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Pretty Lessons in Verse

for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts

Coleridge, Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)

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LESSONS IN LATIN.

[Hearing is audītus]

THE LOST SPOON AND FORK.

[Aqua is water, and unda a wave]

[Mare means the sea]

[The top of a tree cacūmen is called]

[Virga's a rod, flagellum a whip]

[Cæna is supper, and prandium dinner]

[An army is exercĭtus—it causes great dismay]

[An army is exercĭtus]

[Trumpeter's tubĭcen, piper tibīcen]

[Tibia's a flute, which is very sweet]

[A Town is called oppĭdum, urbs is a city]

[Domus means a house, aula means a hall]

[Caudex, and codex, and stirps, all three]

[Cortex means the bark, fructus means the fruit]

[A shrub is called frutex, and arbor's a tree]

[Hoar frost is pruīna, and pluvia's rain]

[A father's brother, mother's brother, are not called the same]

PAIN AND PUNISHMENT.

WORDS ALIKE AND UNLIKE.

[Patĕra's a goblet]

PRICKLES AND THORNS.

[Ovis means a sheep]

[Lupus means a wolf]

THE DECLENSIONS.

THE FIVE DECLENSIONS.

THE WINDS, and WHERE THEY COME FROM.

ANIMALS IN LATIN.

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[Caudex, and codex, and stirps, all three]

Caudex , and codex, and stirps, all three
Mean the great trunk or stem of a tree,
Which with its head and its limbs you see.
Truncus means nought but the stock or trunk,
Stripp'd of its boughs, beheaded and shrunk,
Shaven and shorn like any old monk.