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What are the main types of conditionals in Latin? How do you construct them? How do you translate them?

If you are translating into English from Latin, conditional sentences are identified by either si or nisi of it is a negative statement, translated as if or unless respectively. Once that has been spotted...

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How does Virgil make this passage exciting for his reader?

This question is for the verse literature paper in A-Level (or GCSE) Latin. Students will have translated and analysed a text about which they will be asked literary questions of varying length. This ques...

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How does the stag scene in Aeneid 1 (180-197) characterise Aeneas?

Aeneas is presented like a hunter here: the stag is a prey animal so Aeneas becomes the predator. Aeneas kills seven stags, having just landed in Carthage - he is the foreigner, the 'gues...

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Translate: Abydeni (citizens of Abydos) legatos ad regem de condicionibus tradendae urbis miserunt.

We are given that 'Abydeni' means 'citizens of Abydos'. This is the subject of the sentence; we now move to the verb, 'miserunt'. This is from the past tense of 'mittere', meaning 'to send'. So we know th...

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How does the sequence of tenses work?

The sequence of tenses is used in purpose clauses, indirect commands, fear clauses and result clauses. It decides which form of the subjunctive should be used in the subordinate clause. There are two type...

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