TWELVE RVLES INTRODVC­TING TO THE ART of LATINE.

Composed by Edmund Riue, Teacher of the Hebrew &c. in London.

ALIIS SERVIEMVS, NOSMETIPSOS CONTERIMVS.

At London printed by William Iones. 1620.

Twelue Rules to the Latin.

1. AM, but ae, ae, 2. as, ac. am or an, voc. a. 3. es, ac en, voc. & ab. e or a. 4. e, gen. es, dat. e, ac. en, voc. and ab. e. 5. Familias, after pater, mater, or filius. 6. Filia, nata, dea, mula, equa, anima, and the like, haue dat. and ab. plur in abus. 7. vs, voc. e. 8. ïus, of mans proper name, voc in i. likewise filius and genius. 9. deus, voc. Deus, plur. nom. dij, gen. deorum, dat. dijs, ac. deos. 10. os, ac. on, voc. e. but a pollos, gen. o, voc. os. 11. neuters haue nom. ac. and voc. alike, and plurally in a, 12. vis, rauis, tussis, sitis, a mussis, charib­dis, Thamesis, ac. in im, ab. in i. 13. is, sometimes ad­iectiue, and moneths names in er or is, and centustis, ab. in i. 14. neuters in al, ar, and e, ab. in i, nom. plur. in ia, gen. in ïum. sauing far, hepar, jubar, nectar, gau­sape. 15. nounes in two consonants, or nom. and gen. euan. gen. plur. in ïum. so dis, lis, vis, sal, manes, pena­tes, linter, uter, as, mas, vas vadis, nox, nix, os, ossis, faux, mus, cor. 16. but hyems, princeps, particeps, municeps, forceps, caelebs, cliens, canis, panis, vates, iuvenis, opes, apes, senex, precis, volucris, halcyonis, and nounes in er, haue um, but ales alituum, and bos boum, dat & ab bobus or bubus. 17. puring Greekes in is ac. in n, ab. in i, plur. gen. in ïum. 18. not puring, ac. in a. plu. ac. in as. 19. Iesus, ac. um, else u. 20. acus, lacus, ar­tus, [Page 2] arcus, tribus, ficus, specus, quercus, partus, portus, veru, dat. and ab. ubus. 21. Greeke ma, dat. and ab. plur. in tis. 22. fift, are feminine, sauing dies. 23. sub­stantiuing occidens, profluens, confluens, are in g. consonans, continens, f. g. contingens, accidens, ante­cedens, consequens, n. g. appetens, diligens, sitiens, a­mans, c. g. and animans f. or n. g. ab. in. i. Likewise like. 24. supellex, plur. in ia. rastrum, fraenum, filum, capistrum, plur. m, and n. coelum, plur m. nundinum, epulum, balneum, plur. f. and fibilus, iocus, locus, plur. m. and n. 25. nounes in i are inuariable, and in u, singularly: and all from three to an hundred .26. uoctu, natu, iussu, iniussu, promptu, permissu, astu, infi­cias, are monoptotes. fors forte, spontis sponte, repe­tundarum repetundis, suppetiae suppetias, tantundem tantidem, impetis impete, verberis verbere, vicem vice, plus pluris, iugeris iugere, are diptotes: but these foure are whole plurally. precis precem prece, opis opem ope are triptotes, but whole plurally. 27. hordeum, far, forum, mel, mulsum, defrutum, thus, soboles, labes, and all of fift, haue but nom. ac. and voc. plurall: sa­uing res, species, facie, acies, and dies .28. laurus, quer­eus, pinus, ficus a figge or figtree, lacus, domus, colus, penus, cornus a dog tree, are in declension second and fourth, some want number, and some redound.

