42 Cambridge Compositions Greek and Latin, The Ultimate Latin Language Learning Pack
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//-->CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTIONBooks of enduring scholarly valueCambridgeThe city of Cambridge received its royal charter in 1201, having alreadybeen home to Britons, Romans and Anglo-Saxons for many centuries.Cambridge University was founded soon afterwards and celebrates itsoctocentenary in 2009. This series explores the history and influenceof Cambridge as a centre of science, learning, and discovery, itscontributions to national and global politics and culture, and itsinevitable controversies and scandals.Cambridge CompositionsOriginal composition in classical languages was an important andmuch admired skill in the Victorian education system. In publicschools and university Classics courses it was a key part of thecurriculum, not only teaching the structure of the ancient languagesthemselves, but also honing rhetorical skills. This 1899 anthologyof selections from English literature translated into Greek and Latinprose and verse includes contributions from a whole generation of lateVictorian classical scholars at Cambridge: Sir Richard ClaverhouseJebb and his successor as Regius Professor of Greek, Henry Jackson,James Adam, editor of Plato o, Samuel Butcher, founder of the EnglishClassical Association and President of the British Academy in 1909-10, a number of younger scholars and even one female lecturer. Thiswould have been a model volume for Victorian students and remainsuseful today for those wanting to improve both comprehension andcomposition in the classical languages.Cambridge University Press has long been a pioneer in the reissuingof out-of-print titles from its own backlist, producing digital reprintsof books that are still sought after by scholars and students but couldnot be reprinted economically using traditional technology. TheCambridge Library Collection extends this activity to a wider range ofbooks which are still of importance to researchers and professionals,either for the source material they contain, or as landmarks in thehistory of their academic discipline.Drawing from the world-renowned collections in the CambridgeUniversity Library, and guided by the advice of experts in eachsubject area, Cambridge University Press is using state-of-the-artscanning machines in its own Printing House to capture the contentof each book selected for inclusion. The files are processed to givea consistently clear, crisp image, and the books finished to the highquality standard for which the Press is recognised around the world.The latest print-on-demand technology ensures that the books willremain available indefinitely, and that orders for single or multiplecopies can quickly be supplied.The Cambridge Library Collection will bring back to life booksof enduring scholarly value across a wide range of disciplines in thehumanities and social sciences and in science and technology.CambridgeCompositionsGreek and LatinE d i t e d b y R i c ha rd Dac re A rc h e r - Hi n da n d R o b e rt D rew Hi c k sC A M B R I D G E U N I V E R SI T Y P R E S SCambridge New York Melbourne Madrid Cape Town Singapore São Paolo DelhiPublished in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New Yorkwww.cambridge.orgInformation on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108002554© in this compilation Cambridge University Press 2009This edition first published 1899This digitally printed version 2009ISBN 978-1-108-00255-4This book reproduces the text of the original edition. The content and language reflectthe beliefs, practices and terminology of their time, and have not been updated.
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