laGrecque

and

harum,

American

some

hsec,

dressed

hos, has, andhaec

's

told

and

were

tip did

his

Actium

GRAMMAR.

were

horum,

Bacchus

and

Herodotus

"

ladies

young

dative

The

LATIN

plural is hi, hae,

genitive case

Silenus

At

COMIC

miles,

those

of

existence

white

our

of

sergeant

COMIC

THE

being

the

times.

only

of

"instance
heroine

female

have

Nor

LATIN

soldier

commemorated

narrative

modern

authenticated

except

we

in the somewhat

the

apocryphal

Billy Taylor.

"

Nouns

are

the

article

the

showman

doubtful

called

hie

or

haec

Duke

of

Wellington
a

At

all

are

those which,

snake,
is

he

events

with

please, as

you

Anguis,

Bonaparte.
noun.

declined

Avhen

whichever

"

of the

said

Napoleon
doubtful

in

one

sailor, if

female

known

than

more

we

27

GRAMMAR.

and
is

doubtful

customer.

Epicene
with

article

one

passer,

nouns

only, represent

sparrow,

hcEC

aquila,an
c

though

both

sexes,

eagle,
"

declined
as

cock

hie
and

28

THE

hen.

eagle,

must
to

After

is

where

known

genitive

quite

by

about

otherwise

would
refer

the

Latin

student

rod.

"

Tergum,

"

ei.

here

the

"

of

fear

he

may

but

as

the

the

love

our

that clever

little

saying

of

learning
therefore

We

do.

of

manner

the

Puer,

boy.

book, the Eton

him

have, Risus,

effigy,image,

or

of

way

Stultus,
fox.

client.

laugh
Guy.

fool.
curator,
Pro-

Fourth,

"

at.

an

Virga,

ae.

to

there

examples

Third, is, Vulpes,

Cliens,

the

comic

from

us

of

of

ending

outraging

to

us

As

declensions

are

prevents

them

attorney.

Effigies,an

in

substantives.

declension, Genitivo
i.

back

you

observed

strongly recommending

Second,

an

us

to

First

down.

language

thing

following substantives, by

the

exercise, after
set

of

tail, so

induce

Grammar,

decline

his

humanity,

much

so

to

SUBSTANTIVE.

NOUNS

Our

case.

that

as

distinguished by

feelings nf

regard

Latin

call every

declensions

five

substantives

an

she.

OF

are

in the

rule

no

they

that

and

is

with

noun

comprehensive

so

DECLENSION

pig

of

nothing

say

cockney sportsman.

gender

There

to

doubtful

all, there

tom-cat,

GRAMMAR,

however,

appear

Hampshire,

LATIN

sparrow,

gender,

about

COMIC

"

Fifth,

THE

The

LATIN

substantive

in the

29

GRAMMAR.

face, facies,makes

faces, facies,

plural.

Although
the whole

which

we

declensions,

for

"

the

of

use

all substantives

somewhat

schools,"

that heretofore

declined

be

may

going through

cannot

we

agreeable, if

more

from

precluded

are

of the

proposing

than

COMIC

not

more

refrain

from

model

upon

in

mode

instructive,

adopted.
Gratia.

Exempli
Musa
The

muS(",

Gods

at

were

Musae

tea,

musam.

Eating raspberry jam,

Musa
Made

musa,

by Cupid's
Musee

Thou

"

musarw/n,

Diva

Musis
Said

Jove

Dearum."
musa,?,
to

Musffi
Can

Some

OF

terminations

beat

"

as

lass,

this ?

NOUNS

adjective

nouns

his

musw.

ambrosia

DECLENSIONS

mamma,

are

ADJECTIVE.

declined

of three

pacha
c

with

tails would

three

be, if

30

THE

he

were

as

bonus, good

how

leg

to make

GRAMMAR.

proposal

to

English

an

tender.

tener,

"

forciblythey
of

LATIN

COMIC

remind

Love

young

mutton.

Bonus,

bona,

Boni,

dumb,

bonse, boni.

those

For

Bono,

pity on

Bonum,
Thou

bonam,

Bone,

bona,

bonum,

Bono,

thou

art

mum.

bonum,

and

come

The

sigh.

woe,

my

speak'st though

chops

sweet

bonae, bono^

Have

"

bonum,

little lambkin

Thou

eat

come,"

me,

bonae, bono.

butcher

lays

the

low,

Boni, bonae, bona.

Those

chops

Bonorum,
To

are

picture,

"

bonarum,

bonorum,

put lots of Tomata

Bonis

ah

o'er

sauce

'em

Don't, miss,

"

Bonos, bonas, bona.

Thou

art

Boni,
And

manner

than

thy

mamma,

bonse, bona.
fatter than

Bonis,
In like

sweeter

"

What
decline

thy

papa.

bliss !

tener^ tenera,

"

epithets!

Sweet

of

us

heiress

tenerum.

and

THE

Unus,

one

nullus, none

LATIN

the

totus,

alter, the other

the

31

GRAMMAR.

solus, alone

make

two"

COMIC

uter, whether

singularin

genitivecase

whole

of the

ius and

the

in i.

dative

RIDDLES.

Q. In what

will

case

A.

In the

grain

of

name

of

for the

adjectivestand

an

dative

of

case

TJni nimirum

tibi recte

unus

is the

A.

Because

The

word

erunt

semper

it is

The

difference

peg-top, consists
N.B.
"

You're

Tu

es

of the

"

Tu

lib. ii. 2. 106.

nature

is

declined

like

that it makes

the

aliud,

from

alius, say the London

of

humming-top

from

'um,

ahus,

unus

another,"

by

unus

like that

commentators,

Sat.

res.

singular.

neuter

of

wm'-verse.

an

adjectives,except

Silium, in the

animal

like all

verse

alius, another,

above-named
not

above

an

uni-corn.

"

Hor.

Q. Why

barley joined to

is

phrase

quoque."

not
more

good

Latin

for

pressed
elegantly ex-

32

THE

There

COMIC

are

LATIN

GRAMMAR.

lawyer's clerks, and, by courtesy,

These

apprentices.

being

third

of

with

the

declension

us

of

linen-drapers'
articled

termed

be

may

declined

hoc, after the

remind

adjectivesthat

some

articles

tives
adjec-

hie, haec,

of substantives

"

as

tristis,sad, melior, better, felix,happy.

It is not
sadness

very

and

Amator,

to conceive

easy

comicality are
sad

affords

no

Decline

is

not

room

these

united, except Tristis

AMATOR.

better for comic

for

happy joke.

three

If the nominative
The

ablative

Felix

purposes.

adjectives,and

others

class, accordingto the followingrules

same

which

lover.

TRISTIS

Melior

thingin

any

endeth

in is

singularendeth

or

in

er,

of the

why, sir.

i, sir ;

THE

The

But

the

same

the

For

the

The

plural is

If than

or

is,er,

nominative

But

the

and

or,

Adjectives

are

odious

have

three

perhaps

The
or

first

The

Latin

of

degrees

comparison.

why they

greeable
disa-

so

are

third

is the

"

the

of

is

comparative,

lepidus, funny.

which

increases

by adding or
in i.

Thus

lepidor funnier, or
"

superlative, which

to
signification

the

positive,

thing absolutely.

Grammar

positiveending
is

is the

comparison

quality,formed

Grammar,

diminishes

itia.

"

quality

is the

second

of the

House

the

Eton

the

lessensthe

case

ADJECTIVES.

reason

of

degree

denotes

Thus,

genders

learn.

to

which

the

the three

divitia.

OF

Comparisons

enders,

more

many

icia and

Dives,

"

belong ;

singular us.

for ia hath

plural

song.

my

doth

to express

serves

mark

"

settle it thus

it hath

COMPARISONS

The

neuter

be.

must

case

we

the

ia

ends,

nominative

Felix, felicia

is

their

case,

plural in

aforesaid

neuter

The

This

fifth

ablative's

the

to

or

the

i, are

or

33

GRAMMAR.

e,

While

As

LATIN

first, fourth, and

make

E;

COMIC

to the first

the
more

Charter

funny.

increases

or

greatest degree.

34

THE

formed

COMIC

from

ssimus.

the

lipidissimus,funniest, or
is acutuS;,

sharper,

sharp,

is acutissimus

Yankee
'cutest

or

'cute,

most

the

in

Enumerate,

tarnation'

or

'cute

more

or

sharpest,

"

acutior,

Yorkshireman

"

'cuter

sharp,

more

or

'cute,

or

Londoner

funny.

most

is

Grammar

Latin

Comic

the

thereto,

adding

by

case

same

Thus

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

sharp,

most

or

but

"

cute.

with

following,

manner

substantives, the exceptions to this rule, mentioned

in the

Bonus,
A

Grammar.

Eton

plain pudding.
Malus,
A

bad.

caning.

pudding.

suet

Pessimus,

Adjectives ending

of

of

verjuice acrior,

more

flogging.

vinegar
sour

tee-totaller,acerrimus,

superlative in

the

form

in er,

taste

The

worst.

"c.

"c.

errimus.

plum pudding.

Pejor, worse.
spatting.

best.

Optimus,

Melior, better.

good,

is acer,
the

sourest,

sour

visage

most

or

that
of

sour.

Agilis, docilis, gracilis,facilis,humilis, similis,

change

is into

llimus,

Agilis, nimble.

Taglioni.
Jim

nimble.

most

Crow.
Mr.

Wieland.

"

"

Learned

docile.

more

Docillimus,

superlativedegree.

"

Docilis, docile.
Docilior,

Madlle.

nimble.

Agilior,more
Agillimus,

"

in the

"

most

docile.

Pig.
Ourang-outang.
Man

Friday.

THE

COMIC

LATIN

Gracilis, slender.
Gracilior,

whipping post.

"

slender,

more

Gracillimus,

"c.

If

vowel

of

case

adjective,

an

magis,

and

more,

Dr.

Magis pius,
Maxime

This

Sancho's

on

the

leg.

nominative
is made

comparison

by

most,

Mr.

"

pious.
"

called

Maw-worm.

Mr.

Stiggins.

DonQuixote,Quixottissimus.

good Latin,

not

was

the

in

us

pious.

more

Panza

dustman's

Cantvvell.

pius, most

Sancho

waist.

"c.

maxime,

Pius, pious

"

before

comes

fashionable

"

slender.

most

35

GRAMMAR.

part, of the

but

it evinced

nature

knowledge

of the

superlative

(as

once

degree.

A
a

lady

for

is

pronoun

of

the

PRONOUN.

OP

substitute,

or

we

family say),

Malaprop

noun.

There

are

fifteen Pronouns.

Ego,

ille,

tu,

I, thou,

and

Billy,

Is, sui, ipse,

Got

very

Iste, hie,
The

tipsy.
mens,

governor

did

not

see

us.

heard

subierjuge

36

THE

COMIC

LATIN

Tuus,
We

these

To

cujas, of

down

knock'd

noster,

monger

for

be

what

the

two

or

regard

constrained

We

are

deal

of valuable

the

Dublin

the

play

Pronouns

us.

myself

tute,

what,

or

and

we

name

be

may

then

omit
the

"

thus

agreeably

mei,

mihi.

Hoist

the

frog up

Chancery

they

fib ye.

Ille, ilia, illud.

Cows

chew

the

cud.

hint
their

afford

give.

to

out

that

declined

good

induced

Hamlet

of the

sky-high.

tui, tibi,

Tu,

we

learning

part of

length

that

though

to leave
reason

the

Ego,

In

here

can

for the

to

of

mode

and

now

much,

so

them

the

matter,

that

PRONOUNS.

over

to

manager

of

qui, who

ourselves

is all that

declension

pester

egomet,

OP

concern

Avith

to

country.

altogether pass

cannot

vestras.

same,

DECLENSION

Pronouns

coster-

daring

added,

thyself,idem

thou

noster,

suus,

Vester,

may

GRAMMAR.

in

ance.
perform-

COMIC

THE

Is,

id,

ea,

do

Always
Qui,
Or

Every
the

one

else

other

quod.

you'll taste
is,

decline

can

day

bid.

you're

as

quae,

donkey

37

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

the

rod.

ea,

id.

