Teaching Grammars

              Although several of the dictionaries in the previous sections included brief grammatical notes, full grammars for language learning became more common in the 17th and 18th centuries. The organization of grammar information also changed from the blocks of prose text describing parts of speech and pronunciation—as seen in the Thesaurus Linguae and the Etymologican—to formulaic tables of declensions and conjugations that appear familiar to those who have studied classical languages from a modern textbook. The books in this section are teaching grammars, designed to introduce Latin to a reader who is largely unfamiliar with classical scholarship via the medium of the vernacular. The books here are also physically different than those in the previous sections as they are smaller volumes meant to be carried around and possibly worked through programmatically rather than large volumes meant to be left in place and consulted for reference.