The Complete Latin Course

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Latin alphabet
1 Myth, legend and history
	Nouns and verbs
	Nouns: subjects and objects
	Verbs
	The nominative case
	The accusative case
	Readings
2 The Republic
	The genitive case
	The dative case
	The ablative case
	Prepositions
	The vocative case
	est and sunt
	Readings
3 Carthage
	Singular and plural: nominative and accusative
	Genitive, dative and ablative plural
	Gender
	Neuter nouns
	Summary: puella, servus and vīnum
	Readings
4 Greece
	Questions
	Adjectives: bonus, bona, bonum
	Agreement of an adjective and noun
	2nd declension nouns ending -er
	Adjectives as nouns
	Readings
5 New factions and old families
	Genitive and dative expressing ownership
	Past participles
	Past participles with est or sunt
	Translating past participles
	sum, esse
	Readings
6 The Republic under strain
	Verbs
	The present tense
	The infinitive
	The perfect tense
	Perfect stems
	Principal parts
	Principal parts: 1st conjugation
	Missing words or words ‘understood’
	More adjectives acting as nouns
	Readings
7 Friends and enemies
	Verbs: 2nd conjugation
	3rd declension nouns
	Him, her and them
	His and her
	Readings
8 Civil war
	3rd declension nouns (neuter)
	‘3rd declension’ adjectives
	Possessive adjectives
	Readings
9 The Ides of March
	Verbs: revision
	3rd conjugation verbs
	4th conjugation verbs
	Mixed conjugation verbs
	Summary: all five conjugations
	Readings
10 A woman in politics
	Nouns: 4th declension
	Irregular verbs: sum, possum, volō, eō, ferō
	Verbs followed by an infinitive
	Readings
11 Politics and marriage
	Verbs: the imperfect tense
	The pluperfect tense
	Numbers
	Readings
12 The sweetness of peace
	Nouns: 5th declension
	The future tense
	The future tense of irregular verbs
	Imperatives
	Uses of the accusative
	Uses of the ablative
	Readings
13 Dissenting voices
	The future perfect tense
	Tenses review
	Principal parts review
	Compound verbs
	Readings
14 Songs and suppers
	The passive voice
	Personal pronouns: 1st and 2nd persons
	Personal pronouns: 3rd person
	hic, haec, hoc
	ille, illa, illud
	is, ea, id
	Reflexive pronoun: sē
	ipse, ipsa, ipsum
	Readings
15 Tales of love
	Introducing the subjunctive
	The present subjunctive
	Deponent verbs
	Readings
16 Women: warriors, drunks and literary critics
	The imperfect subjunctive
	ut or nē to express purpose
	Sequence of tenses: primary and historic
	ut or nē with an indirect command
	ut to express a consquence or result
	ut with the indicative
	The perfect subjunctive
	The pluperfect subjunctive
	The subjunctive after cum
	The subjunctive after a verb expressing fear
	The subjunctive in an indirect question
	Summary: ut and nē
	Readings
17 Family ties
	Interrogative: who, what or which asking a question
	Relative: who, which giving information
	Indefinite: any, anyone, anything
	Summary: quis/quī
	More adjectives: alius, tōtus, nūllus, ūllus and sōlus
	Readings
18 Slavery
	quod
	quam
	aliquis, aliqua, aliquid
	alter, altera, alterum
	quisquis, quidquid
	quisquam, quidquam
	quisque, quaeque, quodque
	quīdam
	quō and quā
	Readings
19 Education
	Adjectives
	Adverbs
	Comparison
	Comparative adverbs
	The superlative
	Superlative adverbs
	Readings
20 Life at work
	Past participles
	The ablative absolute
	Present participles
	Participles with dependent nouns
	Future participles
	Summary: participles
	Translating participles
	Readings
21 Life at leisure
	Conditional clauses
	The partitive genitive
	Irregular verbs: volō, nōlō, mālō
	Irregular verb: fīō
	Readings
22 Fugit irreparabile tempus
	Infinitives
	Reported speech, thoughts and feelings
	The accusative and infinitive
	Infinitives: present, past and future
	The ‘other party’ subjunctive
	More on the relexive pronoun and adjective: sē and suus
	Readings
23 On the edge of the world
	Gerunds
	Gerundives
	Readings
24 Gods and spirits
	Impersonal verbs
	Transitive and intransitive verbs
	Revision of the uses of the subjunctive
	Readings
25 Rough justice
	Words working in pairs
	The nominative case reviewed
	The accusative case reviewed
	The genitive case reviewed
	Readings
26 Christianity
	The dative case reviewed
	The ablative case reviewed
	Readings
The pronunciation of classical Latin
Timeline of Latin writers
Grammar summary
Index of examples
Index of grammar
Abbreviations
Latin to English vocabulary
English to Latin vocabulary
Additional online support