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Excerpt from A Short Historical Latin Grammar
Teachers of Latin Grammar have for a long time felt the need of a book which will exhibit the historical development of Latin Accidence and explain the anomalies of Latin Declension and Conjugation, which will explain, for example, how itineris became the Genitive of iter, how volo, vis, vult differ from lego, legis, legit, why the Comparative of magnificus should be magnificentior, why the Preposition circum should have a by-form circa. In this Short Historical Latin Grammar, designed for the Universities and the Higher Forms of Schools, I have tried to present this information in an intelligible and, if possible, interesting form. While making full use of the discoveries of Comparative Philology, which have in recent years added so much to our knowledge of Latin, I have avoided the technical vocabulary of that science, and in quoting parallels to Latin words have restricted myself to the Greek, to the exclusion of Sanscrit, Gothic, and the other Indo-European languages.
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