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but we must bow in some degree to usage by 

 adopting errors. Still we should be careful to 

 avoid enlarging the list, and in describing, avoid 

 all obvious incongruities, and we should not de- 

 scribe in Latin without some knowledge of that 

 language in its unadulterated state. 



968. Reading Latin is a very different matter 

 from writing it, and the author has endeavoured 

 so to explain the technical terms, that the reader 

 may understand almost any Latin description he 

 may meet with, by occasionally consulting a 

 Latin dictionary. 