Hampstead

on

heard

We

Heath,

repeat

beware

of any

distinctly
E

THE

When

to

pig-tail instead
quid

in your

FIRST

decline

you

temptation

"

mouth,

IN

quis

quae

in

but

quid,

dirty

chewing

"

LATIN.

LESSON

indulge
of

"

it.

quid

habits.
Never

pro

quo.

Eschew

have

any

38

COMIC

THE

LATIN

OF

Suspendatur

VERB.

chief

is the

verb

GRAMMAR.

in every

word

collum, let him

per

sentence,

be

hanged by

of

as

the

neck.
the action

It expresses
sum

sapiens,

thou

art

fool.

have

Verbs

stuhus,

es

amice, pernoctas,

you

Ferguson.

voices, like the gentleman who

two

since,

time

short

singing,a

was

Mr.

thing. Ego

Tu

man.

hie

Non

lodge here,

don't

wise

am

being

or

the

at

St. James's

Theatre.
active

The

passive ending

In

these

ending

pot-boy,
to

from
able

be

They

say

being,
to

the

everything
"

from

terrestrial

amor

the

peer

verbs

ending

is called

the

Except,

economists
political

diffusion

unlimited

to

so.

school, Avho, albeit they

the

How

dairy-maid, would

modern

to

verb

the

Amo

loved.

am

certain

for

amor,

conjugate immediately.

Malthusian

Of

as

excepted.

the duchess
to

"

would

however,

opposed

or

I love.

amo,

is contained

human

every

as

"

In short, love beats

"

cock-fightingnot
happy

in

words

two

bonum

summum

be

in

The

of

of the

cates
great advo-

are

learning, are

violently

conjugations.
in

some

transitive

are

when

actives
the

transitive.

action

passes

THE

to the

on

cut

COMIC

called

be

may

his stick

of

Persians
his

Actium.

at

at

verbs

as

But

ran.

would

be

cucurrit

the

caput

My

pax,

him)

Hector
the

at

siege

Pharsalia, and

is

called

does

not

so

did

cut

his

wished

be

mantel-piece. This,

him
a

sed

contra

currere

through,
active,

verb

species,

Gulielmus

homo

te

homo

full but

his head

ran

voluit

run

Mens

plenum

suum

cucurrit,

of the canine

Latin

would

so

Pistol

obvious, will

it is

or

require

or

on,

pass

verb,

neuter

intransitive,

run.

to

and

neuters

Falstaff

"

William

man

named

are

say,

therefore

Dog- Latin;

or

Even

at

curro,

to

making

would

and

after

recorded

are

their stick at Marathon.

in

the action

when

per,"" Falstaff

eum

section,

cutting,

cut

verb

followingnoun,

Pistol

of

Napoleon Bonaparte

ending

intransitives,

meum,

Waterloo.

Other

neuter,

stick

kind

modern.

and

(with Achilles

cut

Antony
stick

baculuni

this

comic

ancient

The

Troy.

Pompey

of

examples

history,both

cut

Seco

as

stick.

Numerous

in

39

GRAMMAR.

followingnoun,

my

which

LATIN

die

against
not

do

after Cicero.
transitive

Verbs

changing
cut

was

into

his friend

by

Antony
"

very

the most

or,

ending
as

in

Secor, I

Brutus

in the

become
cut.

am

Csesar

was

capitol. This,"
"

judiciouslyoliserved
unkindestcw^of

passive by

the

on

all," much
"

as

hustings,
worse,

40

THE

than

indeed,
are

daily performed in Regent

BRUTUS

Verbs

passive.
cannot

may

ancient
to have

when

way

they

never

made

crack, but

we

cracked.
from

appear,
a

are

Crepo,

am

heroes

got into

tremendously

C^SAR.

4ND

say,

Crepor,

say,

The
says,

We

Street.

intransitive

and

neuter

operationswhich

similar

the

of

any

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

of

Homer

cracking away
going

were

what

to

most

engage

in

single combat.
Orestes
Some

certainlycracked.

was

verbs
"

as

ending

Loquor,

in

or

have

speak.

an

active

fication
signi-

THE

Q, Why

COMIC

such

are

A.

Because

Of

these

LATIN

called

are

few

some

like witnesses

verbs

they

41

GRAMMAR.

Deponents."

"

neuters,

are

oath 1

on

Glorior,

as

boast.

Caesar

boasted

that

Bald-headed
in

he

conquests

Neuter

ending

declined

are

like

curious

are

of old

group

verb

verb

small

have

each

called

are

verbs
mixed
it

maids, because

Ego irrideo, I quiz.

is like
children

to learn
to do

Greek

Tu

collection

it has

not

of tombstone

different

in
of

and

Latin, nevertheless

so.

OF

Moods

supineness.

taedat, it irketh, oportet, it behoveth.

as

it behoveth

gerunds

presentinga

resembles

young

as

impersonal

It irketh

thus

which

deponent,

with

but

activityand

and

not,

quizzest.

angels,or
persons,

verbs

;
;

personal

different
persons,

and

or,

active

verbs

maids

irrides, thou

came.
over-

easily.

so

passive

of

some

personal.

in

verbs

combination

There

has

verbs

supines like

and

and

saw,

people (likeCaesar) do

general,make
Verbs

came,

verbs
them

MOODS.

like

are

moods

in

man
,

they

peculiarexpressio7i. Here,
D

42

THE

the

however,
moods,

verbs

observe

in

bold,

but

the

merry

and

mood,

from

drunken

mood
which

latter, in
drunk

the

mood"

mood,

mood

the

idle

We

the

the

other

many
must

be

and

the

too

however

tedious
omit

magging

The

moods

1. The
or

asks

tu

are

talkative

indicative
a

Dost

love

are

the

mood, which

question, as
thou

mood,

Ego

amo,

municative
com-

the

moods

the

tory
moni-

or

or

mantic
ro-

or

melting mood,

to

mention.

the
the
and

flirtingmood,
giggling mood,

the

peculiarlyobservable
of verbs

the

mendacious,

compassionate,

the

which

and

besides

teazing or tantalizingmood,

mood,

sarcastic

working mood,

the

or

the

soberbling
grum-

imaginative, poetical,

moods

not

the
the

mood,

the

with

called

as

and

serious

mood,

organs

mood,

mood,

blended

the secretive

with

mood,
and

the

mood,

vindictive

sober
the

as

it may

phrenological

lying mood,

the

sympathetic mood,

mentorial

or

the

the

contented

the

mood,
of all the

or

case

placid mood,

both

mood,
the

added

sulky mood;

the

contradistinguished
the

be

may

we

sheepish mood,

the

mood,

whereto

the doleful

mood,
or

many

instance,

For

five.

has

Man

stops.

shy, timid,

the

mood,

angry

have

bumptious

or

GRAMMAR.

resemblance

men

(or dumps),

LATIN

COMIC

scandalizing

inthefair

sex.

following :
either
I do

affirms
love.

fact

Amas

The

long

in these

LATIN

COMIC

THE

The

LONG

This

mood
command

Come

being

hither

vacation.

boy

mihi

is also known

now

N.B.

Eja

let

in

This

the

rative
impe-

schools, the

Spare

me

the

Dulce

song

hue

! The

sign

the

and

master,

thus, Veni

as

"

of

or

rative
impe-

let

in

as

"

Domum

"

eamus."

nunc

us

the

by

in the

verse
"

Hurrah

character

part of

the

! Parce

well-known

"

of

commandeth,

exemplified

the

on

that

on

which

two-fold

is often

mood

the

contained

COlRTSMiP.

imperative mood,

entreateth.

entreaty

courtshipsare

examples.

two

2.

of all

short

and

43

GRAMMAR.

be

off'

meaning

"

mood

is

one

much

for the

in

the

44

mouth

beadles,

of

magistrates,
jeants,

and

very

fond

The

The

of

using

it

all occasions.

on

IMPERATIVE

MOOD.

potentialmood

signs by

which

love

have
4.

in

(when

loved
The

(ifI

signifiespower

it is known
or

not

known

subjunctive differs

ought

word,

other

going

verb

Cochleare

eram

in

and

before
cum

as,

"

from

the

some

amarem,

same

was

can,

Amem,
should

the like.

potentialonly
conjunction or

being subjoined

it in the

duty.

may,

better,)and

being always governed by

indefinite

are,

or

school).Amivissem,!

Heave
had

public schools,

of

prefects

might, would, could, should,

may

ser-

of all descriptions" monitors,

jacks-in-office

THE

3.

majors,

superintendents,

drivers,

slave

bashaws,

boatswains,

especially,and
are

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

to

sentence
a

spoon

some

"

as

when

THE

loved

LATIN

COMIC

Nescio

don't

know

sim

qualis

"

what

of

sort

45

GRAMMAR.

hoc

ipso tempore,
I

person

this very

at

am

time.
The

propriety of
will be

The

it has

We

have
to

or

perhaps

infinitive

because

the

to

which

young

because

it has

It is

example
Nubere,

it

side

Amare,
to

OF

of
attention

Poetry,

the
to

and

with

the

to

cessful
suc-

other,

it ;

one

nor,

than

encourage
as

general a
faculties,

As, for

to

be

fool

repent.

SUPINES.

the

expansion

cultivation
we

followingcombination

Music.

the

sign to.

Desipere,

Poenitere,

to

various
the

by

AND

by

ness,"
ugli-

their

before

case

business

love

GERUNDS

youthfulminds,

of

person.

known

anxious

Ever

or

one,

tioned
men-

pocket.

to

marry

no

picture

"

like

be

more

commonly
"

cab,

ther
exactly, whe-

generally call

nominative

it any
a

the

to

ladies

It may

with

gentleman's

picture of nobody"

"

or

rivals.

has

of Rhetoric,

System

minds

our

up

Tempest,

has

are,"
cochle-

"

hereafter.

is like

mood

in the

indeed,
toad

it

has

Comic

ma)"" appear

made

not

Neither

expression

number.

no

compare

both,

in

explained

which
5.

the above

beg

as

to

of

sible
posinvite

of Grammar,

46

^tV."

Believe

The

gerunds

instance, the

For

Amandum,

Amatu,

Amatum,

it be

Should

fuel

the

Which

OF

action,

an

1.

The

and

loving.
drunk,
2.

or

or

the

grief.
loved,

be

(?) lot.
removed

never

tenses,

or

times, expressing

or

drunk.

am

It expresses

loving.

Pass.

Inebrior,

"

action

love,
I

am

time

no

an

Act.

"

preterimperfect tense
of

is

There

time.

present.

am

state

care,

affirmation.

or

have

TENSES.

five

are

Amo,

The

taking place. Examples

now

um,

u.

doom'd,

'r

be

present tense,

(or tense) like

in

keep boilingthe pot.

to

there

brief

felicitous

needful

so

in

all your

love

to

your

serves

In verbs

be

drown

goblet to

reader, beware

love, if you

to

In the

May

loving,

in

Amando,

dum,

two

endeth

endeth

loving, kind

of

Amandi,

but

are

active, which

passive which

the

And

verbs

Moore.

charms."

young

di, do, and

in

end

of verbs

supines of

the

But

endearing

if all those

me

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

or

am

made

drunk.

am

denotes

things,partly, but

not

thing,
some-

entirely

THE

bam,

3.

latelydone,

but

I loved.

have

made

was

ended.

now

have

or

-Examp.

"

drunk.

