About the author

Nicholas Oulton read History at Oriel College, Oxford and has an MA in Classics from London University. He taught Latin and Greek for ten years before writing the So you really want to learn Latin course and founding Galore Park in 1998.

Acknowledgements

The author and the publisher would like to thank Stephen Anderson for his generosity and support in producing this book. Stephen studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin and St John’s College, Cambridge. From 1980 to 2015 he taught at Winchester College, where he was Head of Classics from 1984 to 2008 and subsequently Senior Tutor. In October 2015 he took up a new post as Lecturer in Classical Languages at New College, Oxford.

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Introduction

About this book

The answers provided are intended to be for guidance only and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of the possible answers that pupils will give to the various exercises. In general, the pronoun ‘he’ has been suggested where ‘she’ or ‘it’ could equally apply, and alternative translations of the various tenses have not been given. For example where we have suggested ‘he watches’ the answer could usually just as easily have been ‘he is watching’, and where we have suggested ‘he was walking’, the answer could have been ‘he walked’. Similarly, alternative meanings of words have not been given. Thus, for example, where we have given ‘he is watching’, ‘he is looking at’ could usually have been given. As this guide is intended to assist with marking, rather than the correct pronunciation of the Latin, macrons and breves have not been used. Answers to the non-linguistic exercises at the end of each chapter have not been given.

Suggested marks are given in brackets and where possible, these add to a ‘sensible’ total for the exercise. On the whole the marks to the majority of exercises encourage positive rather than negative marking, with the correct translation of a Latin word usually leading to the award of a mark.

1 3rd declension nouns

Exercise 1.1

    1  clamor, clamoris, m. = shout

    2  uxor, uxoris, f. = wife

    3  dux, ducis, c. = leader

[36 marks]

Exercise 1.2

    1  comitis

    2  ad coniuges

    3  hominum

    4  e luce

    5  (o) parentes

    6  cum coniuge

    7  reges

    8  reges

    9  clamore

  10  cum militibus

[10 marks]

Exercise 1.3

    1  Of the king

    2  Of the companion

    3  With the wives

    4  Of the men

    5  Into the light

    6  Against the soldier

    7  Concerning the parents

    8  The shouts

    9  To/for the wife

  10  Near the leader

[10 marks]

Exercise 1.4

    1  We heard the shouts of the women.

[3]

    2  The king has never overcome the companions.

[4]

    3  The leader was watching the soldier’s wife.

[4]

    4  The Romans led the women into the town.

[4]

    5  The soldier showed the light to his wife.

[4]

    6  The girl gave food to her parents.

[4]

    7  The slaves feared the king’s wife.

[4]

    8  The messengers heard the shouts of their companions.

[4]

    9  A man likes to live with his wife.

[5]

  10  Light was present in the sky.

[4]

[40 marks]

Exercise 1.5

    1  flūmen, flūminis, n. = river

    2  iter, itineris, n. = journey

    3  nomen, nominis, n. = name

[36 marks]

Exercise 1.6

    1  reges boni

[2]

    2  discede, rex male!

[3]

    3  militem fessum

[2]

    4  fluminis parvi

[2]

    5  corpori novo

[2]

    6  cum duce bono

[3]

    7  ad flumen magnum

[3]

    8  itinera longa

[2]

    9  cum militibus nostris

[3]

  10  uxor/coniunx ducis irati

[3]

[25 marks]

Exercise 1.7

    1  Into the deep river

[3]

    2  In the deep river

[3]

    3  Near the big body

[3]

    4  Against the tired soldiers

[3]

    5  With the bad king

[3]

    6  My wife is singing.

[3]

    7  You watch the beautiful wives.

[3]

    8  A king called Romulus

[3]

    9  I heard loud (great) shouts.

[3]

  10  Through the bright light

[3]

[30 marks]

Exercise 1.8

    1  A bad king, called Tarquinius, was terrifying the Romans for a long time.

[7]

    2  A girl called Lucretia was afraid of the king’s savage son.

[7]

    3  Brutus’s soldiers wanted Tarquinius to leave the city.

[7]

    4  Tarquinius Superbus asked for help from a king called Porsenna.

[8]

    5  Porsenna hurried towards the river with many soldiers.

[7]

    6  ‘Do you want to save our city?’ asked Brutus.

[6]

    7  ‘I want to overcome the savage enemy’ said Horatius.

[7]

    8  The strong soldier bravely defended the city with his Roman companions.

[8]

    9  The savage king watched the Roman soldiers for a long time.

[6]

  10  At last the king, called Porsenna, departed from the river.

[7]

[70 marks]

Exercise 1.9

When the Greeks took the city of Troy by storm, Ulysses sailed with his companions to the island of Aeolia. Aeolus, the king of the winds, lived in the island. Ulysses and his companions remained for a long time with the king. At last, when the Greeks wanted to leave, Aeolus let loose the westerly wind; however he kept the other winds in a bag. He gave the bag to the famous leader and warned him about the winds. ‘Hold the bag’ he said ‘and sail (back) to your fatherland with your companions. The westerly wind always leads towards Ithaca.’

When they were drawing close to his fatherland, because he was tired, Ulysses went to sleep. However his companions did not sleep. His companions looked at their leader’s bag and asked ‘Why is he always holding the bag? What does Ulysses keep in the bag?’

One of his companions approached the leader and took the bag. ‘He is carrying gold in the bag!’ he said. ‘King Aeolus gave our leader gold!’

The companions were angry and opened the bag. Immediately the winds rushed out of the bag and drove the ship back to the island of Aeolia. In vain Ulysses and his companions asked for help from the king. ‘Ulysses is an enemy of the gods’ cried the king. Therefore the Greeks hurried into their ship and left the island. However the wind was no longer (not now) blowing them towards their homeland.

[50 marks]

Exercise 1.10

    1  Regal means king-like; regem means king.

    2  Conjugal means to do with marriage; coniugis means of a husband/wife.

    3  An itinerary is a plan for a journey; itineris means of a journey.

    4  Urban means to do with a city; urbem means city.

    5  Military means to do with soldiers; milites means soldiers.

    6  The navy is a collection of ships; navem means a ship.

    7  To frustrate means to prevent something happening; frustra means in vain. If a plan has been frustrated, it has been in vain.

    8  A mansion is a house where one remains or stays; manserunt means they remained.

    9  Patriotic means loving one’s country; patriam means country or fatherland.

  10  Irate means angry; irati means angry.

[20 marks]