Fabulae in Usum Scholarum

Title

en_US Fabulae in Usum Scholarum

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: Latin

en_US Tertia editio

en_US Selectae Opera et Studio Georgii Whitaker, A.M.

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:39:17Z

en_US 2005-07

en_US 1798

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:39:17Z

Date Issued

en_US 1798

Abstract

en_US Here are one hundred and thirty-two prose fables in Latin. The book is meant as a device for teaching Latin. The author devotes a page to Properties of the Parts of Speech and another to Rules for Construing--both in English--before the fables commence. There are footnotes just below each fable text: rather than giving vocabulary equivalents, they seem to aim at coaching students on how to understand specific expressions. Some texts, like CXII and CXIII, are indented but do not seem to me to be in verse. It is rather that the printer, for some reason, did not work to fill the columns as usual. The selection of fables seems thoroughly traditional. The last page of fables and the first of the AI (105-6) is missing its upper outside corner, with some loss of text from MSA. After the AI comes a postscript that offers a Construing and Parsing Index to some of the first Fables as an Exemplar (117-38). It walks through the first thirteen fables word by word. The book is in good condition for over two hundred years of life. I was lucky to find it on eBay!

Identifier

en_US 5660 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81178

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US Impensis B. Law: Prostant Venales Apud C. Law

en_US London

Subject

en_US PA8149 .F33 1798 See all items with this value

en_US Aesop and others See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole