Complete Latin Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course · Learn to Read, Write, Speak and Understand a New Language With Teach Yourself by Betts, Gavin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Contents Meet the author Editor's note: Introduction

Consonants Vowels Diphthongs Notes on the pronunciation of consonants and vowels Syllable division Quantity of syllables Word accent

1 Nouns in Latin 2 First declension 3 Basic uses of cases 4 Word order

Latin reading Vocabulary Points to remember Excursus: Latin and its varieties

1 Verbs in Latin 2 Present indicative active 3 Imperfect indicative active 4 Present and imperfect indicative of sum 5 Agreement of verb and subject

Latin reading Vocabulary Points to remember

1 Second declension 2 Second declension nouns in -r and -ius 3 Anomalies of the first and second declensions 4 Prepositions 5 Words for and, both, or, either, even, also 6 nec/neque 7 Omission of sum 8 Direct questions (1)

Latin reading Vocabulary Latin and English

1 First and second declension adjectives 2 Agreement of adjectives 3 Adjectives used as nouns 4 Possessive adjectives 5 Future indicative active 6 Perfect indicative active

Vocabulary

1 Pluperfect and future perfect indicative active 2 Adverbial clauses with the indicative 3 Use of the future perfect in adverbial clauses 4 Phrases expressing time (1)

1 Third declension nouns – general remarks 2 Third declension nouns – consonant stems 3 Genitive and ablative of quality (or description) 4 Genitive of characteristic

Vocabulary Roman personal names

1 Third declension nouns – masculine and feminine i-stems 2 Third declension nouns – neuter i-stems 3 -IŌ verbs of the third conjugation (mixed conjugation) 4 Ablative of instrument and ablative of cause 5 Ablative of price and genitive of value

Vocabulary Topography of ancient Rome

1 First and second person pronouns 2 Demonstrative pronouns 3 Motion and position 4 Plural place names and special plural common nouns 5 Dative of possessor

Vocabulary

1 Third declension adjectives – i-stems 2 Third declension adjectives – consonant stems 3 Fourth declension 4 Reflexive pronouns 5 Reflexive possessive adjective

Vocabulary Roman religion

1 Pronominal declension 2 Adjectival clauses

1 Fifth declension 2 Participles 3 Use of participles 4 Ablative of agent 5 Numerals (1)

Roman numerals

1 Ablative absolute 2 Use of participles instead of abstract nouns 3 Uses of the supine 4 Numerals (2)

1 Subjunctive mood 2 Present subjunctive active 3 Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive active 4 Perfect subjunctive active 5 Adverbial clauses of purpose 6 Phrases expressing time (2) 7 Phrases of spatial extent and dimension

The days of the week

1 Present, future, and imperfect passive 2 Perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect passive 3 Infinitives 4 Deponent verbs

1 Possum can, be able 2 Other compounds of sum 3 Fīō be made, become 4 Ferō carry, bear 5 Volō, nōlō, mālō 6 Eō go

Orpheus and Eurydice (1)

1 Adverbial clauses of result 2 Classification of tenses 3 The conjunction cum

Orpheus and Eurydice (2)

1 Indirect speech (1) 2 Indirect statement 3 Adverbs

Sacrilege

1 Gerund 2 Gerundive

Ulysses, come home!

1 Comparison of adjectives 2 Comparison of adverbs 3 Meaning of the comparative and superlative 4 Constructions involving the comparative 5 Constructions involving the superlative

Ovid’s childhood

1 Verbs governing cases other than the accusative 2 Impersonal verbs 3 Passive of intransitive verbs

Latin expressions in English

1 Imperative mood, positive and negative commands 2 Indirect command and petition 3 Medius and similar adjectives

Latin abbreviations in English

1 Uses of the subjunctive in main clauses 2 Conditional sentences

Caesar’s description of the Ancient Britons

1 Direct questions (2) 2 Yes and No 3 Indirect questions 4 Shortened verbal forms

1 The nature of Latin verse, long and short syllables 2 Metrical feet, the hexameter

Aeneas and the Sibyl enter the underworld A medieval Latin poem

1 Elision 2 Caesura in the hexameter 3 The pentameter 4 Oddities in nouns 5 Oddities in verbs

Leander to Hero

1 Further uses of the infinitive 2 Noun clauses

Gyges and the magic ring of invisibility

1 Introduction to further uses of cases in Latin 2 Nominative and vocative 3 Accusative 4 Genitive

The greatest pleasure

1 Dative 2 Ablative 3 Identification of case uses

The Emperor Galba

1 Further adverbial clauses 2 Adverbial clauses of reason 3 Adverbial clauses of time 4 Adverbial clauses of concession

Two poems of Horace

1 Correlatives and clauses of comparison 2 Qui with subjunctive

The Cave of Sleep

1 Indirect speech (2) 2 Change of pronouns, adverbs, etc. in indirect speech 3 Periphrastic fore ut in indirect statement 4 Tense in indirect speech 5 Economy of introductory verbs in indirect speech 6 Rhetorical questions in indirect speech 7 Conditional sentences in indirect statement

The vanity of human wishes

Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Key to exercises Vocabulary Copyright

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