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Selections from Viri Romae

C. F. L'Homond

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  • Book language: English
  • 421 pages

Viri Romae is a collection of short Latin biographies of notable figures from Roman history, compiled by C. F. L'Homond as a school reader. This edition presents selections with notes, exercises, and vocabulary. It offers an accessible introduction to Latin prose and Roman history.

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There is no Greek in this book.

For this e-text, the Selections are given twice, in “stripped” and as-printed form. In the stripped form, all footnote anchors, page and line numbers have been omitted, along with macrons, illustrations and sidenotes, leaving only the original Viri Romae text.

The book as printed includes several hundred cross-references to footnotes identified by page number, and to text passages identified by line number. Line numbers (by multiples of 5) are shown in the left margin; footnote numbering starts from 1 on each page. Words split across line or page breaks may appear on either the first or second line, depending on space.

Contents

Introduction

Viri Romae (“stripped” text)

Viri Romae (as printed)

Exercises

Vocabulary

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The map of the Mediterranean area, shown here at the end of the

Exercises, was printed as a foldout facing page 68 (middle of selection

XXIII).

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SELECTIONS
FROM
VIRI ROMAE
EDITED BY
ROBERT ARROWSMITH, Pƒ.D.
LATE PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND LATIN, TEACHERS COLLEGE
AND
CHARLES KNAPP, Pƒ.D.
INSTRUCTOR IN LATIN, BARNARD COLLEGE
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NEW YORK ·:· CINCINNATI ·:· CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1896, œΏ
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY.
VIRI ROMAE.
W. P. 18

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Contents

  1. VIRI ROMAE
  2. Pearson’s Essentials of Latin for Beginners

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