Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition : From Antiquity to the Renaissance

by Minkova, Milena

• ISBN13: 9781585100903
• ISBN10: 1585100900
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Focus Pub R Pullins & Co

Summary

Readings and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition provides a refreshing approach for the standard Latin composition course offered at the college level. In Readings and Exercises the student is encouraged to think in Latin through the process of reading u

Author Biography

Milena Minkova teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of several textbooks in Latin, including "Reading and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition" for Focus Publishing. Terence Tunberg teaches Latin Composition, Latin Literature, and Classics at the University of Kentucky. He has won international prizes in Latin Composition. He is the author of several textbooks in Latin, including "Reading and Exercises in Latin Prose Composition" for Focus Publishing.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
The structure of the simple sentence. Active and passive voice; deponent verbs; impersonal verbs; copula and predicate nominative. Subject, direct object, indirect object, modifier. Agreement of the verb and the subject. Agreement of adjectives, pronouns and participles. Adverbs	1	(6)
Reading: Livy, Ab urbe condita, III, 26
Word-order. General tendencies. The position of the subject, the direct object, the indirect object, other complements; adjectives; appositions; modifiers; adverbs; pronouns. Some special uses	7	(6)
Readings: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, III, 14; II, 58
Expressions of place	13	(8)
Reading: Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, VI, 16
Expressions of time	21	(6)
Reading: Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, III, 1
Use of tenses in the main clause (with occasional reference to their use in the subordinate clause)	27	(6)
Readings: Liber Isaiae, 35; Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae, 31; 47
Expressions of instrument, manner, accompaniment, price, degree of difference	33	(6)
Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Laus stultitiae, praefatio
Expressions of quality, quantity, abundance, lack, cause, origin, comparison, material, topic, aim, restriction, address	39	(10)
Reading: Caesar, De bello Gallico, VI, 13-28
Statement of fact, negative statement of fact, statement of possibility, and counterfactual statement	49	(6)
Reading: Cicero, De amicitia, 19-23
Question, doubt or deliberation, command, prohibition, exhortation, wish, concession, exclamation	55	(8)
Reading: Plautus, Curculio, 599-678
Impersonal verbs	63	(6)
Reading: Thomas More, Utopia, II, De commerciis mutuis; II, De peregrinatione Utopiensium
Substantival infinitive. Gerund. Gerundive	69	(8)
Readings: Elred, De amicitia, 1; Einhard, Vita Caroli Magni, 22; 23; 24
Coordination in clauses and sentences: copulative, disjunctive, adversative, causal, consecutive connections	77	(8)
Readings: Petronius, Satiricon, 111-112; Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, 18-21
The use of tenses, moods and pronouns in subordinate clauses	85	(6)
Readings: Cicero, De senectute, VII, 22-24; IX, 27-28; IX, 29; IX, 32
Substantival clauses: accusative and infinitive, indirect questions, objective ut-clauses	91	(8)
Readings: Cicero, De oratore, II, 1-5; Cicero, In Catilinam, I,1
Substantival clauses: explicative quod, explicative ut, verbs of fearing, verbs of preventing and refusing, non dubito quin	99	(8)
Readings: St. Augustine, De civitate Dei, XXII, 8, 6; St. Ambrose, De excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae, V, 53; St. Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, in psalmum XCV enarratio, 14; Lactantius, Divinae institutiones, III, 21; St. Jerome, Epistulae, XXI
Adjectival clauses: relative clauses, attributive participle	107	(6)
Reading: Seneca, Epistulae, 56
Adverbial clauses: temporal clauses	113	(6)
Reading: Tacitus, Annales, XV, 38-44
Adverbial clauses: final (purpose) clauses and causal clauses	119	(8)
Reading: Abelard, Historia calamitatum, Quomodo in amorem Heloisae lapsus vulnus inde tam mentis quam corporis traxerit
Adverbial clauses: consecutive (result) clauses, concessive clauses	127	(8)
Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, Epistula ad Nicolaum Varium Marvillanum
Adverbial clauses: conditional sentences	135	(6)
Reading: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes, V, 66-69
Adverbial clauses: comparative, adversative, restrictive clauses	141	(8)
Reading: Abelard, Historia calamitatum, Dehortatio supradictae puellae a nuptiis; de plaga illa corporis
Oratio obliqua or indirect speech: main clauses and subordinate clauses in indirect speech; pronouns and adverbs in indirect speech	149	(8)
Reading: Cicero, In Verrem, II, 4; Caesar, De bello Gallico, VII, 20; Livy, Ab urbe condita, XXI, 30; Seneca, Epistulae, 53
Conditional sentences in indirect speech	157	(6)
Readings: Cornelius Nepos, Vita Attici, 1-5
Order of clauses	163	(8)
Reading: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta, 1-10
Variation	171	(10)
Reading: Erasmus of Rotterdam, De copia, ``Tuae litterae me magnopere delectarunt''
Appendix: The Conventions of Latin Writing in the Post-Medieval World	181