Selections from Viri Romae

PREFACE

[Decoration]

Upon the reviving perception of the true scope of Latin teaching has followed a return to some of the methods of former times, which, with all their faults, were yet imbued with the true spirit of the Classics. Since for many years the study of Latin lay in bondage to the spirit which regarded the language merely as a _corpus vile_ for grammatical dissecti...