Humez Alexander, Humez Nicholas. Latin for People: Latina Pro Populo
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LATINA
PRO
POPULO
ALEXAND
RI
HUMEZ
PARVULA
FUSCAQUE
SOCIETAS
BOSTONIA I
NOVUM
EBORACUM I
TORONTO
I \...ONDINIUM
,
LATIN
FOR
PEOPLE
NICHOLAS
HUMEZ
LITILE, BROWN AND COMPANY
BOSTON I NEW YORK I TORONTO I
LONDON
COPYRIGHT C
1976
BY
PAUL ALEXANDER
HUMU
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CataJoalallD Publlcadoa Data
Humez,
Alexander.
Latin for people - Latina
pro populo.
I.
Latin
language-Grammar-19SO-
I.
Humez,
Nicholas,joint author.
II.
Title.
III.
Title: Latina pro populo.
PAl087.H82 478'.2'421 76-2436
ISBN 0-316-38149-7
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Published simultaneously in Canada
by Uttle, Brown
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Company (Canada)
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PRINTED
IN
THE
UNITED
STATES
OF
AMERICA
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For
Hilda
Allen,
DULCE LUMEN LUXQUE FACTI
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Preface: Comfortable Words (and Others) ix
Chapter
I:
Sling and Stone: The Latin Language
So
Far 3
Chapter II: Nouns to Nouns 20
Chapter III: Evens and Ends
30
Chapter IV: A Couple
of
Numbers. A Number
of
Nouns 38
Chapter V: Questions and Answers: The Logic
of
the
Talking Bear 50
Chapter VI: Pronouns: Yours. Mine, and Ours 60
Chapter VII: Mood
Music
69
Chapter VIII: The Future 79
Chapter IX: Demonstrative Pronouns: This, That, and
the Others 88
Chapter X: Leading Questions, Complex Sentences or,
Before the Law 96
Chapter
XI:
Mutatfs Mutandfs or, The Expanding
Woodwork 106
Chapter XII: Passives and Passive-Aggressives 114
Chapter XIII· The Long and the Short
of
It
121
The Trots
131
Ex Post Facto or, What
to
Do Until Volume
II
Arrives
in the
Mail
143
Synopsis
of
the Grammar 146
Glossary: Latin-English 164
English-Latin 182
Acknowledgments
205
Index 207
PREFACE
Comfortable
Words
(and
Others)
There is really
no
fast and easy way
to
learn a language:
the
feast is
simply
too
vast and
too
varied
to
be completely digested
in
anything
less than a full lifetime, even
by
the
most efficient metabolism.
On
the other hand,
it
isn't always necessary
to
make away with the
whole spread
to
feel some measure
of
pleasant satisfaction. Besides,
there is always more.
This book is intended as a course in Latin for
the
nibbler and
the glutton alike: it may be read in considerably less than a lifetime
ix
and with infinitely less effort, and from it you may gain a good feel
for the Latin language in the variety
of
its natural settings, past and
present.
A few words about the preparation
of
Latin for People. In it
we
have sought
to
present the fundamentals
of
Classical Latin grammar
together with some idea
of
the ways in which the language could
actually be used as a tool for shaping reality. What else, after all, is a
language for? Each
of
the following chapters therefore tells you
something about the nuts and bolts
of
Latin grammar, how they
may be put together and taken apart again, and
to
what ends. Exer-
cises in
both
Latin and English are included for readers who may
wish to
put
anything into practice, that being the only sure way
of
definitively getting the best
of
a language. The exercises
of
each
chapter are preceded by a list
of
the vocabulary in order
of
appear-
ance. At the end
of
the book appear the
trots
(as basic a part
of
the
history
of
Latin as the first declension
or
Caesar's Gallic'
Wars),
a
general Glossary and Synopsis
of
the Grammar, and a
few
sugges-
tions
as
to where
to
go for seconds.