Intermediate Latin

(This subject is not available to candidates with a qualification in Latin above AS-level or equivalent.)
Candidates will be required to show an intermediate level knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary (including all syntax and morphology, as laid out in Kennedy’s Revised Latin Primer).
The set texts for the course are: Cicero, letters in D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Cicero: Select Letters (Cambridge, 1980), nos 9, 17, 23, 27, 39, 42-3, 45; Tacitus, Agricola (Oxford Classical Text); Pliny, letters in A. N. Sherwin-White, Fifty Letters of Pliny, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1969), nos 25, 29.
The paper will consist of a passage of unseen prose translation, three further passages for translation from the prescribed texts, and grammatical questions on the prescribed texts.

Useful editions with commentaries:

Cicero: Select Letters, ed. D. R. Shackleton Bailey (Cambridge: CUP, 1980);

Cornelii Taciti, De Vita Agricolae, eds R. M. Ogilvie and I. RicMDond (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967);

Fifty Letters of Pliny, ed. A. N. Sherwin-White, 2^nd edn (Oxford: OUP, 1969).

This course will be taught by Faculty classes, for three hours per week during Michaelmas and Hilary Terms.

Convenor for Ancient Language Coursee: Ms Kerkhecker.