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Oxford Latin course : Part I

Combines the features of modern and traditional methods of Latin teaching from first stages to GCSE. This work provides an approach to Latin based on the reading of original texts. Parts I-III in it are built around the life of Horace, based on historical sources, which helps students develop an understanding of the times of Cicero and Augustus.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©1999
Problems and exercises
3 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780199122264, 9780199122271, 9780199122288, 0199122261, 019912227X, 0199122288
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1. Quintus Delphos visit ; Delphi ; 2. Quintus militat ; The Roman army - 1 ; 3. Scintilla desperat ; The Roman army - 2 ; 4. Philippi ; Brutus and Cassius ; 5. Quintus Athenas fugit ; Octavian returns to Italy ; 6. Quintus Venusiam revisit ; The confiscations ; 7. Quintus amico veteri occurrit ; Latin poetry ; 8. Quintus carmina facit ; Horace ; 9. Popeius ad patriam revenit ; Books ; 10. Quintus Maecenati commendatur ; Maecenas ; 11. Quintus iter Brundisium facit ; Travel ; 12. Quintus a molesto quodam vexatur ; Patrons and clients ; 13. Quintus rusticus fit ; Houses ; 14. Actium ; Divorce ; 15. Bellum Alexandrinum ; Cleopatra ; 16. Caesar Augustus ; Caesar Augustus ; 17. Augustus Quintum in amicitiam suam accipit ; Vixi puellis ; 18. Maecenas poetas fovet ; The Roman empire ; 19. Pax et princeps ; Some glimpses of Augustus ; 20. Quintus rusticus ; The town mouse and the country mouse ; 21. Indomita mors ; Death ; Appendix 1: Rome's imperial mission ; Appendix 2: Continuous indirect speech ; Appendix 3: Uses of the indicative and subjunctive ; Reference grammar ; Latin-English vocabulary ; English-Latin vocabulary ; Index of grammar
Reprint. originally published : 1996
Includes indexes
Text in English and Latin