29. Totus, solus, nullus, alter, vter, neuter, and their compounds like vnus: but alius, a, ud. gen. alius, dat. ii. 30. vber plentiful, memor, inops, vetus, pl. neut. in a, gen. in um: but plura. ïum. 31. hic & haec durior, & hoc durius. gen. oris. dat. ori. ac. hunc & hanc orem, & hoc vs. voc. m. and f. or, and n. us. ab. ore vel ori. plur. nom. hi & hae ores, & haec ora, gen. orum. dat. o­ribus. [Page 3] 32. comparatiue is made by adding or, to po­sitiue i: and superlatiue ssimus. 33. vnto er, superlatiue addeth rimus. 34. pureus increaseth by magis and max­ime. 35. facilis, gracilis, agilis, docilis, similis, humilis, change is into limus, in superl. 36. of dico, loquor, vo­lo, facio, comp. is entior, superl. is entissimus. 37. bo­nus, melior, optimus, and others anomall in gram. 38. capable participials and aduerbs are compared also. 39. ille like iste, but ipse. neut. ipsum. 40. quis vel qui as qui .41. nom. quid, gen. cuius, dat. cui, ac. quid, ab. quo .42. istic, istaec, istoc vel istuc, ac. istunc, istanc, istoc, vel istuc. ab istoc, istac, istoc. plur. nom. and ac. n istaec, so illic. 43. nom. hiccine, haeccine, hoccine, ac. huncci­ne, hanccine, hoccine. ab. hoccine, haccine, hoccine: plur. nom. and ac. neut. haeccine. 44. ecquis, nequis, nunquis, aliquis, siquis, haue in nom. fem. sing. and in nom. and ac. neut. plur. qua. 45. vestras and cuias like nostras: vocatiues are of the second person, and all o­ther words of the third, sauing ego and tu.

46. Verbs in ïo of the third, haue difference in the first rootes formation. 47. eo, queo, veneo are pecu­liars 48. the deponent and commune partake of the actiue. 49. prorsum afore e, assumeth d. 50. the im­personall passiue hath an imperatiue pretertence. 51. the syllable doubled in the perfect tence simple, is not in the compound, sauing in praecurro, excurro, repun­go: and in the compounds of do, disco, sco and posco. also the syllables doubled in the perfect tence, is not so in the supine. 52. Vescor pastus sum, medeor medi­catus sum, liquor liquefactus sum, reminiscor recordatus sum. 53. odi, caepi, memini, noui, signifie also present-like, & are defectiues like others in gram. 54. Equet [Page 4] hath no preterperfect tence. dor, der, for and his fer, are neuer simple. dic, duc, and fac are imperatiues. 55. The subiunctiue often imperatiuely, and then is vnconiunctioned. 56. Pariturus, nasciturus, sonaturus, arguiturus, luitutus, erniturus, nosciturus, moriturus, o­riturus, osurus, secaturus, affricaturus, refricaturus, to­naturus, iuvaturus, proceed anomally. 57. manifold is composition and deriuation. 58. from itus or ctus of the first, proceedes atio, sauing sectio. 59. but tor thence, is regular. 60. paenitens, decens, libens, paeni­tendus, pudendus, doe proceed: so others naturall.

61. Nam, quare, ac, ast, atque, et, aut, vel, nec, neque si, quin, quatenus, sin, seu, siue, ni, nisi, are prepositiues. 62. quidem, quoque, autem, vero, enim, are subiunc­tiues. 63. que, ne, ve are enclytickes. 64. ante before in time, circum about place, circa about place or time, circiter about time or number, secundum after or ac­cording to, vsque vntill, or well-nye vnto, secus by the way, cum with together. 65. am about, di along, dis asunder, re againe, se apart, con together with, are compositiues: and con afore a vowell or h, loo­seth n. 66. a and e afore a consonant, ab afore a vow­ell, and so ex commonly: but abs afore qu or t. and after x, s, may be omitted. 66. quod that, to the time past or present, and ut that, to the time to come. 67. ambiguous ablatiues in a, and hic here, and ergo for the sake are circumflexed. 68. ambiguous indecli­nables are in context grauated, but in end acu­ted. 69. fa in facio compounded is vttered long, and ma in amabo short. 70. a vowell afore a vowell is short, except in sio, and in the ïus, sauing alterius, and sauing e, between double i, in the fift. 71. also a vowel [Page 5] is short afore a mute with a liquid vnlesse analogy let. 72. a preterperfect tence & supine dissylable is long in penult, except in fidi, bibi, dedi, scidi, steti, tuli: and in quitum, situm, litum, itum, rutum, ratum, satum, datum, and citum of cieo. 73. do, with his compounds hath a, short. 74. adiectiues in inus product ï; except diutinus crastinus, pristinus, perendinus, hornotinus, serotinus, o­leaginus, faginus, cedrinus, carbasinus, and like materi­als. 75. but originall quantity remaineth. 76. vnto an hundred, the lesse nūber cardinal first with a copu­latiue: otherwise it is latter euery where. 77. comma distinguisheth little, semicolon somwhat more; colon most: but period ends. parenthesis interposeth omit­tible. interrogatiue asketh, admiratiue wondreth or exclaimeth at, conuinctiue vniteh, diuisiue diuideth, and apostrophus pareth.

