To write onLatin Prose Compositionat almost any stage is a difficult task, for the scope is so wide as to make it hard to decide what to include and what to omit. The present book a concise introduction to the discipline. Intended for Advanced Level students, and the subject-matter deals with those aspects of the subject as seem likely to be met with at this stage.
All the passages have been taken from original sources.
A.H. Nash-Williamsis the author of many books on Greek and Latin prose composition including
Advanced Latin Prose Composition, and
Advanced Level Latin Prose; Introduction to Continuous Greek Prose Compositionand
The spirit of Greece: An intermediate Greek reader.CONTENTS
I CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER - PARTICIPLES EXPRESSIONS OF TIME AND DISTANCE - PROPER
NAMES - CONNECTION
EXERCISES I-8
II. IDIOM MEANING - ABSTRACTS- NECESSARY FACTS - MODERNISMS
EXERCISES 9-22
III. THE WORD res-MEANING AND STYLE HISTORIC INFINITIVE NEGATIVES RELATIVE PRONOUN-THE WORD quidem THE WORD without-idcirco and ideout ... ita-cum
EXERCISES 23-64
IV. Oratio Obliqua IN LATIN AND ENGLISH INDIRECT STATEMENT - INDIRECT QUESTION AND COMMAND-SUBORDINATE CLAUSES-PRONOUNS AND ADVERBS
EXERCISES 65-80
V. PASSAGES FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS
EXERCISES 8I-I20