A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges

A masterwork of classical pedagogy from the golden age of Latin instruction. Lane's grammar, completed posthumously by colleagues, represents the culmination of 19th-century American classical education at its most rigorous and refined. The text is organized with elegant clarity: the first half dissects Latin words themselves, sounds, forms, inflections, the architecture of individual parts of speech, while the second half reveals how these elements combine into the syntactical structures that made Cicero and Virgil masters of prose and verse. Lane drew his examples directly from the great classical authors, grounding every rule in authentic usage rather than manufactured sentences. What distinguishes this volume from modern textbooks is its assumption that students could handle genuine complexity without oversimplification. For anyone studying Latin, teaching Latin, or simply curious about how a previous generation approached the language, this grammar offers both a practical reference and a window into a more demanding, more elegant era of classical scholarship.