78. A verbe must be in the same number & person, as his nominatiue case is in. 79. an a diectiue must be in the same number, case and gender as his substan­tiue is in. 80. a relatiue must be in the same number, gender, and person, as his antecedent is in: and the relatiue must be in the nominatiue case vnto the verb next after him, if no nominatiue case be between thē. 81. If a verb, adiectiue, or relatiue hath before him cou­pled supposites, he must be plurall, and agree with the worthier. 82. if they be liuelesse, the adiectiue or rela­tiue must commonly be neuter. 83. also they being betweene two supposites may agree with eyther. 84. Also if they respect but to one matter, they must be singular and neuter. 85. but if they to more than to one, they must bee plurall. 87. If a no­minatiue substantiue bee betweene the relatiue and the Verbe next after him, the Relatiue must bee [Page 6] in that case, as the word whereof he is gouerned will haue him to be in. 87. the relatiue may be substantiue vnto the adiectiue after him. 88. nounes interroga­tiues and indefinitiues follow the rules and nature of the relatiue. 89. in a question, and to an imperatiue verbe, and because of it or there the nominatiue is transposed. 90. the verbe is principall, which hath afore him neither relatiue nor coniunction, and is not infinitiue. 91. When quod that, or ut that, may be vsed, they may be left out, and then the next nomina­tiue following must be in the accusatiue, and the next verb following must be in the infinitiue.

92. An adiectiue hauing the thing or things substan­tiue to him, may bee put neuterly, the Latine for thing or things not expressed. 93. and an adiectiue being so put, may be substantiue to an adiectiue after him. 94. also an adiectiue may be put neuterly with­out a substantiue, when as it hath afore it a preposi­tion, and aduerbializeth. 95. also if an adiectiue haue a liuelesse substantiue, it may be neuter, and his sub­stantiue be in the genitiue. 96. if any adiectiue hath not his substantiue expressed in Latine, hee substanti­zeth. 97. a substantiue vnderstood to an adiectiue, is to be conceiued in like case vnto that adiectiue. 98. an adiectiue partitiue as of the gender, as the next sub­stantiue after him is. 99. the casuall word begotten­ly following a verbe or participle, must be the accu­satiue case, vnlesse a rule beneath letteth, 100. when the gouerning word may be well enough vnder­stood, it is in latine commonly omitted: Likewise o­ther such words are. 1. A substantiue is not gouer­ned of the adiectiue afore him, whereunto hee is sub­stantiue, [Page 7] but of some ōther gouerning word afore that adiectiue. 2. the latter of two substantiues diuersing, may be in the genitiue; or rather in his adiectiue pos­sessiue, if good sense permitteth.