The

preterpluperfecttense

at

time

some

past, but

I had

Amaveram,

thing

I have

have

loved,

been

refers

made

sum,

to

ended.

now

Inebriatus

loved.

hour

Inebriatus

drunk.

been

an

expresses

I loved.

Amavi,

drunk

drunk.

been

4.
done

made

was

Ama-

loving.

was

or

tense
preterperfect

The

drunk,

loving.

was

47

GRAMMAR.

love

did

Inebriabar, I

ago.

or

Examp.

past

LATIN

COMIC

thing

Examp.

"

I had

eram,

drunk.

been

future

The

5.

hereafter,

tense

Amabo,

as,

abor, I shall get drunk

to

I shall

or

Avill love

say

"

AND

NUMBERS

OF

have

Verbs

relates

be

done

Inebri-

to-morrow.

PERSONS.

numbers.

No.

it is usual

to pay

two

thing to

1, Singular, No.

2, Plural.
In most
to

matters

number

it is necessary
"

The

persons

of

to

disagreeable.

each

number.
"

are

Verbs

Thus,

tion
atten-

verbs,

regard equally number

verbs

very

academy

learning the

In

one.

exclusive

for

ever,
howtwo.

generally considered
have

three

instance,

at

persons
a

in

dancing

48

Ego salto,

I dance,

Tu

saltas,

Thou

Ille

saltat,

He

danceth.

Nos

saltamus,

We

dance,

Vos

saltatis,

Ye

Sing.

Plur.

Illi
At

Comic

or

Academy.

Thou

lUe

ridet,

He

Nos

ridemus,

"We

Vos

ridetis,

Ye

Illi

rident,

They laugh.

is very

too,

be

to

the

on

most

frequent about

does

the

song
"

say

Ridet

of

have

we

the time

Note

That

except

Ego,

laugh
all

Nos,

at

other

side of the

wrong

side of
of the

mies,
acade-

the

be

may

mouth),

is

holidays.What

prata rident

annus,

"

laugh,

rideamus."

laughs,
a

laugh,

laughter (which

right

Nosque
year

laugheth.

the

on

right sort

laughest,

common

generally occurs
The

The

laugh,

rides,

presumed

"

dance.

Tu

Laughter,

mouth.

dance,

Free-knowledge-ical principles

on

Ego rideo,

but

dancest.

They

saltant,

academy

an

"

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

nouns

Tu,

the

as

meadows

laugh,
"

pose
sup-

well."

are

and

of
Vos.

the

third

Hence

person
we

see

absurdly the

how

in

acted

the

been

have

with

drew

make

and

it is

ye,

can

also.

of

the

partake

That

all

second

asine, O

say,

to

donkeys,

Nos,
that

we,

animal,

Tu, thou, nor

of

nouns

So

donkey
have

should

we

ass"

Vos,

of his nature.

person.

thou

in tlie
an

and

with

that neither

hoped

said

be

Note
are

be

to

down

I,

common

perhaps,

person

himself

call

to

us

may,

third

Ego,

certainlynothing in

have

upon
"

correctness.

some

couple of donke} s

Ille,he,

"

written

"

prevail

to

Three"

qualified to

and

group,

our

We

"

49

GRAMMAR.

who

man

endeavouring

picture

have

LATIN

COMIC

THE

the

vocative
if

that
;

or

case

should

we

asini, O
least

at

grammar

ye
on

side.
it your

Be

care

to

prevent

from

us

having justice

also.

Of
Before
to

learn

the

remarks

few

In the

verbs

first

Esse,
on

rather

one

expects that

detail,he is very
But

our

the verbs,

in

verbs

much

skipping
is

no

reason

we

make

to

general.

have

are

we

before

be, it is necessary

that

observe,

to

in the

difficult;and

are

And

be.

to

to

place we

be.

to

declined, It is necessary

are

Esse,

verb

the verb

teach
a

other

Esse,

Verb

the

going

to

next,

that

consider

they

if any
them

in

mistaken.
very

considerable

why
E

boys

portionof

should

do

the

50

Were

same.

would

Whirling

of

blundering

it inherit"

Avhich
so

right
the

among

which

But

"

revenons

back

get

to

attentive
in

forth
of

verbs.

Eton

proceed
Sum,
that

to

es,

is the

Rule

1.

give

fui, esse,

each

To

of

that

is, let
the

all of

assisted
of

which

them

shall

we

most
set

as

that

by

us

kind
now

specimens.
futurus, to be,

you

faculty, apply
boys, which,

person

of

"

or

be

to be

not

"

in consideration

him, he will readilygive you.

master.

singular and
taste

your

deficient

for assistance

to the

verb,

according to

noun,

Should

boy, apply

indeed

question.

plural,join a
talent.

few

"

recommend

We

ideas,

all

Sha}/-hovse.

moutons,"

Grammar,

of

association

and

"

would

It

down

diligentstudy

and

the

Shaos.

nos

and

Chaos,"

broken

our

able
respect-

of confusion

Ovid

the poet

dixere

called

than

little better

be

itself,

"

gloriousstate

by

Quern

have

men

stars

in that

"

the

left,pell-mell,helter-

and

fixed

described

admirably

from

far

our

precepts,

neighbouring planets,

the

about

their

to

this time

by

doubt,

no

away,

society

skelter

world

of

examples

the

attending

the

be

follow

to

of

instead

teachers,
where

all

we

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

to

in

the

one

of
If

your

of

or

comic

inventive
the

senior

fagging for

yourselfa

senior

THE

COMIC

LATIN

51

GRAMMAR.

Examples.
Indicative
Present

Mood.

Tense.

Am,

Vir,

man,

Stultus,

fool,

Latro,

thief.

Sing.
Sum,

I am,

Es,

Thou

Est,

He

art,

is,

Plu.

Sumus,

We

Estis,

Ye

Sunt,

They

We

are

are,

Plebeii,

snobs,

Errones,

vagabonds.

are,

proceed in

would

we

Patricii, gentlemen.

are,

this way

with

that

but

Sum,

being tire-swm.

afraid of

Regular.

Verbs
First

Amo.

Conjugation.

Sing.
Amo,

I love,

Amas,

Thou

Amat,

He

Puellam,

lovest, Fartum,

lass,

pudding,

porcinam, pork.

Carnem

loveth,

Plu.

love,

Doctrinam,

learning.

Leporem,

comicality,

Amamus,

We

Amatis,

Ye

Amant,

They love, Poesin,

The

love,

of which

consideration
Rule

2.

In

three

repeating the

verbs, be careful

to

be

poetry.

things leads
different

provided with
e2

us

tenses

short

to

of

Eng-

52

THE

lish verse,

LATIN

contrived

so

composition

well

as

rhyme

to

as

In

plural.

person

GRAMMAR.

another

singular, and

person

third

COMIC

to

this

the

rhyme

with

your

powers

way

of memory

as

with

will be

third
the
of

profitably

exercised.

Example.
Conjugation.

Second

Moneo,

Sing.

Reid
Plu.

Co.'s

Beats

from

that

Conjugation.

Regimus,

Should

3.
each

Rego.

regitis,reguni,

may

Grand

have

to

toes,

clear

the

(we

mean

of

kind

sar/.

your

up

great

voices, and

to

punt.

give
which

class

success

of
and

the

lish
Eng-

of

singing

head,

begin.

turn

A-hem

are

you

you),

low
fol-

striking

representation

that
your

tense

dramatic

Opera,"
Hold

desired

in

with

in

bear

be

you

plan adopted

eflfect in that

like

person

repeating, you

"

firmament.

for office unfit,

statesman

Is much

the

Rego, regis,regit,

Plu.

of

wet.

monetis, monent.

Hule

heavy

Monemus,

Third

Sing.

monet.

mones,

"

Moneo.

what
out

tled
entiyou

your
!

iO ROUGH

THE

THE

LATIN

COMIC

Fourth

53

GRAMMAR.

Conjugation.

Audio.

Trio.

Sing.

Audio,

I hear

Audis,

Thou

Audit,

He

the Tartar
hearest

hears

Tartar
Chorus.

He

Are

! the Tartar

He

hears

He

hears

We

regular bores.

applicableto them,

hear

The

all of them

almost

there

Rules

Verbs

have

some

are

"

the

drum

drum

drum, "c.

equally

are

also to the

and

it may

which

"

above

Defective

Concerning

tar

the Tartar

Irregular

Verbs

drum

drum

drum

the Tar

Audimus,

the Tartar

the Tartar

h--e---a--rs

Plu.

drum

asserted, that though

be
tenses

which

more

have

less

or

not

fect,
imper-

perfect
singleIm-

Tense.

Verbs.

Impersonal

delectat,it delighteth; decet, it becometh,

Such

as

"c.,

answer

Avord

it before

to

such

them.

English
When
E

we

verbs

as

consider

take

the

that it is

54

COMIC

LATIN

endearment

used

THE

of

term

it's

"

as

pretty dear,"

Verbs

however,

is not,

of
is

far

as

participleis

as

its

the
the
and

noun

be

London,

proportion of

four

belonging

declension

be

help thinking

Such

pet verbs.
the fact.

know,

hybrid part

composition may
about

babies,

to

PARTICIPLE.

parts verbs, and

in and

to

we

mongrel-cross, between
two

speaking
cannot

we

Impersonal ought

OP

in

DEAR.

PRETTY

that

GRAMMAR.

to

; those

parts

likened
which
to

and

noun

four

speech

of

two.

noun

unto

is

the

The

kind
It

verb.

wherefore
milk

usually watered

it,are, number,
of the

sold
in

properties of
gender,

verb, tense,

and

case,

nificat
sig-

As

four

hath

horse

55

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

legs,

hath

so

four

verb

participles.
Air.

There

's

There
Of

the

of the

one

but

"

readers

words
and

the

us

do

in

for

love

grievously
was

in that

and

it cost

in fees to

being
of his
he

he

of

out

the

enabled

to

exchange

affections.

was

paying

gave

long, and

At
rather

it up.
laid out

last

he

too

dear

What
so

much

most

dearly 1

tion,
ques-

of

admit

themselves
a

with

began

be

most

who

friend

month,

week

to

the

once

object
that

think

for his whistle

girlwould

to

that without

word

money

sixpence

and

servant,

been

for about

and

seven

loving

man's

silly enough)

have

We

few

readers

and

old

condition

least

maid

(blue)

say

to

male

our

pocket.

at

love

finding

unfortunate
him

often

appear

are

without

months

six

of

any

women

not

they

(when

fair

to

upon

It has

does

defy

adjective,

our

between

or

men

matter

We

doubt.

called

feel

loving.

woman's

again,

and

(amans) loving.

a-mans

difference

whether
To

nouns

ask

we

can

we

the

on

like

declined

how

here

Now

rus

in dus.

future

of the

decline

to

in

future

"

no

then,

"

third,
a
preterperfect

tense

Participles are
as

and

present,

of the

's one

fourth

of Blue.

Bonnets

"

have
without

held
a

so

so

on

return

"

5Q

they

what

to

the

to

And

lady

when

in these

thing

any

it

help

could

"

less

precious prerogative

like

ping"
shop-

"

than

the

of

lords

the

round

if

sum

is the

dearly
of

the

of her

dispose

love

To

them
of

hear

good

go with

to

would

days

no.

no,

they

should

we

who

admirers

their

of

Think

coach-hire, pastry-cooks,

of

price of admission,

at

she

nothing

play.

young
hand

Women,

ribands, bracelets, and

in

them,

say

the

and

loving dearly, love, according to

by taking

save,

with

like,

cash

hard

experience, particularlycheaply.

own

our

of

instead

indeed,

of

affection, but

of soft

not

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

creation

the

alone.

or

we

The

participleof

are

as

ens;

design

or

about

to

That

future

in

about

and
passive signification,
tus,

whipped

That

as

dendus,
Note

to be

1.

future

declined

in dus

has

Flagellandus, to

to

hurt.
has

in

zts,

generally a
as

Flagella

also
be

nificat
passive sig-

whipped

hse-

hurt.

