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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
Eleazar Wheelock was born in Windham, Connecticut, to Ralph Wheelock and Ruth Huntington, who had a prosperous farm of 300 acres. [1] He is the great-grandson of the first teacher of the first free school in the United States (see Dedham, Massachusetts), the Rev. Ralph Wheelock.
The Cambridge Latin Course (CLC) is a series of textbooks published by Cambridge University Press, used to teach Latin to secondary school pupils. It provides a grounding in vocabulary, grammar and sense which allows progression through Common Entrance exams into a Secondary, or, Public School.
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.
In front of me is a copy of the 4th edition (1992), ISBN 0064671445, and it is called "Wheelock's Latin Grammar". LaFleur hasn't done his homework very well, which I also notice in a few of his additions to the content of the book. -- 216.145.71.230 ( talk ) 15:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]