C. IVLII Caesaris De Bello Gallico Liber Quintus: Fifth Book of Caesar's Gallic War; With a Syntatical Commentary and Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Julius Caesar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 028298187X ISBN 13: 9780282981877

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from C. IVLII Caesaris De Bello Gallico Liber Quintus: Fifth Book of Caesar's Gallic War; With a Syntatical Commentary and Explanatory Notes

The Memoirs of Caesar have long been used and will long continue to be used as an introduction to the knowledge of Latin. The purity of style, the absence of affectation, the masculine contempt of mere orna ment, the military exactness of expression, the keen insight into char acter and situation, the effective side-strokes which show that the officer was not lost in the strategist nor the politician in the statesman, all these things commend Caesar's writings to more advanced students, but it is to be feared that the grammatical difficulties of the first books of the Gallic War prevent the majority of beginners from appreciating the merits of the author. No one but an experienced teacher of boys can tell how bewildering oratio obliqua is at first, but more mature scholars may learn to measure the trouble approximately by comparing the divergent resolu tions of audio obliqua in commentaries and grammars. The very first book seems to me miserably hard for a young boy. And my friend Professor maupin, who at my request has estimated the amount of oratio obliqua in that book, tells me that it constitutes no less than forty per cent. Of the whole. The fifth book, on the other hand, is deservedly a favorite with pupils and teachers alike, both for the interest of its themes and the greater ease of its style and it has been thought that a separate edition of my syntactical commentary might find wider usefulness than could be expected for the Latin Reader in which that commentary first appeared. Prepared originally as a drill-book in Latin Syntax, this edition does not require the use of any special grammar, all the syntactical rules involved being stated with as much conciseness as is consistent with clearness.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 028298187X
• ISBN 13: 9780282981877
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 113