All

adjective. We
be

ends

Flagellaturus,

as

Lsesus, hurt.

of the

a7is,

Laedens, hurting.

preterperfecttense

the

in

signifiesa likelihood,

rus,

Lsesurus,

ends

tense

present

doing something,

of

whip
of

the

Flagellans,whipping;

of the

That

participles.

forgettingour

But

like

participlesare
recommend

winking.

declined

the above

like

nouns

to
participles

THE

There

2.

whipping

top,

"

three

are

OF

Convex
used

to

and

diminish

Spectacles

verbs.
are

the

joined to
joined

are

Bene, well

contrivances

magnitude

parts of speech used

are

mulLum

Ca?sar

much

bridge of

increase

much

multum,

the

the

THE

natives.

NATIVES.

and

male, ill,"c.

indigenas:

conturbavit

AST0NI3III"0

or

nose.

adjective,

nouns

astonished

fyESVK

objects.

words.

the

to

to

of

adverbs.
Caesar

by-

cream.

spectaclesare

of
signification

the

hurt

not

are

ADVERB.

diminish

or

are

Adverbs

AN

concave

increase

Adverbs

things that

syllabub, and

57

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

58

THE

COMIC

OF

things ;
To

to

for instance

glue,

to

joins words
Roman

adhesive

and

hkened

to

arabic,

joineth

unto

many

gum

to

together

like

(Laiin conjunctions
to

(for

mortar,

more

bricks),
cially),
espe-

isinglass, to putty,

to

plaster, to matrimony.

ei

are

lardum,

dimidium^we,
love

be

of egg,

white

Conjunctions
Ova

it may

sentences

cement,
to

that

speech

"

paste,
and

of

part

wherefore

together ;

it

CONJUNCTION.

conjunction is

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

thus

used.

eggs

half-and-half.

madness.

IIAUFANU-HALF.

and

Dimidium

bacon.
Amor

et

dementia,

THE

COMIC

OF

LATIN

before
each

another

word.

Ab, ad,

Sometimes
with

part of speech

Words,

other, though

words.

PREPOSITION.

Preposition is

been

do

known

set

not

eat

to

eat

prepositions.

"c.

ante,

however,

have

men

commonly

prepositionis joined in composition

another

59

GRAMMAR.

word,

jorostratus, knocked

as

down

"

floored.
Tullius

Tully

ab

aquario ^rostratus
knocked

was

OF

An

Lack-a-day

Hem

We

here

shall

we

make

Accidence,
than
follow
should

Oh

ourselves
the

short

of

are

the

Eton

Hollo

there

sudden

dear

!
"

Heu

Brutus.

approaching

three

work,

Concords,

!
"

Grammar
make
are

the

with

lightful
de-

which

first, for fear of further

we

are

repetitions,which,

obliged to

However,
mentioned.

Hei

and, secondly, because

boys

be

of

expressing

! Titus.

find

subject

waterman.

Brute,

Tite, Bravo

word

feeling, as

or

by

INTERJECTION.

AN

interjectionis

emotion

Euge

down

est

in

the

in the

just one

were

no

fonder
we

Concords,

to
we

Syntax.
or

two

points to

be

60

THE

LATIN

COMIC

copy-books.)

(Text-hand

Rule.

GRAMMAK.

Ask

"

no

questions."
When

Exception.
should

concord
Who

"

nominative

case

verb, for the

tive
accusa-

the

find

to

"

following

the

the

where

find

to

to

verb.

the

Whom
after

what

or

the

to

Who

relative.

But

remember,
1

is

example,
are

do

by

they expect

demands

long."

is

"

it

is

dog's

the

adjective,

for

in

the

stantive
sub-

have

"

uncivil
tail

to

the

and

to

but

Sir,"
to

short,

say.

as.

be
or

Who

Has

your

like, used

only

themselves

asked

for

ill mannered.

are

expressions
?

grammar,

What,

than

never

go

interrogatives

conversation.

of such

mangle

antecedent

justifiable in

questions

most

to

of the

ill-bred

more

for the

verb,

use

however

whatever,

Johnson,

Why

her
who

persons

where

speak

sold

mother

the

that

Indeed,

not

the

? with

be

can

you

We

with

impertinent

very

the

with

adjective.

what

and

what

or

the

who

what

or

it.
]

Who

to

ask

be,
what

or

want

you

of all unnecessary

said

the

great

Dr

continually asking.
why

is

cow's

tail

As

the

the

"

must

in Prsesenti"

do

with

for

Let

the

extended

series

of exercises,

Air.-

"Here

"

male

valid

tute
substi-

kind

you

which

indulgence

respect, is

this

in

society.
be

turned

manner

of bashful

into

"

fifteen.''

call,

masculine

deities

Apollo, the

Bacchus,

all,

Cato, Virgilius,virorum.

And

Latin
Oh

's

Fine

bore, and

that

I wish

how

Fluviorum,

in

rivers

ocean

October
ut

do

not

recommended,

pretend that
is

o'er.

was

likewise,

instance

an

's

sore,

lost are,

Libs, Notus,
Latin

me

lesson

my

that

"

Ventorum,

bothers

Tibris, Orontes

ut

Mensium

We

verbs.

in like

maiden

we

the

Maribus"
or

joke,

(forexample), Divorum,

sunt

Mars,

the

us

and

with

civilized

to

thus,

's to

of the

names

Ut

And

to

Propria Quae

"

the

and

joke,

no

of

much

esteemed

always
;

is

did

we

as

tellinga story
have

Maribus.'"

is too

universallygranted

that

All

is

song

would

we

them

of

name

Maribus"

Propria Quae

"

As

Singing

by the

Qiice

Propria

"

NOUNS,

OF

known

Coiiimonlj'

61

GRAMMAR.

GENDERS

THE

OF

LATIN

COMIC

THE

suppli s

Auster.

bore, "c.

the

mode

of

perfectly original.

study

The

here

genuine

62

THE

COMIC

LATIN

Propria Quae Maribus,

writingsof

the

useful
It

has

truths

not

in

may
wish

in

remembered,

to

detract

is, that

in

he

THE

works

to

that
any

in

have

might
his

and

opinion,which
been

generally

We

shall

give

and

the

Grammar

while

he

all

of

was

we

little

about

TENSE,

PRETERPERFECT

As

in Prsesenti

Oh

! send

Save
Ah

me

the

it.

Sec.

Juvi

Could

me

"

from

how

Prcesenti.''''

"

well

done, lean,

juvo,

secui

n't I lie and

lots of

grav\-,

nexui.
is

sweet

and

with

cream

from

apple-pie,

seco,

tipple,more

Gra?co

the

more

Preterperfect avi.

"

lavo, lavi, nexo,

!

in

"As

no

think

VERBS.

Otherwise

it

have

we

merit
;

one

beg

we

doing,

so

introduced

work,

(we

have

from

way

nally
origi-

were

of Homer

style;

above

tain
cer-

numbers.

Analogy

the latter

poet in the Eton

comicality into

OF

the

schools.
the

be

illustrious

sung.

to

us

of

commentators,

among

or

appear

the

specimen

more

from

incline

does

entertained

said

be

to

Virgil)would
however

in harmonious

question

derived

that

antiquity,consist

interestingcompositions

intended
mean

Preesenti, like the

in

As

recorded

these

whether

and

remote

most

been

GRAMMAR.

OF

From

micui

Which
Plico

makes, Oh ! roast

lovely bird

goose,

plicuigives. Delightfulgrub

which

frico,fricas,fricui,to rub

And

"

domo, tono, domui, tonui make,

So
And
I

mico, word

necui, and

neco,

63

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

sonui.

sono,

Lead

"

the hee^-siake

mean

Which

to crack

means

Then

veto, vetui

Cubo,

to

lie

What

viler
to form

Sto
Well

stake,

crepui too.

crepo,

(as roasted

do,)

chestnuts

forbiddingsound,

makes"

confound

along (theseverbs

cubui, do gives rightlydedi

gods) makes

Ye

"

the

to

me

objectthan
steti has

let it if it
"

seedy

"

predilection
;

likes, I've
"c.

that 's

coat

"c.

objection.

no

"c.

SYNTAXIS.
or

Q. What

the Construction

part of the

indulgencessold
A.

of

Grammar.
resembles

grammar

in the middle

ages

the

Sin-iSLX.

The
The
Where

Concord;

first

Nominative

case

there

personality,there

is much

little concord.
f2

and

the

Verb.
is generally

64

However,

is

and

in number

case

ad

bonos

never

too

est

personal agrees

verb

person,

via. The

mores

The

"

the attention
the

gods in

The

above
of

the

gallery,and

except for the

as

maxim

case

You

es

good

manners

Jonathan.

especiallyworthy

in law

and

man,

medicine

of Members

of pronouns

sake

nice

nunquam

to

way

is

oHhe
is

es,

you

are.

of
of

House.

rarelyexpressed,

of distinction

exquisitus, tu
're

Sera

as

"

Tu

its nominative

GENTLEMEN.

neophytes

nominative

with

that, brother

Mind

late.

AMEBICAN

Nofe

GRAMMAR,

LATIN

COMIC

THE

or

emphasis,

^1M (L-E

".; ';

L-

WIOLI.JTOS

1'-

... V

M 1
MORES

B 0 IIC 0 S S E
NOW

SIN!

THE

COMIC

Sometimes
the verb,

Who

faithful

in

say

didicisse fideliter artes,

mores

study

mawkish

it ?

of the fistic

accomplishment.

Olympic

and

of the

of

ancients;

proficiencyin

and

be

can

than
conviviality
both

attendant

its beneficial

its

on

this

question,seeing that
the

us

the

of

use

most

well known

devotedly
Sometimes
in the

there

be

the

to

admiration
attached
an

place of

to

adverb

the

can

doubt.

Nor

can

called

be

objectis

of

all),it
who

bravery,are,

to

in

teach

is

besides
to

nominative,
3

genitivecase
as

"

is

larly
particutheir

woman,

ring.

with

its

(which perhaps

fair sex,

the

the

of

no

practice?

and

And

of

to

good fellowship,

to

pursuasive argument

pleasing

allude

Then,

its immediate

hands.

our

fanciful

science.

the fine arts

on

of the

frequenttapping of claret,

study

influence

only

universallycelebrated

are

the

to

of themselves

are

elegant and

conducive

more

much

nothing

say

need

eminently social tendency,

What

heart.

have

we

which

the

we

fact, that the Corinthians

for their

To

Games,

proof

Briton's

In the first place, it is

classical

tastes

But, besides,

Isthmian

viri.

esse

art

guards

praise of boxing.

suflScient

sinit

non

softness

doubt

can

to

case

as

Mollitos

From

Q5

GRAMMAR.

is the nominative

sentence

Ingeniiaspugni

The

LATIN

stands

66

THE

Partim
Part
We

LATIN

COMIC

mordebantur,

astutorum

of the

GRAMMAR.

knowing

ones

contend

that

Exceptions

to

must

bit.

were

the

above

the

Rule.

is

racy

observation.

Verbs

of

the

that

there

is

and

this

exception ;

an

the

to

infinitive

Sjmtax.
then

learn

to

"

Verbs

We

accusative

an

the

had

have

cause
) be-

not

much

so

to

"

of the infinitive

them

it did

wish

to

not

however

resume

particularlyapplies

axiom

used

without

rule

any

member
Re-

hold.

but

"

scarcely

should

we

mood

often

mood

of

instead

case

conjunction quod,

set

fore
be-

tive;
nomina-

left out

being

ut,

or

have

as,

Annam

They
A

verb

that

say

placed

stacks
and

of

agrees

with

We

have

English

beneath

donkey
of

one

cases

between
or

the

of
two

other,

is

the
be

us.

est,

venenum

amarae

written
it may

choice

almonds

Perhaps

dead,

it,as

Amygdalae
Bitter

like

nominative

two

is not

it makes

hay,

Anne's

Queen

between

different numbers,

occubuisse

aiunt

reginam

poison.

