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.

About this Item

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.
Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms
Latin language -- Grammar.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50880.0001.001
Cite this Item
"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50880.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.

Pages

Of Verbs Defective.

VErbs called Inceptives ending in sco, borrow thir Preterperfect Tense from the Verb whereof they are deriv'd, as tepesco tepui from tepeo, ingemisco ingemui from ingemo; as also these Verbs, cerno to see, vidi from video, sido sedi from sedeo, fero tuli from tulo out of use, in the Supine

Page 35

latum, tollo sussuli sublatum from suffero.

These want the Preterperfect Tense.

Verbs ending in asco, as puerasco; in isco, as sa∣tisco; in urio, except parturio, osurio: these also, vergo, ambigo, ferio, furo, polleo, nideo, have no Pre∣terperfect Tense.

Contrary, these four, Odi, caepi, novi, memini, are found in the Preterperfect Tense only, and the Tenses thence deriv'd, as odi, oderam, oderim, odissem, odero, odisse, except memini, which hath memento mementote in the Imperative.

Others are defective both in Tense and Person, us Aio, ais, ait, Plur. aiunt. The Preterimperfect aiebam is intire. Imperative, ai. Potential, aia•…•…, aiat, Plur. •…•…iamus, aiant.

Ausim for ausus sim, ausis, ausit, Plur. ausint.

Salveo, salvebis, salve salveto, salvete salvetote, salvere.

Ave aveto, avete avetote.

Faxo, faxis, faxit, faxint.

Quaeso, Plur. quaesimus.

Infit, infiunt

Inquio or inquam, inquis inquit, Plur inquiunt. Inquibat, Cic Topic. inquisti, inquit. Future, in∣quies, inquiet Imperat. Inque inquito. Potent Inquia•…•….

Dor the first person Passive of do, and for before faris or fare in the Indicative, are not read, nor d•…•… or fer in the Potential.

Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem? Please contact us.