SHORT COURSE TWO

UNIT 3

General Instructions

 

eugepae! gaudeamus! Super! Let’s celebrate!

You have just passed the halfway point of SHORT COURSE TWO. This could be called "The Point of No Return".

Legend tells that Phaeton, son of Apollo, asked his father to allow him to drive the sun-chariot across the sky. Phaeton, though unequal to the task, reached the midway point and ................. If you want to know what happened, then you will need to continue with your studies, or you can cheat and read the story in translation. It comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

To look at the situation in another way; if you were HERCULES, you would have completed 6 of your 12 tasks.

So what lies ahead in Unit 3?

You have now mastered basic Latin grammar and have a working knowledge of vocabulary and the use of relevant reference materials. The time has come to see how Latin uses language structures to express more complex ideas and thoughts.

itaque progrediamur, discipuli! And so let’s go on, learners!

feliciter!

SHORT LATIN STORIES

Take Short Latin Stories.

Turn to p 37, story 28.

Read the story called A Woodland Nymph is Transformed.

Translate A Woodland Nymph is Transformed.

A vocabulary is supplied to help you.

Go to the GRAMMAR file.

Find the section called Cum And The Subjunctive.

Study the notes carefully and complete the exercises.

Imperfect & Pluperfect Subjunctive endings.

 

SHORT LATIN STORIES

Take Short Latin Stories.

Turn to p 38, story 29.

Read the story called An Officer Who Looked for Discipline to the Very End.

Translate An Officer Who Looked for Discipline to the Very End.

A vocabulary is supplied to help you.

Take your GRAMMAR FILE.

Find the section called Direct Questions.

Study the notes and complete the exercises.

Find the section called Indirect Questions.

Study the notes and complete the exercises.

Qustion words listed under Direct Questions.

Revise the Imperfect & Pluperfect Subjunctive endings

SHORT LATIN STORIES

Take Short Latin Stories.

Turn to p 40, story 30.

Read the story called A Very Clever Thief.

Translate A Very Clever Thief.

A vocabulary list is supplied to help you.

SHORT LATIN STORIES

Take Short Latin Stories.

Turn to p 41, story 31.

Read the story called The Abduction of the Sabine Women.

Translate The Abduction of the Sabine Women.

A vocabulary list is supplied to help you.

Go to the GRAMMAR FILE.

Find the section called Ut Clauses purpose.

Study the information and complete the exercises.

How to translate ut followed by the Subjunctive, Purpose.

SHORT LATIN STORIES

 

Take Short Latin Stories.

Turn to p43, story 33.

Read the story called Borrowed Plumes.

Translate Borrowed Plumes.

A vocabulary list is supplied to help you.

Go to the GRAMMAR FILE.

Study the section called ut clauses, Indirect Command and complete the exercises.