English

imagined

beneath
that

we

the

think

Latin.

good

A
to

plural verb

one

Pars

puerorum

Part

of the

And

they

so

is sometimes

of multitude

singularnoun

67

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

joined

as

philosophum secuti

boys

would

philosopher.

the

followed

sunt,

particularlyif they

now,

saw

in costume.
Verbs

them,

impersonal

have

no

nominative

case

before

as

Taedet

me

Pertsesum

Grammatices,
est

lam

Syntaxeos,

weary
I

am

of Grammar.

quite

sick

of

Syntax.
Mirificum
tem

videre,

visum

est

Socratem

in gyrum

saltan-

68

THE

It seemed
Jim

Crow.

COMIC

wonderful

LATIN

to

behold

GRAMMAR.

Socrates

jumping

comic

the

latin

Second
The

concord.

substantive

and

nice

for

man

small

case,

Observe
and

nothing to

concord

known.

is between

ties

man

not

and

little
wife

discord, it

should

stantive
sub-

of wedlock

for, besides that in that happy

often

impossiblethat
gender.

the

of this kind ;

men

being well

adjective. The

it ;

is very

close

SPOON.

to drunkenness

how

as

tea-party.

Spartans,probably, were

their aversion

there

TEA

with

agree

and

gender, number,

The

pronouns

exiguo conventui, sobrioque idoneus

Vir
A

in

adjective.

the

and
participles,
Adjectives,
the substantive

69

grammar.

ever

is

are

state

([uite

agree

\\\

70

COMIC

THE

Sometimes

Audito

the

the

adjective being placed

reginam

being heard

lions

at

leones

The
The

of

in

the

visisse

Majesty

had

relative

relative

and

and

and

the

antecedent

agree

person,

one

with

hit it off
the other

degitvitam, moriturque

who

drinks
he

ought

very
in

Avell

gender,

as

Ille bonam

as

see

antecedent.

haurit

Lives

to

gone

Concord.

Qui plenos

He

supper.

together; they
number,

coenantes

that Her

Third

"

place

gender, as

neuter

It

the

GRAMMAR.

supplies

sentence

substantive

LATIN

cyathos,madidusque quiescit,

plenty,and
to

do, and

to

goes
dies

facetus.

bed

mellow.

jollyfellow."

THE

Horace
Cato

Avas

COMIC

LATIN

the

fellow

have

must

Sometimes

been

for

kind

this

is

of

thing.

blanket.

regular Avet

sentence

71

GRAMMAR.

placed

for

cedent,
ante-

an

as

Heliogabalus, spiritucontento,
demersit

ostrearum

alvum,

in

viginti quatuor
Dandoni

quod

etiam

antecellit.

longe

Heliogabalus,
dozen

of

oysters,

at

breath,

one

which

beats

swallowed
Dando

even

two

out

and

out.

HELIOGABALUS.

Many
A

of the ancients

relative

placed

different

genders

with

latter, as

the

Pueri
matices

tuentur
et

Latin

Grammar.

between

and

numbers,

ilium

librum

Comica

Boys regard

could

that

swallow

good

deal.

substantives

two

sometimes

quae

agrees

Latina

Gram-

dicitur.
book

which

is called

of

the

Comic

72

THE

COMIC

Sometimes
which

LATIN

relative

with

agrees

in the

is understood

Mirabantur

GRAMMAR.

the

primitive,

possessive, as

impudentiam

qui

suam

ad

reginam

literas misit.
wondered

They
letter
If

nominative

in

verb,
the

wrote

the

word

verb,

is

the

governed by

whicfi is placed

as

surripuit,ad

Jovem

contempsit, pertinebant.

Lucifers
to

relative

Prometheus

quos

cujus numen

In

who

interposed between

other

some

with

sentence

the

verb,

by

or

Luciferi

The

impudence,

be

case

the

and

relative
the

his

the queen.

to
a

at

which

shirked,

Prometheus

Jupiter, whose

fact, Prometheus

longed
be-

authorityhe despised.
made

light

of

Jupiter's

liyhining.
We

only

take

now

how

leave

pleasant it

IT

'S

PLEASANT

of the

is to

TO

SEE

see

RELATIVES

Concords, observing
relatives

AGBEE.

agree.

COMIC

LATIN

subjectis

the

THE

Our

next

Construction
Which

is not

of small
or
"

quite

constructiveness"
of

construction
When

oi

case,

lumen

Ulysses

doused

Urbi
He
the

struction
con-

unlike

not

different

latter

is

the

cation
signifi-

tive
put in the geni-

extinxit

Cyclopis
the

glim

of the

is sometimes

genitivecase

dative,

the

sense

as

Ulysses

This

of

together,the

meet

one

puzzles.
substantives

two

in

substantive, is

nouns

faculty of

displaying the

though

"

the construction

as

kites,pinwheels,crackers,

of

mode

Substantive.

amusing

so

boats, paper

other

any

Nouns

of

73

GRAMMAR.

Cyclops.
changed

into

as

pater est, urbique maritus.

is the

.fatherof the

Gram.

"

city,and

the

Eton.

husband

of

pretty fellow, whoever

he

city.
have

He

must

An

adjectiveof

been

was.

the neuter

substantive, sometimes
Paululum
A
A

very

honestatis

requiresa genitivecase,

as

sartori sufhcit

little honesty is

genitivecase

preceding

without

gender, put

enough

is sometimes

substantive

being

as
figureellipsis,
G

for

tailor.

placed
understood

alone ; the

by

the

74

THE

Ubi

about

The
to

of

are

you

word

signify

in

way

pigs

in

rather

when

his

fowl, mince

places

have

"c.

punch,

of repose.
the

and
a

consequences

out

betraying
of the

Two

that
one

sort

of

pig (or

the

by
the

master

on

dormitories,
cheese, shrub,

and

into
is

town

thereof, in

case

those

always

of discovery,

secret

should

is
be

pig,

called

it is

singular

lettingthe

cat

bag.

substantives

put in the

into the

great bore.

Considering
that

down

garden

learning

slyly smuggled

Shirking

little

of

though

pies,bread

been

the

seat

smelt

walk

rather

the

or

the

stool.

sometimes

nightly

roast

on

wax

master's

rat) is

taking

pig,

the

mean

of

one

horse-hairs

insinuating

putting cobbler's

or

we

"

is

so

discovers

this, or

"

the larder

Robbing

to

necessary

collar

got there, is

it

variety

then

and

now

his coat

to

denote

to

sometimes

it is

such

in habits, appearance,

him

also

but

is used

and

called, and

so

resemble

pedagogue

which

animal

as

question.

is another
cane,

the

things, which

secret.

(house),not

master's

general term,

very

feelings;

pig-tailappended
the

race

or

keep

is

only

not

the

de porco

verbum

cave

pig.

pig

human

of little

GRAMMAR.

to

come

the

word

the

LATIN

magistri veneris,

ad

When
a

COMIC

same

case,

respecting the
as

same

thing are

THE

LATIN

COMIC

Telemachum,

75

GRAMMAR.

indolis, Calypso

bonae

juvenem

existimavit.

Calypso thought
By
makes

Telemachus

what

the

way,

out

Marcellus

nice

to

have

Praise, dispraise,or

the

in

placed
case

"

man.

Virgil

man

young

been

quality of

ablative, and

verborum

paucorum
of few

man

words

Paterfamilias.
A

nice young

in

also

the

thing

is

genitive

as

Vir
A

the

father

The

man

of

of

and

family.

most

woes,

magni appetitus:

largeappetite.

multis

Vir
a

et

miseriis
man

of

many

however, is

woes.

hackney

coachman.

Opus, need,
case,

and

need, requirean

usus,

as

g2

ablative

76

THE

COMIC

Didoni

marito

Dido

But

LATIN

had

of

need

coena

usus

-^neas

had

need
be

to

appears

adjectivefor necessarius,

of the

King

Which

would

erat

of

chambre

his

dresses

who

dinner.

sometimes

placed

necessary,

as

coquus

Cannibal

serve

husband.

Regi Anthropophagoruin
The

erat

opus

-^neae

opus

GRAMMAR.

Islands

wants

best

purpose
or

men,

est

opus

an

cook.

valet-de-

"

like

wit, who

roasts

them?

Construction

The

THE

genitive

CASE

Adjectives

genitivecase,

This

natura

The

nature

vetularum
of old

aspire to

of character

these, require

be
to

on

the

that

of scandal.

old maids.

As

not

actuallyblue
them
to

avida

is fond

women

propensity

peculiarly adapted;
it is

ADJECTIVE.

obtrectationis

now-a-days,

help recommending

since

to

contrary

particularlyapplies to

their

THE

as

Est

being grey

Adjectve.

signify desire, knowledge,

the

delightfulcreatures

which

AFTER

which

fear, and

memory,

Nouns

of

kind

cuttingup

we

mean

foulest

and

those
with

content
;

of

we

cannot

study, for

renders

them

Anatomy.
most

odious

And

points

they chieflydelightto dwell,

we

especially suggest

more

Morbid

Anatomy,

attended

both

of

piece

used
this

as

purposd" has

answered

been

beneficii

Immemor
Unmindful
The

of kindness

sort

that

which

upon

us,

that

he

began

at the

Some

the

with

conferred

he

say

ever,
help thinking,how-

cannot

end.

wrong

the world, i.e. Not

has

originof

in

been

wasted

the

phrase
it

that

contended

have

to

controversy

determine

likely to forgetis

inculcating learning by

was

We

Unacquainted
Much

used

rod.

Imperitus rerum

murphy.

is least

one

he

when

by

late that

of

only

kindness.

master

our

of the

means

of

success.

weather.

the

it is

but

be

often, heretofore, been

has

sea-weed

likely to

is

of

prsescia:

foreknowing

barometer

which

tempestatum

mind

pursuit

the

and
gratification

with

Mens

them

to

one

as

77

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

"

'up

to

snuff.'

to

up

snuff."

suggested by

was

to

attempts

the

well-know

quality possessed by snuff, of clearing

the head;

but

derived
rogue
crusade
or

from

Snofe,

or

about

so

knowing,

that
as

"

up

Snoffe

Snoffe"

to
;

the

and
G

was

not

to

say

expression was

the

Snoffe, the

flourished

who

that

will have

Others

absurd.

fetched,

is far

this idea

name

time

of

of

cunning
the

first

signifiedas clever,
in process

of time

78

THE

COMIC

converted

into

"

deserving of
favour

before

the

view

soundest

the

is

Dutch

equivalent

for astuteness
Conf.

great.
Wonk-Fum.
a

host

viii. 24.

of commentators,

ancient

Roscius

timidus

Roscius

was

also

in

edax

Hence

rerum

Time

is the

Time

is sometimes

Nouns

also

they

take

Utrum
Take

to
to

our

be

horum

which

Queen

between

their

of

of those

Eleanor
the

dagger

mind, would

hanged

gave

on.

and

have

all

verbs,

things.

figuredas
of

an

number,
certain

genitive

gender
mavis

from

as

superlative,and
a

derived

consumer

partitively,require

passim, with

partitive, nouns
and

Pok.

Gods.

the

ax,

reputation

modern.

fuit

of

require a genitivecase,
Tempus

So

Deorum

afraid

Adjectives ending

and

High-

Hok.

Marin,

Cheek.

vogue

exceedingly

was

ii. 13.

