The Latin Language: A Handbook for Students

This textbook has been prepared to help students translate from Latin to English. It should be particularly useful to students who have progressed beyond their introductory course books and are now reading Latin authors. It concentrates on the 'rules' rather than on the exception to rules which may never be encountered in traditional school authors and tend only to confuse students.After an explanation on each Latin construction, there are graded exercises to practise the translation of that construction. There are also notes and exercises on Latin words and usages which cut across more than one construction, e.g.- Translating ut- Translating quam- The uses of qui- Uses of the Subjunctive- Dative or Ablative?The section on Translation is designed to train students to use the clues as they meet them in a sentence in order to help them predict intelligently (rather than guess) how the sentence is likely to develop.The book also contains grammatical tables, a simplified guide to pronunciation and a vocabulary of the words used in the exercises.