Table of Contents

Contents

Chapter One

The Latin alphabet
Capital letters
Punctuation
Pronunciation
Latin in English
Abbreviations and phrases
Inflection (1): word order and endings
Inflection (2): modern languages
Inflection (3): what the endings tell us
Verbs: first conjugation
Nouns: first and second declensions
Working out the subject
Word order
‘the’ or ‘a’?
Three important conjunctions
The verb to be
Prepositions (1): with the accusative
Summary of grammar covered in Chapter One
Chapter One vocabulary

Chapter Two

Genitive, dative and ablative cases
Noun cases: a summary table
First and second declensions in full
Translating with the ablative
Prepositions (2): with the ablative
Second declension neuter
Verbs: second, third and fourth conjugations
New verbs
The infinitive
Background: the Trojan War and the origins of Rome
Using wordlists
The Judgement of Paris
To, from and in cities
Time phrases (1): ‘time how long’
The wrath of Achilles
The death of Patroclus
The death of Hector
The Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy
Chapter Two vocabulary

Chapter Three

Chapters One & Two grammar revision summary
Imperfect tense
Translating the imperfect tense
sum – imperfect tense
Aeneas and Creusa
The verb possum
Adjectives (1): laetus -a -um
The Trojans head for Crete
Noun anomalies (1): nauta
Noun anomalies (2): vir, puer, liber
Adjectives (2): miser -era -erum
Vocative case
The Imperative
The Trojans depart from Crete
Time adverbs
Two contrasting receptions
Scylla and Charybdis
Chapter Three vocabulary

Chapter Four

Perfect tense: first conjugation
Perfect tense: second, third and fourth conjugations
Perfect tense: summary table
Third declension nouns
In the land of the Cyclopes
Storm and Rescue
Background: Aeneas’ epic quest
Questions (1)
Dido and Aeneas (1)
Third declension neuter
Mixed conjugation verbs
Dido and Aeneas (2)
Pronouns and possessives (1)
Time phrases (2): ‘time when’
Dido and Aeneas (3)
Dido and Aeneas (4)
Chapter Four vocabulary
Chapter Five

Verbs: future tense
Time adverbs (2)
sum & possum: future tense
Time adverbs (3)
The Sibyl and the Underworld
Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives (2): nos, vos, noster, vester
The eating of tables
Adjectives (3): third declension
The future site of Rome
The victory of Aeneas
Adverbs from adjectives
Background: From Aeneas to Romulus
Romulus and Remus
The foundation of Rome
The relative pronoun (qui, quae, quod) and the relative clause
The Sabine women
The Deification of Romulus
Chapter Five vocabulary

Chapter Six

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Reference Grammar

English to Latin vocabulary

Latin to English vocabulary

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About the Author

Henry Cullen teaches Classics and is Director of Studies at St Albans High School for Girls, UK.

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and now teaches at Manchester University, UK. He is an experienced examiner of Ancient Greek and the author of the widely used textbooks Essential GCSE Latin; Latin Beyond GCSE; Greek to GCSE; and (with Stephen Anderson) Greek Unseen Translation and Writing Greek.

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I particularly enjoyed the respect the authors show for the intelligence of the students ... Whilst this text book is a useful and much-needed aid when trying to get one’s head around the new specification for the first time, it provides much more than that.
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