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There are a few ways to learn declensions.Draw out the table and try to fill it in from memory.Note down sentences you come across which involve the declensions you struggle with and test yourself on them...

Nisus was a brave soldier. He had a friend, called Euryalus, whom he loved very much. After the Trojans had taken the city of Troy, Nisus and Euryalus fled to Italy along with a few others. There they fou...

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...

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...

Pliny states that his uncle launched warships (deducit quadriremes) to sail into the bay which suggests that he is going to war against Vesuvius, making this account dramatic. He uses a chiasmus ‘fe...