John Twells, Tentamina Elegantiarum Bina (1686)
Date
1686
Author
Book title
Tentamina Elegantiarum bina: Or, Two Essays Of Elegancies, In order to the bringing of Scholars, after they can Read and Write true Grammatical Latin, to a full and clear Understanding and Writing of Terse and Polite Latine. Principally intended for accomplishing the more Adult Youths in the Free-School at Newark upon Trent
Publication place
London
Printer
T. M.
Publisher
Benjamin Crayle
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
- grammar
- Latin
Word-group
type: topical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A. What is Idiotism?
B. Idiotism is an emphatical custom of speaking, proper and peculiar to some one tongue: Or thus,
Idiotism is two fold, or there are two sorts of Idiotism, i.e. Lexical and Grammatical: Of the first in Latine this may be an example, Potiri rerum, to reign; of the latter this, Potiente rerum Augusto, when Augustus reigned. (p. 9)
sample: A. What is Idiotism?
B. Idiotism is an emphatical custom of speaking, proper and peculiar to some one tongue: Or thus,
Idiotism is two fold, or there are two sorts of Idiotism, i.e. Lexical and Grammatical: Of the first in Latine this may be an example, Potiri rerum, to reign; of the latter this, Potiente rerum Augusto, when Augustus reigned. (p. 9)
Alston
VI.107c; XVI.504
Wing
T3395