Hookey- Walk,

in its

it with

ancient

whose

ancients

the

among

in

which

is

Probably

connects

Mercury,

to

in

was

tobacco.

which

is that

Znoufe,

name

proper

of

discovery

opinion

only argument

the

though

This

snuff."

to

up

notice

GRAMMAR.

is, that the phrase in question

long
the

LATIN

alderman.
nouns

parative
com-

adjectivesput
from

case,

which

as

accipe :
two

Fair

things you
Rosamond

the bowl
been

of

like

had
her

rather.
choice

poison. This,
choosing

tree

THE

COMIC

Primus

fidicinum

Orpheus
He

is said

lepidissimus erat

Momus

was

deities

head.

Momus

used

Namely,
heathen

that

god

have

ever

commonly
a

But

made

to

the

above

Primus

the

is the

that
who

proved

the

that

onlyrence
reve-

should

we

offeringmost

laughter

it

remark,

that

used

inter,

was,

bably,
pro-

with
ante

learn

the
he

was

man

except the hyaena.

more

or

is

than

the world

fact,
we

as,

that

laugh.
who

enough

crying.

science

one

Aristotle
the

est

wise

was

is better

these

philosophers.

amongst

to

in

comicality are,

whether

ex,

alone

he

laughing

first

we

e,

first

1 Because

why

more

much

philosophos Democritus

inter

Democritus

and

had

The

also

are

nouns

prepositions,a, ab, de,

was

of

is

one

all.

god

He

sacrificeof propriety.

the

find out

his sides.

deity.

have

at

to

his

sacred

should

sacrificed

shake

liim shake

certainlythe only

for, and

Gods.

Jupiter

Momus.

we

deorum

thee, O

aforesaid

the

made

te, sancte

follow

We

of broomstick^.

of the

make

to

Deorum

funniest
have

may

Sequimur

it

the hearts

Momus

Other

And

Orpheus

first of fiddlers.

charmed

the

79

GRAMMAR.

fuit

the

was

have

to

LATIN

to

He

philosophy
;

and

We
made

only laughing

that

forget
the
animal

80

THE

COMIC

LATIN

sometimes

Secundus

Inferior

to

virtute
of the

none

fame

"

has

later

poet.

Some

talk

Of

and

all the

and
and

Lysander,

gallant heroes,

in valour.

an

perpetuated

of Alexander,

Conon
of

But

been

had

as

case,

secundus

ancients

Surely Virgil in saying this,

whose

dative

requires a

ulli veterum

Haud

GRAMMAR.

in

some

to

eye
the

verses

of

of Pericles,

Alcibiades
there

hero,

's

for

none

to

compare,
With

my

ri-fol-de-riddle-iddle-lol

to

British

the

grenadier !"
An
to

interrogative,and

it, shall be

words

of

of

the

different

the

same

nulla

Quarum

rerum

Of

thinojs is there

what

case

construction
est

which

word
and

no

tense,

be made

satietas?
fulness

answers

except

use

of ;

Pomorum.
? Of

fruit.

as

THE

Dr.

Johnson

wall

fruit

COMIC

used
he

as

LATIN

to

that he

say

could

81

GRAMMAR,

got

never

much

as

eat.

-J^Ulnilui.il.nirulHlST

The

Dative

Case
which

Adjectives by

Adjective.

the

after

disadvantage,

advantage,

likeness,unlikeness, pleasure,submission, orrelation

to

thing is signified,
require

any

incocti

Astaci

patriaeidonei

sunt

serviceable

to

dative
in

case

cocti

pace

as

in bello.

autem

lobsters

Raw
peace
are

boiled

but

are

in

ones

their

claws

Lobster's

war.

in

country

nasty thingsto get into.

Corporation

The
afraid
One
called
marine

of the Police
of
a

the

of London

seemed

very

much

clause.

why

reasons

soldier

lobster, probably is, that

is sometimes

the

latter

is

animal.
Balsenffi

Very
Qui

color albus

The

colour
white.

which

persimile:

like

erat
was

nunc

whale.
est

white

contrarius
is

now

albo

contrary

to

82

THE

Some

and

always

not

will

swear

man

who

people

ends

LATIN

COMIC

be

is nevertheless

amicis

well,

or

soldier, "c.

considerablyblown
Some

of these

joined to

which

uncti

Like

of the

discoveries
Was

the

down

from

example

an

are

also

with

the

as

fulminis

friends

transatlantic

our

their

no

clouds, of the kind

to

Franklin.

countrymen
that

owing

doubt

the

Q.

philosopher

drew
in the

mentioned

Communis,
free,

will be

you

signifysimilitude,

lightning which
the

construe

can

be, that

all

con

confoundedly flogged.

not

electric fluid,is
of

must

you

com-

greased lightning.

of
familiarity

nature

if

up,

genitive case,
Par

The

You

will

co;isequence

comrade

the

of

compounded

nouns

attentively before

the

his constituents.

to

contubernalis,

as

fellow

words

his friends

to

referred

preposition con,

such

their

gain

this, though he may

will do

frequentlyso

are

to

"

Pleasant

milito,

is black

white

Jucundus

Hither

GRAMMAR.

are

common

joined

ablative
Aures

Long

case,

to

alienus, strange

genitive,dative,

with

longse communes
ears

are

common

immunis,

and

also

preposition,as
asinorum
to

asses.

sunt

to

COMIC

THE

Though

musical

whether

they

for

would

We

not.

are

have

the

doubt

even

admiration
slightest

^ray-ham.
Non

sunt

Tails

tails
"

to

though

these

Not

think

to

common

en-tails may

which

last

alienus

Non

We

not

are

hoininibus

caudse

communes

men.

and
coat-tails,shirt-tails,
pig-tails,

Except

our

ears

83

GRAMMAR,

LATIN

think

of

engaging

bread

and

Natus,

born

joined to

we

in

; and

not

were

an

should

unnatural

commodus,

as

quarrel

aptus,

accusative
Natus
Born

convenient

utilis,useful

earnest
an

soon

with

butter.

dus, inconvenient
vehemens,

off.

cut

pot of beer.

should

also be added,

perhaps

poculo cerevisiae

to

averse

often

are

rats'-

ad
to

case

inutilis,useless
sometimes

fit,are
with

laqueum
halter.

; incommo-

also

preposition,as

84

THE

Those

who

said

are

here

watermen

their

own

being

to shut

account,

dative

Penetrable
O

venerande

Listen,

case

in

office

coaches.

passively,
in

dus,

as

not

"

Listen

fond

! te

venerated

be

to

of

acting?

luget Olympus

by

the

me

Olympic

thee.

Case

of

Adjective.

the

after

quantity is put

accusative, the

after

ablative, and

adjectives,

the

genitive

as

Anguis
A
Arbor

centum

snake

pedes longus :
feet

hundred

gumnifera,

alta

mile

and

mille

long.
et

quingentispas-

sibus.
A

their

adjectives ending

star

mihi

measure

case,

from

of hachiey

no

Accusative

the

who, by

those

are

astro
penetrabilis

by

bewails

The

such

mentioned,

be

called

so

the doors

NuUi

The

meant

are

participlesmade

require a

ing.
drown-

are

adjectivesending in hills,taken

Verbal
and

from

watermen

it should

mistakes,

prevent

that the

why

reason

destiny,

of rogues
To

exalted

for this

enjoy a peculiarimmunity

Is this the
set

GRAMMAR.

reserved

are

to

LATIN

COMIC

gum-tree
Aranea,
A

lata

spiderten

pedum

half

high.

denum

feet broad.

An

accusative

to

Some

men

their

increase

and

as

to his head

as

shoulders, and
natural

shoulders.

and

like

exceedingly

this

tives
put after adjec-

dum,
preposition secun-

understood,

cod-fish
are

head

the

asello similis

humerosque

Like

to

be

to

appears

Os

is sometimes

case

where
participles,

and

85

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

THE

cod-fish,as

they

often

resemblance

to

endeavour
much

as

as

possible,by wearing gills.

The

Case

Ablative

relate

Adjectives which

to

plenty or

requirean ablative,sometimes
Amor

et

honey

of love is

"

Honey, however,
The

gallof

First.

we

is Latin

love

want,

of
do

not

and

know

as

gall.
exactlywhat.

for love,astheIrishman said.

consists

Tight boots, in

honey

times
some-

genitivecase,

felle est foecundissimus

et

full both

is very

Love
The

melle

Adjective.

the

after

in

which

it is often

necessary

86

to

do

before

penance

at all events

being

Another

Gall

and

is

of

"

the

the

rod.

regard
of

to

connects

the

or

in

masters

on

the

branch

reader

the

be

by

them

no

most

means

barbarian.

do

we

"

account

out

of

nature

to

realitya

be

into

bawling.

barbarus

re

not

better

to

of their

twig
a

call thern

so,

discussion

it may
allied

it

decidedly with

the
the

is

with
at'

proclaim
to

of

partiality

If

mean

brothers

to

barbarity hinted

barbarity which, though

perpetrators
race,

with

it would

angle,

to

erat

certainlyallude

we

Does

the

name

old

perhaps

unnecessary

kind

in

the

painters though

to

ablative

form,

the

raucus

hoarse

was

of

many

of

of

treated

an

govern
and

cause

grammaticus,

"

passions

vociferatione

grammarian

brothers

is

thing, as

Nomine

the brush

of the

subsantives

and

Demosthenes

Like

love

Spurzheim.

Demosthenes

it communicates

galling thing in

one

signifying the

manner

which

sighs,to

very

Love

Adjectives
case,

is

out.

cut

Fourthly.
by

This

bitterness.

peculiar

Thirdly.

window.

Ladys

our

In lover's

Secondly.

GRAMMAR.

galling.

very

their

LATIN

COMIC

THE

"

its

feline
canine

species.
Dignus, worthy

indignus,unworthy

prceditus.

THE

endued

captus, disabled

torris,banished

87

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

content

; contentus,

fretus,relying upon

liber, free

case,

as

Leander

dignus

Leander

was

Poor

fellow

then

over

What

an

What

him

as

nearing

and

heroic

she

watched

her

every

but

have

know

miserably

he

was

went

her

octo, venale

by

been.

have

thought

lusty
the

mean

who

else

How

mind.

last ! Never

many

since, gone,

and

he

goose

one

fishes for love,

"

lonely tower,

nightly exploits!

of his

the

have

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any

Shocking

What

matter.

the

in love, and

cleft with

he

as

gulled at

to

to

Conscientia

must

from

moment,

he, has, before

cause,

same

sea

must

fair Hero

considered

been
to

than

he

him

no

happened

man

the

fate.

ears

foaming herring-pond.
"

Leander

over

man

the

fato

better

in

ears

young

duck, too,

of

head

! first to be

Hellespont
must

meliore

erat

worthy

head

the

arm

ablative

adjectivessignifyingprice, requirean

with

; ex-

If

better

from

the

dogs.

procuratoris solidis

sex,

denariis

est:

is

lawyer's conscience

to

sold

be

for six and

eightpence.
Some

of

Carmina
Verses

admit

these, sometimes

digna
worthy

deae

of

goddess.

genitivecase,

as

88

THE

Whether

the

or

were

COMIC

shall

we

addressed

perhaps,

to

if

Lines

by

these

Vacant

the

Trembles
So

Till it

shall

for

ah

the

Where
Fond

when
Hears

smiles

unsleeping,
!

grave

requited,
should

doom

be

think,

at

times

on

me

spicy gloaming.
the

affection
Loves

There

twine

wave,

disunited,

ever

amid

eye.

sigh.

tuneful

fate my

Think,
Oft

thine

dispelling;

canopies the

Envious

them

fragrance weeping.

another's

Though

with

Lover.

meet

to

brakes

silent

echo's
the

their songs

instil.

roaming.

lingerby
voice

the

goddess, may,

heaves

the

to

heart

my

Joy

soft

with

they

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memory

rose,

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pages

of absence

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god-

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at

"

met

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with

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As

of

pages

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one.

decide

to

events

idolizingconstitutes

the

turning over

all

at

of

worthy

are

attempt

not

one

termed

be

GRAMMAR.

followingverses

not,

being who,

LATIN

rill
"

consoling.

nightingalecomplain,

in

THE

Gentle

sighs my

Bind
Oft

thy

Fancy

deep

mirror'd

I would

Torture

I hear

for

It

would

be

heart

so.

