Januæ clavis: or, Lilly's syntax explained its elegancy from good authors cleared, its fundamentals compared with the Accidence, and the rules thereof more fitted to the capacity of children. By Jonathan Banks.

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Januæ clavis: or, Lilly's syntax explained its elegancy from good authors cleared, its fundamentals compared with the Accidence, and the rules thereof more fitted to the capacity of children. By Jonathan Banks.

Author

Banks, Jonathan.

Publication

London :: printed for the author, and are to be sold by Benjamin Clarke in George-Yard in Lumbard-Street,

anno Dom. 1679.

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Subject terms

Lily, William, 1468?-1522. -- Shorte introduction to grammar -- Early works to 1800.

Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.

Latin language -- Study and teaching -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• General Directions for making Latin.
• JANƲAE CLAVIS, OR, LILLY'S SYNTAX, &c.
  • The First Concord.
  • The third Concord.
  • Government.
  • Signs of Cases.
  • To, or For, before a Noun.
  • Words having no Proper Sign.
  • Rules for more Elegant Latin, ac∣cording to the Accidence and Grammar.
  • An Explanation of some Rules in the Grammar, wherein there remains some difficulty, either through variation of Government; or because the Verbs cannot be known without enumeration, and so consequently their Regimen can∣not be sufficiently cleared. And first of,