An introduction to ecclesiastical Latin

CONTENTS THE ORIGIN AND CHARACTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL LATIN 1 SYNTAX SENTENCES 8 NOUNS 10 PRONOUNS 26 VERBS 34 Mood 34 Tense 35 Voice 43 THE IMPERATIVE MOOD: THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD IN PRINCIPAL CLAUSES 43 NOUN CLAUSES: 46 The distinction between different senses of the Same Word 46 The Infinitive Mood and its equivalents 48 The Infinitive or its equivalents used as the subject or complement of a verb 54 The Infinitive or its equivalents used to complete The Meaning Of Certain Verbs 59 The Infinitive or its equivalents used as the object Of A Verb 60 Dependent statements 61 Dependent commands 66 Dependent questions 68 Noun clauses in apposition to a noun or pronoun 69 ADJECTIVAL CLAUSES 71 ADVERBIAL CLAUSES 74 Clauses of time 74 Clauses of place 77 Clauses of cause 78 Clauses of purpose 79 Clauses of consequence 81 Clauses of concession 82 Clauses of condition 83 Clauses of comparison 87 PARTICIPLES 88 GERUND, GERUNDIVE AND SUPINE 92 QUESTIONS 97 ADJECTIVES 98 PREPOSITIONS 100 EXTRACTS FROM ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS Perpetua: Visiones 114 Cyprian: Jesus Christus patientiae exemplar 117 Quid est voluntas Dei? 119 Quare Justus cum Christo esse desiderat 119 De defectu fidei in tribulatione 120 Quod filii Dei Patri similes esse debent 121 Ambrose: De judicio Domini in Arianos 123 Jerome: Somnium Hieronymi 126 De vita clericorum 127 Augustine: De miseriis Augustini in pueritia 132 Oratio pro Monnica matre sua 134 Bede: De vita Beati Papae Gregorii 136 De adventu Augustini ad praedicandum genti Anglorum 139 De colloquio Augustini cum episcopis Brittonum 142 Adamnan: De vita et transitu ad Dominum Sancti COLUMBAE 144 Thomas Aquinas: Debono fidei 149 De fructibus Incarnationis 152 Quare orare debemus ut fiat voluntas Dei 153 Thomas a Kempis : Qualiter homo desolatus se debet in manus Dei offerre 154 INDEX OF TEXTS QUOTED 157 Digitized by Google.
"Extracts from ecclesiastical writers": p. [114]-156