But

shall

we

with

the

we

are

ALEDM

arrive

there

with

knell !
!

madness

well !

AUTHOR.

well

as

love

yet

to

come

very

Syntax.
h3

soon

instructive
and

verses

the proper

were

not

bee

fare thee

interestingas

if this

distraction's

settle the difference between

verses,

caresses

like

ever

AN

see

sadness
glittering

is

gildsmy

Now

image

lavish

vain

Hark,

recesses,

the vain

mocks

how

beauty's chain.

soul in

my

89

GRAMMAR.

lipscontrolling,

in slumbers
I

But

LATIN

COMIC

the

to

sense
non-

place for doing

Prosody

unless

we

get

nor

on

90

THE

COMIC

Comparatives,
the

by

word

LATIN

Avhen

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with
of

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comparatives

to

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hoc,

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by

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words

exceeding
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as

deformissimus,

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quanto

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of

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have

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be

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plus habent,

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is

It is all very

contemplative disposition;

they

curious

school-boys,
and

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ugliest,by

philosophers.
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much

so

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fact

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in

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in

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relation

to

history of
roast

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rather

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word

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to

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and

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reciprocal pronouns,

relation to that which

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erroribus

93

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admiratur

admires

Jonathan
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LATIN

Syntax,

regard

we

them

pointers.
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Case

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substantive,
am

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of

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fact

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their

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were

eating and

to

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the emblems

drinking, has
pursuit.This

two
satisfactorily,
things, first,

very

secondly, their

bonum

summum

of

the science

gastronomy

of
susceptibility

extreme

and,

the tender

passion.
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all verbs

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case,

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manner

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the nominative

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the

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possession,duty, sign, or
to

95

GRAMMAR.

taciti.

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pecus

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should

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eggs.

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97

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grandmother

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Humanum
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tuum

teach

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frailty

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amiable

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get drunk.

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poet (anon.)

human

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by establishingthe analogy

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intoxication

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lets

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signifiesthe charge
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probri, cum

accusat

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se

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It is fit that
should

look

he who

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accuses

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another

of

dishonesty

98

THE

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could

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domestic

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large cake

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for

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on

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of you

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superlative degree,

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manner.

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neither

99

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wife

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business.
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much

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pity

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on

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to

case,

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forget,

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mind,

as

the fifth of November.

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No

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remember,

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that

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many

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day

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considering the

with

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politicalfeeling connected

it.

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remember

see

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who

women

all

lovers

they are

or

porters of all kinds, seem

and

coachman

in

lover ; he

precor

and

men

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maids,
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and

besides

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men
coach-

to be rememhered.

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whether

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to

as

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husband

potitafiiit.

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the breeches.
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the

the

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after

dative

your

circulum

dear, he has taken

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case

tibi caput

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he took

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prisoner

come.

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did, when

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or

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away,

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to

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dative

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commodandum
live

101

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of

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and

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that

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;

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enabled

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103

GRAMMAR.

filiarum dimidium

daughters

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value

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half-a-crown

in

money

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to

the

dedit

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a-piece.
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notion

some

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of the

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of

dative

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case;

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to

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learn

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pecuniam

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state

of

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THE

felicity,
they
above

example,

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somewhat

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and

sufficiently
prove,
to

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of

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case,

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as

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vinosus, animis

Alexander,

when

imperare
could

drunk,

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at

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furnishes
on

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in any

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so

to

tion
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poem

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it.

about

have

we

temptation

at

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in those

thought

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as

slaughter
man-

his friend

slaying

resist the

not

this fact, since,

its narration

committed

he

beer,

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of

the

Lepidum

Augustus

be

it

schoolboys,

vice

or

under

something

descanted

sun.

veteratoreni

fuisse.

Augustus

told

that

Antony

Lepidus

was

humbug.
We

don't

know

Lepidus

is mentioned.

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exactly where

from

the

is

di

this historical

funny

fact

name.

foregoing rule,

rego,

to

rule.

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guberno, to

COMIC

moderor,

Luna
The

have

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times
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case

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ministers.

the

it is at

case

have

accusative

an

rules

say, when

to

accusative

an

regitministros
moon

105

GRAMMAR,

dative, sometimes

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which

govern,

and

tempero

LATIN

resembles

full,and

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great 0.
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beadle

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himself.

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softens

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temperat

semper

animos

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gubernat

pauperes

nor

tempers

his anger.

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is

Q. Why

moderatur

Ducrow

general

horses.

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manages

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officer

like

master

of

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he

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ruler

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107

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109

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boy

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112

the

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113

GRAMMAR.

apple-women, oyster-Avomen, fish-women,

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voices

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after

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115

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

COMIC

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lock

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penny,

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nut-shell,
of

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116

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Imjus,

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GRAMMAR.

value

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117

GRAMMAR.

to

by,

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COMIC

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with

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GRAMMAR.

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these

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119

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THE

COMIC

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skill

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execution

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121

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more

subjunctivemood,

the school -master

wrong

Verbs

nothing whether

persuaded

ushering

refert fecerisne

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mistake

we

feel that

we

not

are

whether

joined to

are

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there

of

num,

if

thus

debted
in-

are

reference

impossible to

Conjunctions

AND

an,

it is

half year
Moods

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notice,

of which

goodness
in

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into

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we

whom

to

somewhere,

observation.

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information

author

has

made,

similar

The

six months.

than

more

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just been

not,

menses

sex

piece of
interesting
to

has

sunt

minus, less,as

and

plus, more,

more,

AmpUus

GRAMMAR.

than, is often understood

conjunction,quam,

after

For

LATIN

they

like

whose
be

tallow

at

are

their

on

hand
the

same

likely to

fingers.

is in Grease
time

in

for

Dum,

LATIN

COMIC

THE

139

GRAMMAR,

dummodo,

that,

so

until, requires a subjunctivemood,

Dum

sis, quid refert

felix

What's

the

odds,

Qui, signifyingthe
mood,

You

are

when

as

you're happy.

as,

or

that, sicut, as, and

to

indicative

an

quo-

mood

but

although utpote,

final

the

believing Ovid.

after

joined

credas

signifiesquanquam,

it

mood,

Ovidio

fool for

is

how,

inodo,

to

cause,

asmuch
for-

subjunctive

as

Ut

in Ponto

sumus

Since

that

stood
Were

frozen

struck

of)

Seneca

Te

out
ever
"

oro,

Lastly,

paths, but
out

the

domine,

ut

exeam

me

go

put

many

Imagine

slide.

the
of

have

(that we

Cato

knock."

out.

indefinitely,such

quantus,

of

many

none

cobbler's

coming

all words

has

Danube

slijjperyground

on

struck

these, quis, who,

led

know,

we

let

ments
sliding classical accomplish-

and

new

I^lease,sir,

the

Ister

times.

three

tread

to

heard

in Pontus

Ambition,

Romans

frigoreconstitit

ter

are

we

skating
]

many,

"

requires a subjunctive

cause,

qui

es

Ut, for, postquam

or

as

quousque,

as

Stultus

them

long

so

and

how

as

are

great, quotus, how

require a subjunctivemood,

as

140

Such
A
worn

has

THE

COMIC

Cave

cui

Mind

who

you

may

have

been

curious

very
on

the

incurras, inepte:

against,stupid.

run

speech of

the

specimen

breast

latelybeen

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

by

of

this

discovered

the

Roman

tessera,

descriptionof
at

Herculaneum.

cabman.
or

badge,
persons,

the

The
A

Prepositions.

of

added,

pigneratorem loco

esteem

avunculi

causes

z.

e.

in loco

place

of

an

uncle

is, in loco.

prepositionin composition
same

sometimes

as

in the

pawnbroker

that
A

be

to

case

141

grammar.

prepositionbeing understood,

Habeo

the

latin

construction

ablative

an

comic

which

case

it also

sometimes

governed

governs
of composition,

out

as

Vulcanum

JupiterOlympo
Jupiter kicked
This

only

not

was

ungodly

act

Verbs

in

me

in the

me

This

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be

is

an

from

a,

very

as

the

insalutatum

to

contra,
an

de,

e,

in,

ex,

their

elegantly,as

wine.

accusative

above, requires

ab,

that

that

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supra,

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teriori,
pos-

allusion

remembered

except

prepositionswith

same

vino

abstained

properly

have

must

composition, and

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They

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an

Quadrant.
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repeat the
of

out

it

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compounded

sometimes
case

think

also

but

Vulcan.

Proeteriit
cut

Olympus.

Jupiter's part.

on

unpleasant to

of

out

exegit :

ungentlemanly,

an

would

one

He

Vulcan

calce

the
tea
case

Tiber-totallers.
unknown

was

of

pronoun.

against,ad,

accusative

case,

in

as

to, and

142

THE

LATIN

COMIC

GRAMMAR.

Quietum

Accipit in

pueros

He

kind

The

admits
the

boys.

master

does

or

Nick

to

idem

the

beyond

in the

Mr.

Isaaculus

time

the

for

will

care.

joined

depor-

the

rule

Quid

de

and

the

expressed

domesticis

may

be

your

economy

as

be
a

questioned

necessary

or

cheating.
is

put with
an

an

ablative

et Garamantas

imperium

Africans

transported

was

lest it should

of

extend

wide

Ikey

de, concerning,with

Proferet

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making

his

to

maria

trans

transported

was

Super

of

seas.

the seas,

I.

"

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He

intrusted

"

contingent consequence

case,

habit

time, is commonly

to

same

beyond

whether

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(vide Nicholas

Squeers

was

towards

est

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say

them

as

case,

tempus

tatus

inclinations

gives

gentlemen

it relates

accusative

Sub

We

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of the young

an

Mr.

out.

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he

when

"

benignam

mentemque

thoughts and

illustriss.

much

blow

animum

et

tive
accusa-

case,

as

Indos

empire

both

beyond

the

censeas

Indians.
in

poeticalmeasure.

Peruviorum

rebus

opinion concerning
of the

Peruvians]

the

mestic
do-

THE

Tenus,
both

in

COMIC

far

as

LATIN

is

as,

joined

the

singularand

Cervice,

auribusque

niebatur
Marius
What

joined
follows

found

lark

to

case,

as

in

Marius

tenus

to

up

rather

or

its case,

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Which

ablative

an

plural number,

luto inve-

and

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mud

in mud.

ears

But

is

tenus

it

plural,and

always

as

tenus

it is

his neck

in the

genitiveonly

to

was

143

GRAMMAR.

very

to

up

the

legs.
be

to

necessary

and

Epsom

at

Ascot.

Construction

The

And
as

exposed
an

! of

accusative,
O

lex !
! Oh

meum

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flock,

stones.

dangerous

have

must

vocative
law

reliquit:

of

been,

to

situation
say

the

berth.

exclaiming, is joined to

one

as

5^ee/y-hearted world, which,

uncomfortable

most

case,

hope

flint

bare

the

infancy.

for tinder

to

Irishman

least, a

the

upon

left the

she

yeaned,

alas!

! silice in nuda

gregis,ah

Having

Interjections.

put without

often

are
Interjections

Spem

of

case,

nominative,

as

alaudas.

