Intermediate Latin

(This paper is available only to those undergraduates who offered Mods Paper III-IV C.2 and, with the permission of the Standing Committee, to others with equivalent knowledge of Latin. It is not normally available to candidates with a qualification in Latin above AS-level or equivalent, nor to those who took paper C3 Intermediate Latin in Mods.)

This course is designed to continue study of the language from Beginning Latin in Mods (Paper III-IV, C.2) and to bring students to a more advanced knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary. Candidates will be required to show an intermediate level knowledge of Latin grammar and vocabulary (including all syntax and morphology).

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, 48, 52, 58, 63-4, 70-1, 79; Tacitus, Agricola (Oxford Classical Text); Pliny, letters in A N. Sherwin-White, Fifty Letters of Pliny, second edn. (Oxford, 1969), nos. 1-3, 6-7, 9, 15-20, 25, 27, 29, 33-4, 36, 38-40, 47-48. The paper will consist of a passage of unseen prose translation, three further passages for translation from the two prescribed texts, and grammatical questions on the prescribed texts. Convenor for ancient language courses: J. Kerkhecker, Ioannou Centre