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Latin Poetry Podcast Abracadabra mortiferum magis est quod Graecis hemitritaeos vulgatur verbis; hoc nostrā dicere linguā non potuēre ulli, puto, nec voluere parentes. inscribes chartae quod dicitur abracadabra saepius et subter repetes, sed detrahe summam et magis atque magis desint elementa figuris singula, quae semper rapies, et cetera figes, donec in angustum redigatur littera conum : his lino nexis collum redimire memento. nonulli memorant adipem prodesse leonis. Quinctius Serenus Sammonicus, Liber Medicinalis 923-941 (ed. Vollmer in Corpus Medicorum Latinorum 3.2, Leipzig: Teubner, 1916). The work seems to date from the 2nd to the 4th centuries AD, and is usually assigned by scholars to around AD 200, based on the dubious identification of the author as Serenus Sammonicus, a scholar and moral critic of the age of Septimius Severus. Vollmer sensibly suggests linques or scribes for figes, which he believes is a corruption carried over from figura in the previous line. Here is my translation:
Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar, Table of Contents Preface Part I - Words and Forms Letters and Sounds Words and Their Forms Declension of Nouns Inflection of Adjectives Inflection of Pronouns Conjugation of Verbs Particles Formation of Words Part II - Syntax Introductory Note The Sentence Nouns Adjectives Pronouns Verbs Particles Questions Construction of Cases Nominative Case Vocative Case Genitive Case Dative Case Accusative Case Ablative Case Time and Place Special Uses of the Prepositions Syntax of the Verb Moods Tenses Participles Gerund and Gerundive Supine Conditional Sentences Concessive Clauses Clauses of Proviso Clauses of Purpose Clauses of Characteristic Clauses of Result Causal Clauses Temporal Clauses Clauses with quin and quominus Substantive Clauses Indirect Discourse Intermediate Clauses Important Rules of Syntax Order of Words Prosody Quantity Rhythm Versification Early Prosody Miscellaneous