Oh

! Oh

what

dear

is Latin

larks

for oh

Oh

Crikey

144

THE

Heii

COMIC

! and

! Oh

Proh

is

boy

Fagin

what

say

may

it

effect which

Hei

beast

! and

Hei

mihi

Woe

is

Ovid
a

that love
the

like

that love
would

might

tiger

is the

joined to

in

similar

is curable

philter.

of those

who

breed

tleman's
gen-

to

readiest

to

way

said

be

excited

by

ancients

certain

Every

And

for

the

herbis

pangs

be

which

smoked

beljeved

articles taken
then

Why

bane

as

herbs.

no

impossible to allay the

manner.

case,

that, if he had
The

tobacco.

dative

by

antidote; if so, there may

a

is

beneficial

medicabilis

est

vegetable kingdom.

considered

the

minds
that

Twist

public schools.

of

contend

amor

have

chewed

be

in

will

the

on

alas, are

nullis

quod
me

we

"

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adopted

junior boy

of him.
vee

never

cigar or

from

up

it

in

they

produces

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son

pitiedthan

that

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pitied!

described

system
to

make

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to

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to

more

nothing compared

are

"

pisciculosque!

miserande

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bellis !

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as

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and

little fishes !
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to

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case,

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cry

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to

vocative

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are

sometimes

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Clamor

GRAMMAR.

! alas !

proh

nominative,

LATIN

should

feeling

same

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its

ponding
corres-

physic even
a

it

for

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THE

COMIC

LATIN

inflicted,what

remedy

reasonable

the

than

generallyends

misero

to

Lydia, by

Virginian weed

CURE

FOR

THE

immundis,
my

prescribed

be

"

more

besides,love

HEARTACHE.

capiti,madefacto,

Imbribus
Woe

could

in smoke.

Va3

145

GRAMMAR.

wretched

the unclean

Lydia

sa?pe
cara,

fenestras
tuae

head, often wetted, dear

showers

of your

window.

146

COMIC

THE

would

This
remarks

state

the

on

of

ancient

that the

Romans

with
this for

an

from

salutary

on

sometimes

took

umbrella

on

this hint

these

imperfect

this

interesting

the

selves
them-

provide

occasions,
distich

well

to

days

"

us

that

of

being

and

with

worthy

modern

and

will have

It appears

is

in these

conclude

we

to

care

the above

precaution

adopted

very

pretty generally admitted

which

the

information

obvious.
sufficiently

rendered

which

serenading ;

doing by

always

reason

of

mode

is, however,

It

few

place for introducinga

proper

present

our

point.

so

prevented

are

Av^e

be

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

Syntax.

PROSODY.

All
Must

As
of

sound

"

study

of

bards

well

cod-fish
of

Prosody.
teaches

Prosody

so

what

teaches

cry

Prosody

and

the sound

what

is the

little wool"
into

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to

we

three
tone
"

to
or

time,

repeat

it in

drawling
or

and

loud
with

thing ; though

same

reconciled

be

to

is divided

Time.

and

the

quantity mean

fact is

that

and

be,

syllables.
and

great

is

would

note

your

Comparative Anatomy

Sound
how

that

you

with
do

not

the

proverb,

know.

ing,
parts, Tone, Breath-

boys
one,
as

are

usually

without
little

breathing-time, as possible.

quired
re-

mering
stam-

breathing

THE

COMIC

shall leave

We

and

tone

than

we

only

of Time.

Now

of Time

taking the
of

word

being

; and

in all the

he is spent,

he

but this

flies
"

before

also

; as

Time

is

very

wasted, lost,kicked

often

as

It is

as

an

of the

and

for

but

"

is

"

the

;
"

for all that

but

of

dancing.

proprietyof taking

two

losing

or

the value

him

by

the

reasons.

said

been

long

other, that it is nothingat all to the purpose.

might

also quote

peper's Herbal,
the time

is

killed

and

keeping Time,

is, that all this has

of them

We

Time

might expatiatelargelyabout

we

Time,

ago

that

down,

Irishman

question whether

Then

One

had

have

we

ill-used personage

Time, is the essential characteristic

forelock

it is capable

complains.

never

of

said,

used.

In the second,

the last

be

may

in which

senses

to treat

eater.

great

very

deal better

proper

great deal

very

observe

to

think

forte
pianodoctors

breathing to

place we

In the first place,Time

occasion

of

analyze it a great

can

In this

can.

147

GRAMMAR.

tlie consideration

to

fiddle-makers

chemists, who

and

LATIN

from

Linnaeus

and

speak of, (although we

we

twigged by
it is

and

extensively from

the

reader,)

necessary

is

no

stuffing.
N

Jussieu

hope

plant

ingredient in

Dr.

Cul; but

it will be
less
neverthe-

grammatical

148

THE

Time

in

of

is marked

time

thus

foot

is the

that

animals,
There

of

certain

of which

two

or

more

of

observation

should

long feet,

are

feet, and
feet

cloven
"

an

old

well

be

loped
deve-

feet, to which

bumble
in

kinds

shall

we

feet, broad

short

the

of

case

certain

gentleman."

several

are

however,

taking

sumens,

purpose.

added
and

the

to

feet, splay feet, club

be

as

Short.

and

Long

placing together

feet

Ordinary

may

cing
pronoun-

pilula, a pill.

as

into

thus,

time, the organ

for

of the

measure

whist, it is divided

syllables,according
their

GRAMMAR,

is the

prosody

long time

short

LATIN

syllable.

Like
A

COMIC

of

Latin

notice

only

feet;

here,

spondees

and

dactyls.
A

spondee

is

foot of

syllables,as

two

infans,

infant.

an

dactyl is

foot of three
little

angel, porciilus,a

an

Scanning

rule.

is

measuring
tailor

by

your

To

scanning

"

there

syllables,as angeliis,

pig.

verse

by

the

as

are

you

sured
mea-

foot, according

belong

the

figures

to

called

Synaloepha, Ecthlipsis Synseresis, Diaeresis,

and

Caesura.

Synaloepha
of

next

word,
;

as

is the

before

cutting off

another

at

the

vowel

at

the

beginning

of

end

the

THE

Occlusis
I

evasi

ociills

off with

came

LATIN

COMIC

nasoqiie cruento

bunged

eyes

my

149

GRAMMAR.

and

up

bloody

nose.

We

have

here

strengthof
-But
are

no

been

and

cases

out

i in

an

evasi,

the

on

synaloepha.

heu

knocked

in which

record

on

off

cut

never

are

least

at

"

this

there

operation has

performed.

Ecthlipsisis
with

its vowel

vowel,

; the

the

letter

off

is cut

with

beginning

word

next

horrendum

h5rtis

We

as

as

Monstrum
vTmiis

often

as

saw

Informe

ingens

specta-

"

horrible, ugly, great

the

in

monster

gardens.
If every
what

bear

and

fine world

Synaeresis is
into

Stravit
Mad

humi

Juno

this would
the

kept

were

in

den

"

be.

contraction

of

syllables

two

alvearia, pronounced alvaria.

in

as

one,

boar

conferta

demens

threw

the

alvetiria .Juno
beehives

crowded

on

the

ground.

Hydrophobia occurringin
of

dog

would

Diaeresis
two,

as

is

be
the

evoluisse

by

dandies

and

queen

separation

to

of

evolvisse.
the

theatrical
N

from

bee

case
interesting

an

for

alluding probably

to

one

Thus

the

faculty.

syllable into
Ovid

padding system
artists.

the bite

says,

adopted

150

THE

COMIC

Debuerant

Caesura

at

the

of

Intent

inhians

the

Of
Should
of
is

no

one

us

to

wiser

be

The

than

make

are

ancient

and

probably

the

at

were

it behoveth

so

not

taught

to

pentameters.
of six feet.

six feet

least

Avhy

reason

it behoveth

As

commonly

are

consists

verse

can

we

Grammar.

Eton

the

poets, all

law.

the

hexameters

heroes

he

of every

account

an

get it.

boys

hexameter

An

for
Latin

may

which

verses

lo!

fowls)

the

Verses.

of

the

than

wiser

be

to

alas

deserit

en,

(of

here

by
he

long

made

wings.

seek

wish

we

"

moUes,

Kinds

used

verse

not

as

tender

one

any

spindles.

their

syllableis

breasts

the

perfect foot (though

short

"

the

upon

deserts

say

word,

Pectoribiis

kind

after

TagHoni's), a

end

siios

unwound

have

to

is when

hke

one

evoluisse

fusos

They ought

GRAMMAR.

LATIN

it is also

As
this

high,

called

the
is

heroic

an

A-erse.

dactyl, the
either

spondee

dactyls or spondees

ObstantI
Sambo
The

sixth

pluvils venit
came

with

fifth foot also

of

this kind

fifth foot in

The

verse

; the

other

should

be

feet may

be

as

cum

tegmine

Sambo

his Macintosh.

is sometimes

spondee,

as

THE

LATIN

COMIC

Claviger Alcldes,

151

GRAMMAR.

Jovis

magnum

incrementum.

Hercules, king of clubs, great offspringof Jupiter.

The

syllable of

last

is

verse

every

common

affair.

elegiac,lack-a-daisical, or pentameter

An

of four

consists
Avhich

is

the

and

placed
other

first feet

last

two

Res

feel

We

two

long syllables,one

the

second

of

end

the

third

and

foot,

The

verse.

dactyls, spondees,

two

both

or

infellx, plenaque fraudis

unlucky affair, and

an

amor

the

full of

humbug.

compelled, notwithstanding what

make

to

in

contained

of

always dactyls,as

said,

before

the

be

are

is

and

between

at

may

est

Love

feet

verse,

the

additions

few

been
is

what

to

with

Grammar

Eton

has

respect

to

verses.

rhyt-hm of

The

Latin

verses

may

be

easilylearned

by practising(out of school),exercises
of

the

on

ciple
prin-

examples following

the

"

didle, dl diim, diiin diim, deedledy, dcedle

Diim

de, diim

dum

didle, dfim

Diim

dum,

de, deedledy, deedledy,

diim.
N.
would
Latin

B.
not

The

been

have

but

Grammar,

readings of it,
to

following familiar

posterity.

we

admitted

that there

wished

to

piece
into

being

transmit

of

the

many
the

poetry
Comic
various

right one

152

THE

Patres

LATIN

COMIC

GRAMMAR.

took

conscripti
"

and

boat

went

Phi-

to

lippi.
Trumpeter
Stormum

qui

erat

unus

surgebat,

Omnes

boatum

et

drownerunt,

scarlet

coatum

overset

ebat,

"

quia swimaway

habebat,

potue-

non

runt,

Excipe

John

Periwig

tied up

the tail of

to

dead

pigHere, also, this poetical curiosity may

be

perhaps

properly introduced.
Conturbabantur

Constantinopolitani,

Innumerabilibus

Of

Quantity

the

There

is

in like

and

The
1.

vowel

fat, Ingens,
A

next,

The

two

in

the

great

vowel
a

mouth
Mon-

positions in

ing
danc-

word,

word

same

the

Ajax,

coming
and

consonants,

before

another

"

name

one

at

the

of

or

before

as

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the

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following vowels

double

end

the

positions in Prosody.

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of

river

solhcitudinibus.

sum

quam

bigger boy

syllablesjor,

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at

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two

the
the

as

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brought the

persons

153

GRAMMAR.

seldom,

placed

beginning of
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spoilsfrom

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always

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genitive cases

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alius

where

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is made

long

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faciei,of

nose,
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face.

has

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fifth declension

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common

i and

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of

as

memory.

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short

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words

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any
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nurse

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in Greek

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goddess

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first

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has

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rich

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heavenly,

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clothes.

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are

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assigned the
derived

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quantity

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155

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trouble

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the

student

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to

follow

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words,

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By

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though

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157

GRAMMAR.

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and

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all

not

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we

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are

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LATIN

COMIC

words

GRAMMAR.

long

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and

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and

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also, so

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the

ends

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word
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pass

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all,

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as

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words

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among

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also

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vestment

as

Modo

tanto,

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long,

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you

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nominatives

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161

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