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Ora Maritima A Latin Story for Beginners With Grammar and Exercises by E. A. Sonnenschein, D. Litt., Oxon. Emeritus Professor of Latin and Greek University of Birmingham And an Introduction by Margaret Y, Henry, Ph. D. Franklin K. Lane High School, Brooklyn, New York Natura nonfacit saltum atfein gorfc THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1927 All rights reserved, PRINTED IN THE TTNITED STATES OF AMERICA Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1927. J S. Gushing Co Berwick Smith Co. Norwood, Mass, U. S. A. INTRODUCTION Progressive teachers of Latin will find Ora Mamtima, in its American edition, a book perfectly adapted to the needs of their first-year classes. We all agree that power to read Latin is the primary objective of our teaching most of us agree, too, that as we learn any game not by studying the rules but by playing it, so we learn to read by reading. Faciendo discimus is a maxim of universal application. Teachers of modern languages have long had this advantage over us a Reader is part of the equipment of even the youngest classes in those languages. Teachers of Latin, mean while, have plodded along with their classes, teaching declensions and conjugations in formidable columns, illustrating their use merely by groups of barren detached sentences, destitute of interest for child or adult. No wonder that the bright enthusiastic faces coming before us in September have often turned indifferent and bored by December Until very recently there has been a dearth of reading matter in simple Latin, at least for use in American schools. The extant Latin authors did not write for children. Modern Latin, even that written especially vi INTRODUCTION for school children, has not been carefully gradedin difficulty. And a reading lesson that presents too many difficulties is more discouraging than no reading lesson at all. But in Ora Maritima the teacher will find a pleasant story sure to enlist interest, in the telling of which the vocabulary and length and complexity of the sentences are graded with almost mathematical precision. Thus the book may be used from the first week, or better, from the very first day the pupil begins the study of Latin. We have here the story of a young schoolboy spending the vacation with his uncle and aunt on the British coast near Dover. A large number of names for familiar objects and ideas are naturally introduced, e. g. aunt, cousin, country-house sea gull, which give vitality to the narrative. Much is told, valuable in itself as historical information, of the early Britons, of their towns, and of the Druids. On a mem orable day, the hero with his uncle and two friends makes a visit to the seashore near the point where CsBsar invaded Britain. This forms the introduction to a brief narration of the events of the Roman Conquest, illustrated with spirited drawings. Here, too, history is delightfully combined with talk of everyday things luncheon, the sudden rainstorm, the small brother who could not wait till the right time to eat his share of the cakes. The days excursion ends with a visit, such as would charm any boy, to a modern warship lying in the harbor. So our small Anthony goes home to supper and to dreams about men-o-war in the English Chan nel and yellow-haired Britons of long ago. INTRODUCTION vii The forms introduced in Or a Maritima are limited to those commonly taught in the first half-year nouns and adjectives of the first threedeclensions, the indica tive of the verb sum, and the indicative active of the first conjugation. Confining himself within these extremely narrow limits, the author has achieved an extraordinary degree of naturalness and grace. By means of the Preparation attached to each lesson, the last difficulty is smoothed away before the uncertain steps of the young reader of Latin...