Excerpt from Kühner's Latin Grammar: With Exercises, Latin Reader and Vocabularies, Translated and Remodelled As the elementary character still prevails in the Etymo logy, I have retained the poetical rules for gender, on the ground of their acknowledged utility, whatever may be said of them on the score of taste. A verse may be usqfld which is a mere doggerel, as is proved by many mnemonic verses of this kind in our own language, which we could hardly live without. For instance, that which informs us of the number of days in each month: flirty days hath September, etc. Be sides, in the present case, as an alphabetical list of the except ed words is always given in connection with the poetic rules, no one can complain, since, if he is not fond of poetry he can taketothe prose. At the same time, as itwas desirablethat the book should be kept within moderate limits, the principles in the syntax are expressed as briefly as possible, and are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.