Wiley's Real Latin Learning Latin from the Source

This innovative guide to the Latin language, written for a new generation of students, deploys examples and translation exercises taken exclusively from the Classical Latin canon.

• Translation exercises use real Latin from a variety of sources, including political speeches, letters, history, poetry, and plays, and from a range of authors, including Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, Catullus, Ovid, and Plautus, among others
• Offers a variety of engaging, informative pedagogical features to help students practice and contextualize lessons in the main narrative
• Prepares students for immersion in the great works of Classical Latin literature
• A companion website provides additional exercises and drills for students and teachers

Robert Maltby is Emeritus Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Leeds. His previous publications include A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies (1991), Tibullus Elegies: Text, Introduction and Commentary (2002), and Terence: Phormio (2012).

Kenneth Belcher is a Teaching Fellow in Classics at the University of Leeds, where he lectures in Latin and Greek literature and language. He has contributed conference papers in the UK and internationally.

Introduction

1.parts of speech

2.pronunciation

Chapter 1

1.nouns: uses of cases

2.first declension

3.verbs

4.first conjugation: present indicative active

5.irregular verbs: sum, possum

6.demonstrative pronoun: hic

7.prepositions: ab, ad, ante, cum, ex, in, post, sub

8.conjunctions: et, sed

Review: Chapter 1

Chapter 2

1.second declension nouns in -us, -er -r and –um

2.adjectives of the first and second declension

3.agreement of adjectives and nouns

4.adjectives and pronouns used as nouns

5.second conjugation: present indicative active

6.imperfect indicative active of first and second conjugations, sum  and possum

7.demonstrative pronoun: is

Chapter 3

1.direct questions

2.interrogative pronoun: quis?

3.interrogative adjective: qui 

4.personal pronouns

5.demonstrative pronoun: ille

6.third conjugation: present and imperfect indicative active

7.uses of cases: partitive genitive and subjective and objective genitive

Chapter 4

1.third declension nouns: consonant stem and -i stem

2.third declension adjectives

3.uses of cases: dative of possessor

Chapter 5

1.fourth and fifth declension nouns

2.fourth and mixed conjugation: present and imperfect indicative active

3.future indicative active: all conjugations and irregular verbs sum and possum

4.uses of cases: adverbial accusative

Chapter 6

1.perfect indicative active: all conjugations, sum and possum

2.future perfect indicative active: all conjugations, sum and possum

3.pluperfect indicative active: all conjugations, sum and possum

4.uses of cases: ablative of means and instrument

Review: Chapters 2-6

Chapter 7

1.passive voice: present indicative passive: all conjugations

2.future indicative passive: all conjugations

3.imperfect indicative passive: all conjugations

4.relative pronoun: qui

5.uses of cases: accusative: place, space and time; ablative: time, place and agent

Chapter 8

1.participles: declension of present, perfect and future

2.uses of participles: attributive; circumstantial: temporal, causal, concessive

Chapter 9

1.passive voice continued: perfect, pluperfect and future perfect: all conjugations

2.uses of cases: ablative absolute, ablative of cause

Chapter 10

1.infinitives: active and passive: present perfect and future

2.reported/indirect statement: accusative and infinitive

3.pronouns: reflexive

4.syncopated forms of the perfect

Chapter 11

1.deponent verbs: all tenses, all conjugations

2.participles of deponent verbs

3.causal clauses: quia, quoniam and quod

4.uses of cases: genitive of characteristic

Chapter 12

1.irregular verbs: fero, volo, nolo, malo, eo, fio

2.uses of cases: ablative of description; genitive of quality (description).

Review: Chapters 7-12

Chapter 13

1.subjunctive mood

2.present perfect imperfect and pluperfect: all conjugations and sum, possum,

 fio, fero, volo, eo

3.independent uses: jussive, deliberative, potential, optative

4.uses of cases: locative

Chapter 14

1.subjunctive: passive voice, all tenses and conjugations

2.sequence of tenses

3.purpose and result clauses

4.noun clauses introduced by ut

Chapter 15

1.gerunds and gerundives

2.formation of gerunds and gerundives

3.uses of the gerund

4.uses of the gerundive

5.supine: formation and uses

6.uses of cases: ablative of price, ablative of respect, genitive of value

Chapter 16

1.cum clauses: temporal, causal, concessive

2.subjunctive in relative clauses: purpose, generic/characteristic, result

3.pronominal adjectives: alter, alius, neuter, nullus, solus, totus, ullus, unus, uter

Review: Chapters 13-16

Chapter 17

1.direct questions: alternative direct questions

2.indirect questions: alternative indirect questions

3.verbs governing the dative

4.impersonal passive

5.uses of cases: predicative dative; dative of interest; double dative

Chapter 18

1.imperative mood

2.negative commands (prohibitions)

3.indirect/reported commands

4.verbs governing the genitive

5.verbs governing the ablative

Chapter 19

1.degrees of comparison: comparative and superlative

2.comparison of adjectives

3.comparison of adverbs

4.irregular comparison

5.constructions with comparative and superlative

6.constructions with verbs of fearing

Chapter 20

1.conditional sentences

2.simple conditions: past and present

3.future conditions

4.unfulfilled conditions: past, present and mixed

5.constructions with verbs of doubting/hesitating

6.constructions with verbs of hindering, preventing and forbidding

Chapter 21

1.temporal clauses: antequam and priusquam

2.dum clauses

3.more on indirect speech: fore ut + subjunctive

4.subordinate clauses in indirect speech

Review: Chapters 17-21

Appendices

Appendix 1: Verbs followed by Complementary Infinitive

Appendix 2: idem, iste, ipse

Appendix 3: Numbers

Appendix 4: nolo, malo, fio

Appendix 5: Perfect and Pluperfect Subjunctive

Appendix 6: Roman names; Biographies of Authors

Appendix 7: ‘Future’ Imperative

Appendix 8: Timeline of Events

Vocabulary: Latin to English

Vocabulary: English to Latin

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