Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton.

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Title: Accedence commenc't grammar, supply'd with sufficient rules for the use of such (younger or elder) as are desirous, without more trouble than needs to attain the Latin tongue the elder sort especially, with little teaching and their own industry / by John Milton.
Author: Milton, John, 1608-1674.
Publication: London :: Printed for S.S., and are to be sold by John Starkey ...,; 1669.
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The first Declension.

THe first is when the Genitive and Dative singular end in ae, &c. as in the Example following.

Singular.	Plural.
Nom. Voc. Abl. musa	Nom. Voc. musae
Gen. Dat. musae	Gen. musar um
Acc. musam	Dat. Abl. mus•…•…s.
	Acc. Musas

This one word familia joyn'd with pater, ma∣ter, filius, or filia, endeth the Genitive in as, a•…•… pater familias, but somtimes familiae: Dea, mu•…•…, equa, liberta, make the Dative and Ab•…•…ative plu∣ral in abus; filia and nata in is or abus.

The first Declension endeth alwayes in a, un∣less in some words deriv'd of the Greek: and is always of the Feminin Gender, except in names attributed to men, according to the ge∣neral Rule, or to Stars, as Cometo, Planeta.

Nounes, and especially proper Names deri∣ved of the Greek, have here three endings, as, es, e, and are declin'd in some of thir Cases after the Greek form. Aeneas, acc. Aenean, voc Aene•…•…. Anchises, acc. Anchisen, voc Anchise or Anchisa, •…•…bl. Anchise. Penelope, Penelopes, Penelope, Penelopen, voc. abl. Penelope. Somtimes following the La∣tin, as Marsya, Philocteta, for as and es; Philocte∣tam, Eriphylam, for an and en. Cic.