Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose

Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition provides a refreshing approach for the standard Latin composition course offered at the college level. In Readings and Exercises the student is encouraged to think in Latin through the process of reading u

Milena Minkova teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of several textbooks in Latin, including "Reading and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition" for Focus Publishing. Terence Tunberg teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. He has won international prizes in Latin Composition. He is the author of several textbooks in Latin, including "Reading and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition" for Focus Publishing.

Preface

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The structure of the simple sentence. Active and passive voice; deponent verbs; impersonal verbs; copula and predicate nominative. Subject, direct object, indirect object, modifier. Agreement of the verb and the subject. Agreement of adjectives, pronouns and participles. Adverbs

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Reading: Livy, Ab urbe condita, III, 26

Word-order. General tendencies. The position of the subject, the direct object, the indirect object, other complements; adjectives; appositions; modifiers; adverbs; pronouns. Some special uses

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Readings: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, III, 14; II, 58

Expressions of place

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Reading: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, VI, 16

Expressions of time

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Reading: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, III, 1

Use of tenses in the main clause (with occasional reference to their use in the subordinate clause)

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Readings: Liber Isaiae, 35; Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae, 31; 47

Expressions of instrument, manner, accompaniment, price, degree of difference

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Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Laus stultitiae, praefatio

Expressions of quality, quantity, abundance, lack, cause, origin, comparison, material, topic, aim, restriction, address

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Reading: Caesar, De bello Gallico, VI, 13-28

Statement of fact, negative statement of fact, statement of possibility, and counterfactual statement

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Reading: Cicero, De amicitia, 19-23

Question, doubt or deliberation, command, prohibition, exhortation, wish, concession, exclamation

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Reading: Plautus, Curculio, 599-678

Impersonal verbs

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Reading: Thomas More, Utopia, II, De commerciis mutuis; II, De peregrinatione Utopiensium

Substantival infinitive. Gerund. Gerundive

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Readings: Elred, De amicitia, 1; Einhard, Vita Caroli Magni, 22; 23; 24

Coordination in clauses and sentences: copulative, disjunctive, adversative, causal, consecutive connections

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Readings: Petronius, Satiricon, 111-112; Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, 18-21

The use of tenses, moods and pronouns in subordinate clauses

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Readings: Cicero, De senectute, VII, 22-24; IX, 27-28; IX, 29; IX, 32

Substantival clauses: accusative and infinitive, indirect questions, objective ut-clauses

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Readings: Cicero, De oratore, II, 1-5; Cicero, In Catilinam, I,1

Substantival clauses: explicative quod, explicative ut, verbs of fearing, verbs of preventing and refusing, non dubito quin

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Readings: St. Augustine, De civitate Dei, XXII, 8, 6; St. Ambrose, De excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, V, 53; St. Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, in psalmum XCV enarratio, 14; Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, III, 21; St. Jerome, Epistulae, XXI

Adjectival clauses: relative clauses, attributive participle

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Reading: Seneca, Epistulae, 56

Adverbial clauses: temporal clauses

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Reading: Tacitus, Annales, XV, 38-44

Adverbial clauses: final (purpose) clauses and causal clauses

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Reading: Abelard, Historia calamitatum, Quomodo in amorem Heloisae lapsus vulnus inde tam mentis quam corporis traxerit

Adverbial clauses: consecutive (result) clauses, concessive clauses

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Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Epistula ad Nicolaum Varium Marvillanum

Adverbial clauses: conditional sentences

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Reading: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, V, 66-69

Adverbial clauses: comparative, adversative, restrictive clauses

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Reading: Abelard, Historia calamitatum, Dehortatio supradictae puellae a nuptiis; de plaga illa corporis

Oratio obliqua or indirect speech: main clauses and subordinate clauses in indirect speech; pronouns and adverbs in indirect speech

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Reading: Cicero, In Verrem, II, 4; Caesar, De bello Gallico, VII, 20; Livy, Ab urbe condita, XXI, 30; Seneca, Epistulae, 53

Conditional sentences in indirect speech

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Readings: Cornelius Nepos, Vita Attici, 1-5

Order of clauses

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Reading: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta, 1-10

Variation

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Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, De copia, ``Tuae litterae me magnopere delectarunt''

Appendix: The Conventions of Latin Writing in the Post-Medieval World

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Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition : From Antiquity to the Renaissance

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