LEVERETT’S LATIN LEXICON; 
ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. 
COMPILED CHIEFLY FKOM THE 
MAGNUM TOTIUS LATINITATIS LEXICON OF FACCIOLATI AND FORCELLINI, AND THE 
GERMAN WORKS OF SCHELLER AND LUENEMANN. 
EDITED BY F. P. LEVERETT. 
A NEW EDITION, 
EMBRACING THE CLASSICAL DISTINCTIONS OF WORDS, AND TIIE ETYMOLOGICAL INDEX OF 
RIDDLE’S FREUND’S LEXICON. 
In one Volume, Royal Octavo, Sheep. Price 5.00. 
The present edition of this standard and favorite Latin Lexicon has been much improved by the transfer to its columns of the classi¬ 
cal distinctions of the words, as given in the Lexicon of Doctor William Freund, of Germany, and translated by Riddle. The classical 
degree of each word is indicated by placing a figure directly under the first letter of the word in its column. For example: —A word 
without a figure under it is Classical; and fully Ciceronian; or else it is a proper name, to which classic laws do not apply. The figure 
1, placed under a word, denotes that it is rare in Cicero. These words are Classical, but not of the first authority; though many of 
them are peculiar to that writer. The figure 2, placed under a word, denotes that it is Classical, but not Ciceronian. The classical prose 
writers are Cicero, Csesar, Sallust, Livy, Velleius, Cclsus, the two Senecas, Quintilian, Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the elder, and Pliny 
the younger. The figure 3, placed under a word, denotes that it does not belong to classical prose. Some of these words are anti-classical, 
and some of them are occasionally found in the Poets; hut most of them are post-classical, belonging to Low Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin, 
Medieval Latin, and many of them to the New or Modern Latin, coined chiefly for the convenience of the sciences. These distinctions 
the student perceives at a glance. 
The Etymological Index, also from Freund’s Lexicon, has been incorporated into the present edition oi Leverett, and will be found a 
valuable acquisition. While transferring these notes and marks, catalogues were carefully kept of the words found in each Lexicon 
which were not found in the other ; on comparing these catalogues, it was found that the value and importance of the additional words 
found in Leverett, so far as a knowledge of the Latin language is concerned, very far exceeds that of those found in Riddle’s Freund. 
The extensive use of Leverett’s Lexicon, in all parts of the country, and the preference which has been universally given to it over all 
similar works, render its recommendation superfluous ; but attention to this new edition is respectfully invited, as being still more 
worthy than its predecessors of the distinguished favor which the work has hitherto received. 
From, the JVeio York Review. 
“The very great value of an accurate and thorough Latin Lexicon might have been taken for granted, 
and the tremendous difficulty of making it pre-supposed. We should then have only to begin by saying that 
Mr. Leverett’s Lexicon will be found such; in its preparation every obstacle seems to have been surmounted, 
and every precaution used. For comprehensiveness of plan, for accuracy of detail, for general skill and 
philosophical arrangement of its contents, for the precision and correctness of its statements, for the care of 
its execution, and the beauty and exactness of its outward appearance, it is, so far as we know, without a 
rival. Whoever makes it his counsellor soon begins to rely upon it as an almost unerring authority. In 
a single volume, the student finds that for which he has been accustomed to seek in many different quarters; 
besides a vocabulary, he finds, in its careful notations of quantity, the advantages of a gradus; in its full 
quotations from authorities, he finds little need for the cumbrous volumes of a thesaurus ; and its explana¬ 
tions of ancient geography and art leave him little to look for in treatises of a more restricted character. AVe 
know that this is high praise ; we have not uttered it, however, without well weighing our words, and with¬ 
out a full knowledge, derived from daily experience, of the book of which we write. * * * * * How skil¬ 
fully and admirably Mr. Leverett fulfilled the duty he had imposed upon himself, we need not say to those who 
have had any occasion to make use of the result of his labors. From what we have already said, the reader 
will see that it was a duty necessarily involving tremendous toil; it was, however, conscientiously undertaken 
and completed, and the result is one for which every scholar must be thankful and every American be proud. 
The student of Latin, of any degree of capacity or acquisition, will feel, in the use of this volume, that he has 
an authority which is neither defective nor erroneous. AVhenever he has occasion to turn to a word, he will 
find at a glance the quantity of its syllables, its derivation, its primitive meaning, and the manner in which 
its other definitions are derived from this, and the different shades of its signification in various phrases. He 
will have placed before him illustrations of the manner in which the ancient authors use it in every connec¬ 
tion and for every signification. He will find the manner in which, for different purposes, it is united with 
other words. In instances where, by any peculiarity of expression, or other singularity, any author uses it once 
or uniformly in a different manner from other authors, he will find the irregularity explained. As we have 
already suggested, he will find in it copious explanations of ancient habits, customs, geography, history and 
biography, which will generally he quite sufficient for the illustration of the author he is reading; obtaining 
in it such constantly useful resources, he will soon, unless he be one of those critical scholars whose duty 
requires them to reject every authority easily obtained, consider it as an oracle from whose decisions no 
appeal is necessary. AVe do not attempt to illustrate this general praise by special examples ; every page of 
the book is an example, and no scholar can examine it without finding that it supplies a want which he has 
before felt in his studies. AVe make no attempt to compare it with other works of the same nature. So for 
as we know, there is no hook, having or professing to have the same object, that has the slightest claim to 
competition with it. ’ ’ 
From the Literary World, JVew York. 
“ A new edition of a work well known in our academies, improved by a system of notation marking the 
classification of Latin words according to their authority, and derived from the German work of Freund. The 
etymological index of Freund is added to the Latin-English divisions. An English-Latin department is 
added. This is an excellent and available school manual.” 
jL AVILKINS, CARTER & COMPANY, Publishers, BOSTON. 
