Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Latin alphabet
1 Myth, legend and history
Nouns and verbs
Nouns: subjects and objects
Verbs
The nominative case
The accusative case
Readings
2 The Republic
The genitive case
The dative case
The ablative case
Prepositions
The vocative case
est and sunt
Readings
3 Carthage
Singular and plural: nominative and accusative
Genitive, dative and ablative plural
Gender
Neuter nouns
Summary: puella, servus and vīnum
Readings
4 Greece
Questions
Adjectives: bonus, bona, bonum
Agreement of an adjective and noun
2nd declension nouns ending -er
Adjectives as nouns
Readings
5 New factions and old families
Genitive and dative expressing ownership
Past participles
Past participles with est or sunt
Translating past participles
sum, esse
Readings
6 The Republic under strain
Verbs
The present tense
The infinitive
The perfect tense
Perfect stems
Principal parts
Principal parts: 1st conjugation
Missing words or words ‘understood’
More adjectives acting as nouns
Readings
7 Friends and enemies
Verbs: 2nd conjugation
3rd declension nouns
Him, her and them
His and her
Readings
8 Civil war
3rd declension nouns (neuter)
‘3rd declension’ adjectives
Possessive adjectives
Readings
9 The Ides of March
Verbs: revision
3rd conjugation verbs
4th conjugation verbs
Mixed conjugation verbs
Summary: all five conjugations
Readings
10 A woman in politics
Nouns: 4th declension
Irregular verbs: sum, possum, volō, eō, ferō
Verbs followed by an infinitive
Readings
11 Politics and marriage
Verbs: the imperfect tense
The pluperfect tense
Numbers
Readings
12 The sweetness of peace
Nouns: 5th declension
The future tense
The future tense of irregular verbs
Imperatives
Uses of the accusative
Uses of the ablative
Readings
13 Dissenting voices
The future perfect tense
Tenses review
Principal parts review
Compound verbs
Readings
14 Songs and suppers
The passive voice
Personal pronouns: 1st and 2nd persons
Personal pronouns: 3rd person
hic, haec, hoc
ille, illa, illud
is, ea, id
Reflexive pronoun: sē
ipse, ipsa, ipsum
Readings
15 Tales of love
Introducing the subjunctive
The present subjunctive
Deponent verbs
Readings
16 Women: warriors, drunks and literary critics
The imperfect subjunctive
ut or nē to express purpose
Sequence of tenses: primary and historic
ut or nē with an indirect command
ut to express a consquence or result
ut with the indicative
The perfect subjunctive
The pluperfect subjunctive
The subjunctive after cum
The subjunctive after a verb expressing fear
The subjunctive in an indirect question
Summary: ut and nē
Readings
17 Family ties
Interrogative: who, what or which asking a question
Relative: who, which giving information
Indefinite: any, anyone, anything
Summary: quis/quī
More adjectives: alius, tōtus, nūllus, ūllus and sōlus
Readings
18 Slavery
quod
quam
aliquis, aliqua, aliquid
alter, altera, alterum
quisquis, quidquid
quisquam, quidquam
quisque, quaeque, quodque
quīdam
quō and quā
Readings
19 Education
Adjectives
Adverbs
Comparison
Comparative adverbs
The superlative
Superlative adverbs
Readings
20 Life at work
Past participles
The ablative absolute
Present participles
Participles with dependent nouns
Future participles
Summary: participles
Translating participles
Readings
21 Life at leisure
Conditional clauses
The partitive genitive
Irregular verbs: volō, nōlō, mālō
Irregular verb: fīō
Readings
22 Fugit irreparabile tempus
Infinitives
Reported speech, thoughts and feelings
The accusative and infinitive
Infinitives: present, past and future
The ‘other party’ subjunctive
More on the relexive pronoun and adjective: sē and suus
Readings
23 On the edge of the world
Gerunds
Gerundives
Readings
24 Gods and spirits
Impersonal verbs
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Revision of the uses of the subjunctive
Readings
25 Rough justice
Words working in pairs
The nominative case reviewed
The accusative case reviewed
The genitive case reviewed
Readings
26 Christianity
The dative case reviewed
The ablative case reviewed
Readings
The pronunciation of classical Latin
Timeline of Latin writers
Grammar summary
Index of examples
Index of grammar
Abbreviations
Latin to English vocabulary
English to Latin vocabulary
Additional online support