Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition

463 Pages·2006·1.56 MB·English

by  J. F. Mountford

Bradley’s
ARNOLD
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Edited by J. F. Mountford
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BRADLEY’S ARNOLD
LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION
Edited and Revised
with an Appendix on Continuous Prose Composition
by
SIR JAMES MOUNTFORD
1938 David McKay Company, Inc. & Longmans, Green and Co.
2005 Edition
Foreword and Updates
Donald Sprague
Cover Design
Adam Phillip Velez
Typesetting
Dominic Roberti
Foreword, Revisions, Typography, Cover
© 2005 Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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Printed in the United States of America
2005
by printer name here
ISBN 0-86516-595-5
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Arnold, Thomas Kerchever, 1800-1853.
Bradley’s Arnold Latin prose composition / edited and revised with an
appendix on continuous prose composition by Sir James Mountford.-- 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes indexes.
Rev. ed. of Bradley’s Arnold, 1938.
ISBN 0-86516-595-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Latin language--Composition and exercises. 2. Latin language--
Grammar--Problems, exercises, etc. I. Mountford, J. F. (James Frederick),
b. 1897. II. Bradley, George Granville, 1821-1903. III. Bradley’s Arnold. IV.
Title.
PA2313.A76 2005
808’.0471--dc22
2004029648
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Foreword
Bring up the topic of Latin prose composition and Bradley’s Arnold is
the textbook most often mentioned in response. It’s an almost guaranteed
word association match!
Indeed, for generations of Latin students, Bradley’s Arnold Latin Prose
Composition served as the bible for rendering English into proper Latin.
Surf the internet today, and you’ll find that this classic continues as a key-
stone for scores of Latin programs in the United States and throughout the
English-speaking world.
Latin prose composition for the serious Latin student is a compelling
undertaking, one that many consider the sine qua non for really mastering
Latin. Some deem it the most effective means for internalizing Latin sen-
tence structure and developing a sophisticated understanding of Latin gram-
mar and syntax. The student who has personally tried to render English
prose into Latin may bring to Latin literature a far greater sensitivity, a
more profound appreciation, and a fuller depth of insight and understand-
ing.
Bradley’s Arnold is a comprehensive review of Latin grammar in the
service of Latin prose composition. Its explanations are precise and thor-
ough. Its lessons, complete with exercises for practice, lead the student to a
gradual mastery of the intricacies of Latin language production, moving
methodically from the fairly simple to the increasingly complex and
lengthy. The text culminates in a series of continuous prose passages added
when J. F. Mountford revised the text in 1938.
To follow in the footsteps of Mountford and Bradley in revising the
venerable Arnold was a singularly humbling experience. Thus, with due
reverence, I undertook the daunting task of maintaining the integrity of
Arnold’s text while updating it for the modern student. To that end, this new
edition offers a redesigned format, one easier on the eye and more user-
friendly. We have “opened up” the text through more generous spacing for
a less dense and more accessible text. Nomenclature like “indirect dis-
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