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Wheelock's Latin (originally titled Latin and later Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors) is a comprehensive beginning Latin textbook. Chapters introduce related grammatical topics and assume little or no prior knowledge of Latin grammar or language.
Wheelock wrote a number of papers and reviews in the areas of textual criticism, paleography, and Latin studies. Some of his works include: Wheelock's Latin [5] Wheelock's Latin Reader, [6] previously titled Latin Literature: A Book of Readings [7] Introduction and annotations of Quintilian as Educator (translated by H. E. Butler) [3]
In the United States, in grammars such as Gildersleeve and Lodge's Latin Grammar (1895), the traditional order is used, with the genitive case in the second place and ablative last. In the popularly used Wheelock's Latin (1956, 7th edition 2011) and Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar (1903), however, the vocative is placed at the end.
Ralph Wheelock (1600–1683) was an English Puritan minister, American colonial public official, and educator. He is known for having been the first public school teacher in America. Early life and education
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Wheelock produced the editio princeps of the Old English version of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1643–1644). [7] In the same work he published an important edition – and the first in England – of Bede's Ecclesiastical History in its original Latin text, [8] opposite the Old English version, along with Anglo-Saxon laws.
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In today's world, a large number of Latin students in the United States learn from Wheelock's Latin: The Classic Introductory Latin Course, Based on Ancient Authors. This book, first published in 1956, [48] was written by Frederic M. Wheelock. Wheelock's Latin has become the standard text for many American introductory Latin courses.