BY ALEXANDER ADAM, LL. D.
Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.

REVISED AND ABRIDGED BY EBENEZER FITCH, D. D. PRESIDENT OF WILLIAMS' COLLEGE.

RECOMMENDED BY THE TRUSTEES OF SAID COLLEGE, TO BE USED BY THOSE WHO ARE INTENded for

THAT SEMINARY.

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BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Fifteenth day of June, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM S. PARKER and PELLATIAH BLISS, of the faid District, have depofited in this office the title of a Book the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"The RUDIMENTS OF LATIN GRAMMAR. By Alexander Adam, LL. D. Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. Revised and Abridged by Ebenezer Fitch, D. D. Prefident of Williams' College. Recommended by the Trustees of faid college to be ufed by those who are intended for that feminary."

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FROM THE AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

HE materials of this Grammar are collected from the beft Grammarians, chiefly from Mr. Ruddiman. In this edition there are feveral improvements. The Syntax is greatly enlarged, by the addition of many useful obfervations and examples; and particularly by a full explanation of the different meaning and conftruction of Verbs and Prepositions, and of those phrases which occasion moft difficulty to learners, collected from the Claffics, and from the best writers on Latinity.

By the natural divifion of words and fentences into Simple and Compound, no rule or example is introduced in Syntax or Profody, till the learner is properly prepared, by what goes before, to understand it; which is not the cafe in the Latin Grammars commonly used: where, not to mention other inftances, the conftruction of the Relative, which requires a previous acquaintance with most of the other rules of conftruction, is placed near the beginning of Syntax; and, what appears still more prepofterous, in Profody, the rules concerning the quantity of compounds are placed before thofe concerning the quantity of fimple words. These improprieties in arrangement occafion greater inconvenience to learners than is generally imagined.

After the Syntax, there is a brief account and explanation of the various Tropes and Figures of words and of thought, which occur in the Claffics, compiled from the most approved authors, chiefly from Quinctilian, and Marfais fur les Tropes.

The greatest care has every where been taken, to make the tranflation of Latin words and phrases fubfervient to the knowledge of English. Thefe, and feveral other particulars not mentioned, it is hoped, will be found to be improvements of fome importance in the plan of Education.

ADVERTISEMENT

OF THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF WILLIAMS'
COLLEGE.

THE inconvenience and difadvantage experienced both by inftructors and students, from the ufe of different Latin Grammars, render it highly expedient to establish a uniformity in this College. Adam's Latin Grammar, which by very good judges, is confidered as the best and most complete Grammar of the Latin Language, has for feveral years been generally used in this feminary. But the English part of this Grammar, which very confiderably increafes its fize and price, is found by experience to be not only useless but very inconvenient to the ftudent and inftructor. An Abridgment of this Grammar having been fhown to us, in which the English part, and other useless parts are omitted, we hereby recommend this cheap, abridged and more convenient Edition to all ftudents who expect to refort to this College for education, and direct that all who are hereafter admitted as members of this feminary ufe it in their claffical exercises.

Williamflown, Dec. 30, 1805,