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Preface
Table of Contents
Sections 1-179: Sounds
Sections 180-396: Formation
Sections 397-712: Inflection of Nouns
Sections 713-1022: Inflection ofVerbs
Sections 1023-1713: Sentences
Sections 1714-2299: Complex Sentences
Sections 2300-2745: Appendix
Index of Subjects
Index of Latin Words
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REVISED EDITION
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Copyright, 1898, 1903, by Gardiner M. Lane and LouisaVan Rensselaer.
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George Martin Lane died on thethirtieth of June, 1897. His Latin Grammar, in the preparation ofwhich he had been engaged, during the intervals of teaching in HarvardUniversity, for nearly thirty years, was at that time approachingcompletion. The first two hundred and ninety-one pages had beenstereotyped; the pages immediately following, on the RelativeSentence and the Conjunctive Particle Sentence throughquod and quia (pages 292-302), together with the chapteron the Infinitive (pages 374-386), were ready for stereotyping;of the remainder of the book, pages 303-373 and 387-436 were in the formof a first draught; finally, he had received a few weeks before hisdeath, but had never examined, the manuscript of the chapter onVersification (pages 442-485), written at his invitation by hisformer pupil, Dr. Herman W. Hayley, now of Wesleyan University.
It was found that my dear and honoured master had left a writtenrequest that his work should be completed by me, in consultation withhis colleagues, Professors Frederic De Forest Allen and Clement LawrenceSmith. A month had scarcely passed when scholars everywhere hadanother heavy loss to mourn in the sudden death of Professor Allen.Almost immediately afterwards,