3. When vnto his, her, or their may be added own, it must be made by suus. 4. when vnto him, her, or them may be added selfe or selues, it must be made by sui. 5. otherwise his, her, or their is by a relatiues genitiue. 6. speciall ownity is signified by adding ipsius, solius, vnius, duorum, trium, &c. omnium, plurium, paucorum, cuiusque, and participles presents genitiues refer­ringly. 7. ipse may bee for any person. hic sheweth him by me. iste him by thee. ille him from vs both. al­so iste for contempt, and ille for eminencie. 8. ille the one, hic the other relatiuely. 9. alius one, alius ano­ther demonstratiuely. 10. et both, et and. vel either, vel or. 11. as, after, talis, is, qualis: after tantus, quan­tus: after tot, quot: after tam, quam: after adeo, ac: after ita, atque, with potentiall Latine. 12. after an aduerbe of wishing, and dum so, that, or vntill, quoad vntill; quasi, ceu, tanquam, perinde acsi, haud secus ac­si, quamuis, licet, si although, qui seeing that, cum al­though, forasmuch as, or because; ne, an, num, utrum, taken not interrogatiuely; ut that, least not, conside­ring that, must be potentiall Latine. 13. but after do­nec as long as, dum whiles that, si quis, quando, quandoquidem, quoniam, quippe without qui, ne, an, num, vtrum, nonne, anne interrogatiues; vt after that, as, euen as, or how, must be indicatiue latine. 14. en and ecce shewing, require a nominatiue; but vpbrai­ding, to an accusatiue. 15. tempori, luci, vesperi may aduerbialize. 16. after aduerbs of quantity, time, or [Page 8] place, & instar and adiectiues of likenes may be a geni­tiue. 17. and aduerbs may gouern such case, as do the nounes or prepositions whence they come. 18. in, sig­nifying on, vpon, towards, against, into or vnto, re­quires an accusatiue. 19. sub vnto, by or a little a­fore to an accusatiue; suber beyond, to an accusatiue, concerning in, or on, to an ablatiue. tenus to an ablatiue singular or plurall, but to a genitiue plurall onely. 20. cum with, is set after ego, tu, sui, and qui. & tenus, versus, paenes and vsque after all. 21. o, to a no­minatiue, accusatiue, and vocatiue. heu & pro to a no­minatiue or accusatiue, & pro to avocatiue. hei & veh to a datiue. apage & apagete, & hem to an accusatiue.

22. A casuall word vntokened, after a verbe sub­stantiue. 23. or after a passiue verb of terming .24. or after a verbe of gesture. 25. or after an infinitiue with a verbe of wishing. 26. or after the word beeing. 27. or after an aduerb of likenes. 28. or after a coniunctiō copulatiue, disjunctiue, discretiue or exceptiue. 29. or after a substātiue vncapable of of, must be in like case vnto the word afore it. 30. but a casuall word vnde­pending, must be in the ablatiue. 31. a casual word of the valew must be in the genitiue, and it hath, or may haue the token as afore it. 32. a casuall word of the property is in the ablatiue or genitine. 33. a casuall word of price is in the ablatiue, sauing tanti, quanti, pluris, minoris, and their compounds. 34. yet valco may haue an accusatiue. 35. the casuall word signifying part of time is in the ablatiue. 36. but signifying continuall terme of time, is in the ac­cusatiue. 37. if it signifie space betweene place and place, it must be in the accusatiue. 38. if it signi­fie the measure of height, length, depth, breadth, &c. [Page 9] vnto an adiectiue it must bee in accusatiue or abla­tiue. 39. a proper name of a comprehended place, hauing in or at afore it, must bee in the genitiue. 40. so humi on the ground, domi in or at home, militiae, belli, in or at warre, or warfare. 41. but if it be plu­rall or of the third declension, it must bee in the da­tiue or ablatiue. so ruri vel ruro, in or at the coun­try. 42. and hauing to afore it, it must be in the accu­satiue: so domum, home or to home: rus, to the coun­try. 43. and hauing from or by afore it, must bee in the ablatiue: likewise domus and rus are vsed. 44. the casuall word of the crime may be in the ablatiue or genitiue. 45. but with vterque, nullus, alter, neu­ter, alius, ambo, or a superlatiue, it must be in the ab­latiue onely. 46. also the casuall word signifying the measure of exceeding, or the forme or manner of a thing, after a verbe or noune, must be in the abla­tiue also.

