Latin

Mike Seigel

Description

A clear and concise guide to Latin designed to lead students between the ages of 14 to 18 through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists, and translation exercises, and onto mastery of the language.

A clear and concise guide to Latin designed to lead students between the ages of 14 to 18 through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists, and translation exercises, and onto mastery of the language. Each chapter is carefully focussed and complete with vocabulary lists to effortlessly build upon past lessons.

Foreword; Introductions; Revision of Case Usage; Time, Manner, Place; The Infinitive; Participles; Relative Clauses; Indirect Statement; Purpose Clauses; Result Clauses; Direct Commands; Indirect Commands;  Direct Questions; Indirect Questions; Uses of cum; Simple Causal and Concessive Clauses; Temporal Clauses; Simple Conditional Clauses; Verbs of Fearing; Passages for Translation; Further Passages for Translation; Independent Uses of the Subjunctive; Relative Clauses with the Subjunctive; Further Conditional Clauses;Further Indirect Questions; Gerunds and Gerundives; Gerunds and Gerundives of Obligation; Impersonal Verbs; The Predicative Dative; Harder Passages for Translation; Verse Passages for Translation; Passages for Prose Composition Vocabulary Lists

Informations

• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 20
• EAN13: 9780857286901
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

LATIN A Clear Guide to Syntax

Mike Seigel

Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com

This edition first published in UK and USA 2009 by ANTHEM PRESS 7576 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave. #116, New York, NY 10016, USA

Copyright © Mike Seigel 2009

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

Images reproduced courtesy of: Leo Curran, the AncientWorlds website, Ronald Embleton, Mark Hegarty, David Camden, F. Trefeau, the Mary Evans Picture Library, Barnaby's Picture Gallery, Paula Chabot, Leslie Noles, John Traupman and Barbara McManus.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Seigel, Mike. Latin : a clear guide to syntax/Mike Seigel. p. cm. ISBN 9781843312987 (pbk.) 1. Latin language—Word order. 2. Latin language—Clauses. 3. Latin language—Syntax. I. Title.

PA2293.S45 2008 475—dc22 2007048802

ISBN10: 1 84331 298 0 (Pbk) ISBN13: 978 1 84331 298 7 (Pbk)

1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

Printed in India

FOR

Wendy, Emma and Alexander

And for my numerous pupils, past, present and future

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MIKE SEIGEL

Mike Seigel has had a distinguished academic and teaching career. After being educated at St Paul’s School, he won an Exhibition to New College, Oxford, to read Classics. After rejoining St Paul’s School in 1973 as a teacher, Mike became Head of Classics at Colet Court (St Paul’s Prep School) in 1976 until 1987, dur ing which period more than 80 of his pupils succeeded in getting scholarships to the most prestigious independent schools in the UK, including Eton, St Paul’s, Winchester and Westminster. He then concentrated his teaching to the GCSE and A Level classes and was also a Careers and University Adviser at the school with special responsibility for those going abroad for their higher education (mainly to US universities), before becoming Headmaster of Rokeby, Kingston upon Thames, in August 1999. He served as Head for eight years, during which time he oversaw many developments of the school and became actively involved with the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools, serving on several educational committees. He has now returned to the classroom for the next stage of his career and is teaching Latin and Greek at all levels at Tiffin Boys’ School, Kingston.

Mike Seigel is married with two ‘young adult’ children.

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CONTENTS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

Foreword

Introduction

Revision of Case Usage

Time, Manner, Place

The Infinitive

Participles

Relative Clauses

Indirect Statement

Purpose Clauses

Result Clauses

Direct Commands

Indirect Commands

Direct Questions

Indirect Questions

Uses ofcum

Simple Causal and Concessive Clauses

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ix

xi

1

7

15

19

25

29

35

39

43

47

53

57

61

65

29

19

30

17

18

87

69

81

15

77

105

109

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CONTENTS

26

101

113

119

123

Gerunds and Gerundives

73

95

Further Indirect Questions

23

21

24

Passages for Translation

Verbs of Fearing

22

20

Further Passages for Translation

Simple Conditional Clauses

16

Temporal Clauses

The Predicative Dative

127

151

145

137

131

Independent Uses of the Subjunctive

Further Conditional Clauses

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General Vocabulary

28

Harder Passages for Translation

Gerunds and Gerundives of Obligation

Relative Clauses with the Subjunctive

Impersonal Verbs

Passages for Prose Composition

Verse Passages for Translation

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FOREWORD

The study of Latin provides a firm foundation for the learning of other languages both ancient and modern, as well as promoting greater clarity of expression in the pupil’s own language. I am convinced that such a foundation is as important today as it has ever been and I commend this new book warmly both to teachers and to pupils. Mr Seigel’s aim is to expound and illustrate all the basic Latin construc tions. His explanations are clear and concise, and make the book a valuable vade mecum, as well as an excellent source of material, for those pupils who already have some two years of Latin behind them and who want to secure their grasp of syntax, extend their vocabulary and improve their translation skills.

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R.S. Baldock The High Master St Paul’s School, London, 1995