Excerpt from The Works of P. Virgilius Maro: Including the Æneid, Bucolics and Georgics, With the Original Text Reduced to the Natural Order of Construction, And an Interlinear TranslationAscham wrote at a time when the Latin language was not only the sole medium of communication between men of literature and science, but almost a necessary introduction to the common business of life, and, on this account, it was'desirable that Latin composition should be more exten sively studied in early youth. At the time Locke wrote, the use of the Latin language was far less general. Each of these writers dwells upon that part of his subject which was most worthy of consideration in his own age. Ascham gives directions more particularly for the writing of Latin: Locke, for the reading of Latin writers. Locke not only advocated the plan of interlinear translation, but actually translated z'esop's fables in this manner. The following title page is copied from the second edition of this work. Esop's fables, in English and Latin Interlineary, for the benefit of those who, not having a master, would learn either of these tongues. The second edition, with Sculp tures - by John Locke, Gent. About the year 1816, Mr. Hamilton taught the French language on a plan resem bling tuat of Locke, to which he gave his own name. Before this time, Messrs. Carre and Sanderson, two distinguished classical teachers of Philadelphia, published interlined trans lations of a part of Historia Sacra, and a part of Telemachus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.