By G. Lodge, B. L. Gildersleeve

Description

Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar is the classic, comprehensive review of etymology, Latin grammar and syntax, and prosody. Favored by many students and teachers, Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar was enhanced in 1997 with a new foreword and comprehensive bibliography.

In the words of Basil L. Gildersleeve, “Rightly interpreted, grammar is the culmination of philological study, and not its rudiment . . . No study of literature can yield its highest result without the close study of language, and consequently the close study of grammar.”

Special Features

• Enlarged print for easier reading
• New foreword on Basil L. Gildersleeve by Ward W. Briggs, Jr.
• Comprehensive, 47-page bibliography (to 1997) by William E. Wycislo
• Latin grammar explained precisely and thoroughly
• Examples from Latin prose and poetry with citations throughout
• Appendices on the Roman Calendar, Roman Weights and Measures, Roman Money, Roman Names
• Indices of Verbs and General Index

Comments and Reviews

Compare his work with any other treatise hitherto in use, and its superiority will be manifest.

— Southern Review

. . . your wonderful rendition of Gildersleeve and Lodge arrived here and was a total joy, satisfaction and consolation to peruse and review. You may be interested to know that this reference (never teaching!!) instrument is the only one I have ever recommended to Latin scholars around us here in Rome. It is the only one which our higher-class “summer schoolers” must have in school every day and which our advanced, annual students must have at hand.

While the added bibliography was really overwhelming, I found the introductory presentation of the person, condition and ideals of Mr. Gildersleeve (together with his picture) both illuminating and encouraging to us all.

. . . Now your expanded edition is only another reason for me to insist that all advanced students have this good, solid book nearby for consultation and private study.

— Fr. Reginald OCD
Gregorian University

Author Bio

Basil L. Gildersleeve graduated third in his class at Princeton in 1849 and was one of the first Americans to receive a PhD from Göttingen (1853). After appointment to the University of Virginia in 1856 Gildersleeve began to write a Greek syntax developing his own system of categories fleshed out with his own examples. In 1867, Charles B. Richardson published Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar. The Grammar was revised in 1872 under the University Publishing Company as a part of the Gildersleeve Latin Series, which began with A Latin Exercise Book (1871) and ended with A Latin Primer (1875). In 1892 the third edition of the Grammar appeared, revised and enlarged by Gonzalez Lodge (1863–1942).