47. of or by, after a participle passiue, or adiectiue in bilis, is token of the datiue. 48. but after a verbe passiuall is commonly à, and sometimes token of da­tiue. 49. of, after opus and vsus need, is token of the ablatiue. 50. and of, after verbs or adiectiues, sig­nifying fulnesse, emptinesse, plenty or wanting, loa­ding or vnloading, is of ablatiue or genitine. 51. like­wise after dignus and indignus. 52. but of, after natus, prognatus, satus, creatus, cretus, ortus, editus, generatus, is of the ablatiue. 53. after pertaesus, is in the accusa­tiue. 54. but indoctus & inexpertus require a genitiue: and fretus an ablatiue. 55. of or concerning is de 56. of or from, after verbs of receiuing, distance or taking away is à: and sometimes is taken of the datiue. [Page 10] 57. but of, or out of, is e. 58. and of, after dignor, mu­nero, or communico, is of the ablatiue. 59. and after mereor, is de. 60. To, after a verb or participle of mo­uing vnto, is ad. 61. and to, vnable to be of, after a substantiue is ad. 62. & to, after attinet, pertinet, spec­tat, is ad also. 63. to, not acquisitiuely after natus, commodus, incommodus, propensus, vtilis, invtilis ve­hemens, aptus, conduco, confero, is ad. 64. for or to, ac­quisitiuely, is of the datiue. 65. likewise if for, may be a, or thee, following sum, or any other verb hauing a datiue. 66. but for or vnto, following or beginning a speech, must be ad. 67. if for, may be in stead of, or in defence of, it is pro. 68. if for may be by reason of, it is propter or ob. 69. but for, implying the cause. 70. and with implying the instrument or manner of doing, or matter of being, after verbs or adiectiues, is of the ablatiue. 71. in, after desipio, ango, pendeo, discrucior, is token of the genitiue. 72. and in, after verbs or adiectiues, afore a substantiue, wherein is the property or passion, is token of the ablatiue. 73. likewise when it signifieth not act in a place, or mat­ter. 74. by or than after cōparatiues, are token of the ablatiue. 75. adiectiues signifying desire, knowledge, remembrance, & contrary to these and adiectiues in ax do gouern a genitiue. 76. adiectiues signifying profit likenes, pleasure, submission, relation to any thing, or their contraries, & adiectiues cōpounded with con, do gouern a datiue. 77. cōmunis, immunis, alienus are con­strued with a genitiue, datiue, or ablatiue preposition'd.

78. The substantiue after misereor, miseresco, interest, refert, & est it behoueth, skilleth or concerneth, sum sig­nifying to pertaine or for possession, as satago, is in the genitiue. 79. but mine, thine, his owne, our, your, & [Page 11] whose behalfe; or mee, thee, himselfe, vs, you, whom, after those impersonals, is to be in the ablatiue, femi­nine, singular. 80. the casuall word after reminiscor, obliuiscor, recorder and memini, is in genitiue or accu­satiue. 81. but after noceo, parco, faueo, indulgeo, pla­ceo, displiceo, adulor, palpor, blandior, libet, dolet, suf­ficit, licet, &c. must be in the datiue. 82. and after verbs betokening to profit or disprofit, to compare, to giue or restore, to promise or pay, to command or shew, to trust, to obey or be against, to threaten, or to be angry with, and their compounds, and after sum, or his cō­pounds except possum, and after verbs compounded with satis, bene, male, ad, con, sub, ante, post, ob, in, inter, or prae, answering vnto whom, or to what, must be in the datiue. 83. but after praeco, anteo, praecedo, praeuer­tor, praecurro, praeuincio, laedo, studeo, iuvo, &c. may be in the accusatiue. 84. so must it it be after exosus and perosus actiues. 85. and the casuall word vntokened after the accusatiue with a verbe of asking, teaching, araying, or calling, or with celo, presto, facio, must be in the accusatiue. 86. and the casual word after sono, simulo, oleo, viuo, must be in the accusatiue. 87. but after tempero moderor, in the datiue or accusatiue. 88. cōsulo, I ask counsel to to an accusatiue, I giue coun­sell to a datiue. 89. ausculto, I hear to an accusatiue, I obey to a datiue. 90. memini, I mencion, is with de. 91. I conquer to a genitiue, I obtain to an abla­tiue. 92. est and suppetit for habeo, require the seeming accusatiue to be nominatiue, and the seeming nomi­natiue to be datiue. 93. do tibi literas for to carry thē. do ad te literas for to read them. 94. metuo, timeo, for­mido tibi vel de te, for thy good. but te or a te lest thou hurt me. 95. interdico may haue an ablatiue after adatiue. 96. the casuall word after vtor, abutor, fun­gor, [Page 12] fruor, laetor, gaudeo within or at, muto with for or with, nitor, with, on, or in, epulor, vescor, glorior, de­lector, supersedeo, must be in the ablatiue. 97. oportet must, to an accusatiue, licet may, to adatiue. 98. a verbe cōpound importing motion to, oftentimes may haue after him the case, which his preposition requi­reth. 99. and a verb compound with a, ab, ad, con, de, e, ex, or in, may sometimes haue after him the casuall word with his preposition afore him also. 100. the ac­cusatiue that may be after a gerund in di, may some­times be a genitiue. 1. an impersonall passiue with an ablatiue and a, signifieth like his actiue, and this actiues nominatiue, and one verbe or adiectiue, may at one time gouerne diuers cases.

