Excerpt from A First Latin Book: Designed as a Manual of Progressive Exercises and Systematic Drill in the Elements of Latin and Introductory to Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War A teacher of experience has said: By a strange inversion we supply an advanced student with all the light he can have, but give a beginner, at best, a meagre abridgment of the same information. In this manual an attempt has been made to present solutions of some of the difficulties which beset the young student of Latin, and to prepare him for an intelligent study of Caesar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."