RITCHIE'S FABULAE FACILES

A FIRST LATIN READER


_EDITED WITH NOTES AND A VOCABULARY_

BY
JOHN COPELAND KIRTLAND, Jr.
_Professor of Latin in The Phillips Exeter Academy_



THE LITTLE THAT IS MINE IN THIS LITTLE BOOK I GRATEFULLY DEDICATE TO
PROFESSOR JOSEPH HETHERINGTON M'DANIELS TEACHER AND FRIEND




PREFACE


Some time ago a fellow-teacher brought the _Fabulae Faciles_ to my
notice, and I have since used two of them each year with my class of
beginners in Latin with increasing appreciation. Indeed, I know nothing
better to introduce the student into the reading of connected narrative,
and to bridge the great gulf between the beginner's book of the
prevailing type and the Latinity of Caesar or Nepos. They are adapted to
this use not merely by reason of their simplicity and interest, but more
particularly by the graduating of difficulties and the large use of