BY JOHN D. OGILBY, PRINCIPAL OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, NEW-YORK. PART FIRST, FROM THE SEVENTH GERMAN EDITION. EIGHTH NEW YORK EDITION. ED NEW YORK: W. E. DEAN, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, 2 ANN-STREET. ENTERED, According to the Act of Congress, in the year 1830, by WILLIAM E. DEAN, In the Clerk's office of the Southern District of NEW YORK. STEREOTYPED BY FRANCIS F. RIPLEY, NEW YORK. ΤΟ THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM A. DUER, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THIS LITTLE WORK IS INSCRIBED AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT FOR DISTINGUISHED TALENTS AND UNBLEMISHED INTEGRITY. THE Latin Reader, now offered to the public, forms part of a work well known in Germany, under the title of "Lateinisches Elementarbuch zum öffentlichen und Privat-Gebrauche von Friedrich Jacobs und Friedrich Wilhelm Döring." The German edition consists of six parts, of which the 1st and 2nd are comprised in this volume. The 3rd contains extracts from Caesar, Curtius Rufus, Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus; the 4th is made up of excerpts from Cicero's Epistles and Orations; the 5th is composed of selections from Ovid, Martial, and the Anthologia Latina; and the 6th embraces parts of Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Seneca. As this little book is intended merely to give the learner such an acquaintance with the fundamental principles of the Latin language as will enable him to enter with advantage upon the study of the preparatory course for our College, it has been deemed advisable to omit the contents of the last four volumes. A part of them is contained in the course for entrance, and the rest is too difficult for mere beginners. It may be necessary here to state the reason for publishing a New York edition, when one has already been issued from the Boston press. It will be readily acknowledged, that if the assistance of notes is necessary to the learner in Germany, where the advantages in classical instruction are incomparably greater than in our country, they are much more requisite to the American pupil. It has been the object of the editor, therefore, to supply this deficiency in the previous American editions. Most of the Notes have been translated from the German; others have been supplied, which the superior state of instruction on the Continent would render unnecessary there. It is hoped that this little work may be found serviceable to those who use it, and contribute in some degree to the advancement of sound elementary education. Grammar School, Columbia College. New York, Jan. 1830. |