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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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PAIN AND PUNISHMENT.

Scutĭca 's a scourge, verber is a lash:
Dread the rising surge, which doth fiercely dash.
Virga is a rod, ictus is a stroke;
Vulnus is a wound, which is not a joke.
Should the folks inquire, Herbert soon could tell 'em
That the horrid whip once was called flagellum.