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[Transcriber's Notes:
i) the text mixes 'littera' and 'līttera' (short/long 'i').
   Dictionaries generally consider 'littera' as more correct.
ii) it states 'lēctus, ī, m.' (=bed) in the original, but 'lĕctus' is correct.
    NB: the adjective 'lēctus, a, um' is indeed with 'long e'.
iii) it considers the Nom./Acc.Plural ending of the
     3rd declension/imparisyllabica ("-es", e.g. leōn-es) as short,
     whereas is it usually considered Grammars as long,
     cf. Allen & Greenough, New Latin Grammar, §§55ff.]

LINGUA LATĪNA
PRĪMUS ANNUS

BY W. L. PAINE
AND
C. L. MAINWARING

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1912

PREFACE

THE book is the result of three years' experience in
teaching Latin on the Direct Method, during which
time we have used the proofs in various forms. In
a method, whose essential is spontaneity, it is intended
rather to be suggestive—to present one line along
which the principles of this method can be followed,
and it must rest with the individual teacher to modify
it, as his experience leads him. Further, it is still in
an experimental stage, and we shall be most happy to
receive suggestions both on the general scheme and on
the details of the book, from teachers using it. In
scope it includes practically all constructions which do
not involve the Subjunctive Mood or Oratio Obliqua,
and can be done in a year by