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1 online resource (408 pages) |
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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 |
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Agreement of an adjective and noun2nd 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 |
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His and herReadings; 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 |
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The future tense of irregular verbsImperatives; 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 |
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The imperfect subjunctiveut 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 |
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More adjectives: alius, tōtus, nūllus, ūllus and sōlus |
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18 Slavery; quam; aliquis, aliqua, aliquid; alter, altera, alterum; quisquis, quidquid; quisquam, quidquam; quisque, quaeque, quodque; quidam; quo and qua; 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: volo, nolo, malo; Irregular verb: fio; 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: se 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 |
| Summary |
The Complete Latin Course is a comprehensive introduction to Latin for students and armchair enthusiasts alike. This modern, user-friendly text offers a series of fascinating glimpses into the world of ancient Rome, and sets you up to read Virgil, Cicero, Juvenal, Tacitus and many other authors in the original Latin. The story of Rome is told by the ancient authors themselves. Authentic texts help to guide the student through the mechanics of Latin, whilst giving insights into the history of Rome, her culture and society, her gods, her games, her power struggles |
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Print version record |
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Latin language -- Textbooks
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Latin language -- Grammar.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Latin.
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Latin language
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Latin language -- Grammar
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136849589 |
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1136849580 |
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9780203834459 |
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0203834453 |
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9781136849534 |
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113684953X |
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9781136849572 |
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1136849572 |
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0415603897 |
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9780415603898 |
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0415596459 |
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9780415596459 |
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