Table of Contents

Contents Salve! Singular and plural Exercise 1.1 To be or not to be? A or the? Exercise 1.2 Pronouns Exercise 1.3 The Roman Empire Exercise 1.4 Exercise 1.5 Amo = I love: present tense Verbs like amo Exercise 1.6 Exercise 1.7 Translating the present tense Exercise 1.8 Exercise 1.9 Exercise 1.10 Vocabulary 1 A bit more about nouns Exercise 2.1 1st declension nouns: puella Exercise 2.2 The nominative case Exercise 2.3 Exercise 2.4 Exercise 2.5 - Island life The vocative case Exercise 2.6 Exercise 2.7 Subjects and objects Exercise 2.8 Exercise 2.9 Transitive and intransitive Exercise 2.10 Exercise 2.11 Exercise 2.12 Exercise 2.13 Traffic-lights: beware! Exercise 2.14 Cave (beware, again!) Exercise 2.15 Exercise 2.16 - To sing or not to sing... Vocabulary 2 More about nouns The genitive case Using apostrophes Exercise 3.1 The dative case Exercise 3.1 (cont.) The ablative case Exercise 3.1 (cont.) All the cases Exercise 3.2 Exercise 3.3 A minor problem Exercise 3.4 Exercise 3.5 - The dangers of Danegeld? A final word on the 1st declension Exercise 3.6 2nd declension nouns: dominus Exercise 3.7 Exercise 3.8 Exercise 3.9 - Hercules' 8th labour Feeling scholarly? 2nd declension nouns in -er: puer and magister Exercise 3.10 Exercise 3.11 Exercise 3.12 Exercise 3.13 Exercise 3.14 Exercise 3.15 deus, vir, filius Vocabulary 3 Nouns like bellum Exercise 4.1 Exercise 4.2 Exercise 4.3 Prepositions + the ablative Exercise 4.4 Exercise 4.5 Exercise 4.6 - How some horses won a war page 42 Adjectives Exercise 4.7 Agreement of adjectives A word on genders Exercise 4.8 A word of warning Exercise 4.9 sum + complement Exercise 4.10 Exercise 4.11 The imperfect tense Exercise 4.12 Exercise 4.13 Exercise 4.14 Imperfect of sum Exercise 4.15 A little piece on translating Exercise 4.16 Exercise 4.17 - Ulysses returns home Vocabulary 4 The imperfect tense Exercise 4.12 Exercise 4.13 Exercise 4.14 Imperfect of sum Exercise 4.15 A little piece on translating Exercise 4.16 Exercise 4.17 - Ulysses returns home Vocabulary 4 Learning to count: I-X Exercise 5.1 Exercise 5.2 Exercise 5.3 Prepositions + the accusative Dative of the Possessor Exercise 5.4 - The Story of Niobe The perfect tense Exercise 5.5 Exercise 5.6 Exercise 5.7 - Pluto carries off Prosperina Exercise 5.8 Perfect of sum Exercise 5.9 Exercise 5.10 Exercise 5.11- A horse is rescued Coping with principal parts Exercise 5.12 Exercise 5.13 Using those supines Vocabulary 5 2nd conjugation: moneo Exercise 6.1 Exercise 6.2 Exercise 6.3 Exercise 6.4 - Laurelus and Hardius attempt to move a statue Apposition Exercise 6.5 Pronouns in the accusative Exercise 6.6 Exercise 6.7 Exercise 6.8 Exercise 6.9 Exercise 6.10 Exercise 6.11 Questions in Latin Exercise 6.12 Exercise 6.13 - Some sailors arrive at an island seeking gold 3rd conjugation: rego Exercise 6.14 Exercise 6.15 Exercise 6.16 Exercise 6.17 Exercise 6.18 - The birth or Romulus and his twin brother Remus Vocabulary 6 Ordinals: 1st-10th Exercise 7.1 4th conjugation: audio Exercise 7.2 Exercise 7.3 Exercise 7.4 Exercise 7.5 Exercise 7.6 Exercise 7.7 - The sailors approach the town Veni, vidi, vici! Exercise 7.8 Exercise 7.9 Exercise 7.10 Exercise 7.11 - Romulus and Remus are thrown into the River Tiber Vocabulary 7 Mixed conjugation Exercise 8.1 Exercise 8.2 Exercise 8.3 - The wicked sailors are foiled Exercise 8.4 Exercise 8.5 Imperatives More about sum Exercise 8.6 Exercise 8.7 Exercise 8.8 - Romulus and Remus found Rome Revision of prepositions Exercise 8.9 Exercise 8.10 Adsum and Absum Exercise 8.11 Exercise 8.12 Exercise 8.13 - An adventure by sea Vocabulary 8 Subordinate clauses Exercise 9.1

About the Author

Theo Zinn was educated at Charterhouse and New College, Oxford. He was for over twenty years the Head of Classics at Westminster School, during which time he revived and directed the Westminster Latin Play, a national institution commanding respect across the world. He now lives in Godalming and continues to teach from an awesome repository of knowledge about the Classical languages which he has loved, and taught others to love, for so many years.