By Henry John 1830-1915 Roby
Henry John Roby (1830-1915) used to be a Cambridge-educated classicist whose influential occupation integrated classes as a schoolmaster, professor of Roman legislation, businessman, academic reformer and Member of Parliament. His two-volume Grammar of the Latin Language finds his cutting edge, descriptive method of grammar, which situates thorough research of the Latin language in the historic context of the writings themselves, or, as Roby places it, surroundings 'example above principle' with a purpose to placed grammar 'in the correct mild, as an account of what males do say, now not a conception of what they need to say'. Drawing examples from the corpus of classical writings courting from circa two hundred BCE. to one hundred twenty CE; this moment quantity (1875) is dedicated to syntax, together with an entire research of instances, stressful, and temper. a piece of outstanding breadth and intensity, Roby's publication continues to be a vital source for either historic linguistics and the learn of Latin grammar.
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Liv. 1 41 ; 2. 23 ; 4- 12 ; 5- 45 ! 4; ib. 22; Val. M. 6. 2 •§ 4 ; 9. 1 § 8 ; Curt. 6. 11 § 4 ; Tac. Agr. 31; [In Liv. 1. 7 ludibrio fratris we have probably ablative]; habere Plaut. Cas. 3. 13; Epid. 5. 2. «. 396 ; 782 ; Ter. Hec. 149 ; 526 ; Lucr. 5. /. 34 ; Liv. 28. 40 ; Sen. Dial. 14; [opponi Corn. 4. 3. 9 probably belongs to § 1163; retentus Plin. Ep. 8. 14 § 8 to § H42-] ludificatui 'sport'; habere Plaut. Pan. 5. 4. 2 ex conj. luxurise 'a luxury'; esse Sail. J. 89. maculae 'a stain'; esse Corn.
R. 9. 24 § 15 ; Sen. O w . 1. 3 ; Quint. 6. 1. 12; Suet. Gram. 24; Just. 28. 2 (minori); duoere C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 11. 10; haberi Just. 43. 3. gratulationi 'a voice of congratulation'; esse C. Mur. 5, following adjumento and solacio. honori 'an honour'; esse Plaut. Epid. 1. 1. 31: Corn. 4. 13 ; Cic. Or. 1. 8 ; ib. 25 (magno); Plane. 10 bis; Mil. 3; ; Phil. ; Lisl. 19 ; Off. 17 (magno); ib. (summo); 3. 20 (summo); iv7OT. 5. 2 (summo); ^ « . 3. 22 ; 11. 3 ; ap. Rutil. Lup. 1. 3 (honoris. ); Cass.
115 § 1 1 ; Fronto p. 235 Naber; ducere 'consider' PI. Amph. 492; Scip. Mm. ap. Macr. Sat. 3. 147; haberi Sail. C. 12. 1 Madvig (as I have since seen) makes the same correction, Adv. ii. 617. d2 lii PREFACE : OBSERVATIONS ON BOOK IV. propugnaculo ' a bulwark'; esae Cic. Verr. 5. 34. e. ' a thing to be ashamed o f ; ease Hor. Od. 2. 4. 1 ; A. P. 406; Sulp. ap. Tibull. 4. 7- 1; O v - Am3. 14. 21; Met. 5. 526 ; 7. 687 ; Liv. 24. 24 ; 34. 58 § 7 5 40. 15 § 6 ; Val. M. 9. 5. ext. 1; Tac. A. 2. 37 ; 4.