''An Introduction to Latin Syntax'' was a

Latin grammar Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, numbe ...

by John Mair published in 1750 in

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, printed by T. and W. Ruddiman. It saw many subsequent editions, the 8th printed in 1813.

Appendix

Appended to Mair's ''Introduction'' proper was ''Ancient history epitomized'', subtitled ''a short view of the principal transactions and events ... from the creation of the world, to the birth of Christ. Digested chronologically, and adapted to the method of the Introduction to Latin syntax, the English being in one column, and the Latin words in another. ...'' This text was also reprinted in James Davidson ''easy and practical introduction to the knowledge of the Latin tongue'' in 1798.

Reception

Mair's ''Introduction'' was cited by

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as evidence for his observation that "The only tolerable Latin grammars for school purposes that I know of, which had been produced in these islands until very lately, were written by Scotchmen" made in his ''Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews''.Liberty and Responsibility in John Stuart Mill

Editions

*revised and corrected by R. A. Carson, extended by D. Patterson, New York, 1830
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References

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