2. The actiue infinitiue present tence english, after a substantiue of property, or after cupidus, peritus, cer­tus, quarus, and their compounds, must be gerund in di. 3. which gerund in di, hath somtimes of or in afore it, & then hath participle prsent tence english. 4. but that infinitiues english after another manner substā­tiue or adiectiue must be gerūd in dum, with ad afore it. 5. yet after dignus, indignus, contentus and audax, it remaines infinitiue present tence. 6. but shewing rea­son after a speech, must pe in dum, with ad, ob, propter, inter or ante afore it. 7. and the infinitiue passiue pre­sent tence after dignus, indignus, turpis, foedus, procli­uis, facilis, odiosus, mirabilis, optimus, & the like may be in the latter supine, or in the infinitiue passiue. 8. but after vnlike adiectiues must be the gerund in dum with ad afore it. 9. the participle of the present tence eng­lish, with of or with, or for afore it, after a noune ad­iectiue must be gerund in do. 10. likewise wheresoe­uer it may haue in or by afore it. 11. and if that english [Page 13] may haue afore it the english of à, e, cum, in, or pro, they are to bee vsed afore it. 12. and if it begetteth a casuall word, it may be made to agree with it. 13. likewise may that which might be the gerund in dum, with a preposi­tion afore it. 14. must or ought vnto a verbe, may be by gerund in dum, and the verbe est, in his proper mood & tence, and the doer in the datiue. 15. all the gerunds may be vsed passiuely, and yet in the aforesaid gouern­ment.

16. A casual word after a substantiue in the beginning of a speech, is to be in the accusatiue. 17. the optatiue mood is sometimes vsed without an aduerb of wishing expressed to it. 18. that which may be vttred in a word may somtimes be vy phrase & sometimes by variation. 19. sense may deriue larine, & may rightly ioyne it, and may discern of it. 20. consonant it to follow vowell, and vowell after consonant, according to the eare, & latines nature: but the verb is to be last in speech, or a polysil­lable of long penult. 21. archaismes, varieties, figures, and poeticals are to be obserued. 22. for to construe latine, first I must read the sentence to a ful point, marking al the points & proper names: secondly, I must take first a vocatiue case, if there be any one; or whatsoeuer is in stead of it, and that which depends of it, for to make it plaine: thirdly, I must seek out the principall verb, and his nominatiue case, & take first the nominatiue case, or whatsoeuer is in stead of it, & that which hangeth on it, for to make it plaine: then the verbe with the infinitiue mood, or aduerb: & next the accusatiue case, or such case as the verb properly gouerns: lastly, all the other cases in order: as 1. the genitiue; 2. the datiue; 3. the ablatiue, according as good sense, and parsing will suffer.

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