GARDNER’S LATIN DICTIONARY. 
A DICTIONARY 
OF 
THE LATIN LANGUAGE; 
PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO 
THE CLASSICS USUALLY STUDIED PREPARATORY TO A COLLEGIATE COURSE. 
BY FRANCIS GARDNER, A. M. 
INSTRUCTOR IN THE PUBLIC LATIN SCHOOL, BOSTON. 
In one Volume, Royal Octavo, Sheep. Price 2.25. 
The basis of this work is the Lexicon of the Latin Language, prepared by the late Mr. Levereit; a 
work which has been received with great favor by the public. But it is obvious that a work so full and com¬ 
prehensive as that is must contain much that can be of but little use to the young student. 
In preparing the present work, great care has been taken that it should embrace all the words occurring 
in those authors which are usually read previously to the college course ; viz., Virgil, Cicero’s Select Ora¬ 
tions, Sallust, Ovid, Caesar, Nepos, Phaedrus, etc. These words, with their respective definitions, have, m 
most cases, been inserted entire; their abridgment consisting chiefly in erasing a part of the citations from 
the authors in which they are found. In all cases, however, a sufficient number of examples has been 
retained to illustrate the meaning and construction of the word. _ 
But, although attention has been particularly paid to the authors here named, yet it must be obvious to 
every one, that a work which shall embrace and define every word in those authors must be a tolerably com¬ 
prehensive dictionary of the whole Latin language, and that, with the aid of it, almost any common Latin 
classic might be read. , , . . . , , „ 
In selecting the passages adduced as authority, care has been taken to retain such as are quoted from the 
above-mentioned writers ; and, in cases where none are quoted from them in Mr. Leverett’s work, examples 
from these writers have been, in many instances, substituted for those which were there selected. Other 
changes also, have been made from Leverett’s Lexicon, both in matter and arrangement. 
In using this work, it is believed that the beginner will be spared the expenditure of much time and labor. 
Which could not be escaped in using any larger work. _ 
From the New York Review. 
“ In order to adapt Mr. Leverett’s Lexicon more particularly for the use of scliool-boys, by reducing 
its size by the omission of those heads and articles which are entirely useless to them, an abridg¬ 
ment of it has been published, expressly adapted for their use. It was executed by Mr. Francis Gardner, a 
gentleman who has for some years been engaged in classical pursuits, as a teacher in the Public Latin School 
in Boston, whose perfect accuracy and knowledge of the subject were a sufficient guarantee that his work 
would be skilfully and ably performed. . T i 
“ To the manner in which it is executed we wish to call attention. Of an Encyclopedia ot the Latin lan¬ 
guage, it is desired to preserve those parts which are useful to a school-boy , and reject the rest. Those words 
which will recur in his earlier studies must be inserted, with such definitions as will be necessary there ; 
those phrases which he will meet with must be retained, as well as all the explanations of ancient science, 
art, customs, philosophy, history, and geography, which he will need. The only reasonable method of 
abridging is that which shall be made on such principles as we have described, and the reader will at once 
see what a careful discrimination and thorough knowledge of books it must require. To the other qualifica¬ 
tions of a good lexicographer which we have mentioned, it adds, as a requisite, full knowledge of the details 
of every book on which the school-boy will be exercised, that the dictionary may be prepared to meet all his 
wants. Such is the nature of the labor undertaken by Mr. Gardner, and very ably performed. Thoroughly 
executed as it is, on a plan so manifestly correct, it could not well have been otherwise. 
“ The mere abridgment, however, is not the only way in which the work has been adapted for schools. 
Whole articles have been entirely re-written, the arrangement of definitions and phrases and their dependence 
on each other changed, that the scholar may more easily understand the full force of each, lliese additions 
will be acknowledged to be such as will be real aids to the careful scholar. . 
“ Nor are these the only alterations made for his benefit. As he is supposed to consult the dictionary with 
a view only to its use in a certain class of books, those which he uses in his course of education prepaiatory 
to college, it has been more particularly fitted for that class, by the substitution, in many instances, foi Latin 
quotations from authors with which he cannot be acquainted, those which he will meet in his earlier studies. 
Whoever remembers how rejoiced he was, in his boyish studies, to find a knotty phrase explained and ulus 
trated in his dictionary, will not regret that the number of such helps should be enlarged. The connection 
between the Latin and Greek languages is so close, that the scholar’s attention should be carefully turned cO 
it, and a pupil who is sufficiently advanced to know a little of Greek words and idioms will always be u* ei 
ested in investigating this. This volume affords ample materials for such researches. We speak of thn with 
more interest, because we fear it has not received in our academies and schools the attention which it jU g ;lt - 
From Professor D. Prentice, of Geneva College. 
In addition to a judicious selection of words in this dictionary, the definitions are given with greater accu¬ 
racy, and with a clearer and more skilful arrangement, than in any dictionary heretofore puGishea. 
It offers to our schools a most valuable aid to the advancement among us of sound classical scholarship. 
The volume is of a convenient size for use, and the price proportionably reasonable. I l)*ve used it several 
months, and I consider it the most valuable dictionary for the learner, and for the student in a preparatory 
course for college, that I have ever seen. 
WILKINS, CARTER & COMPANY, Publishers, BOSTON. 
