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" Learn Latin : "
Peter Jones.
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BL
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880918
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Jones, P. V., (Peter V.)
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Learn Latin : : a lively introduction to reading the language /\ Peter Jones.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Barnes & Noble Books,, 1998.
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176 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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0760708428
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: 0760708436
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: 9780760708422
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: 9780760708439
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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[1.] amo, amas, amat ... The world of Rome : from Romulus to empire -- Word play : Romans in Britain -- [2.] More verbs : moneo, rego, audio, capio. The world of Rome : From rape to republic -- Word play : Anglo-Saxons and Normans -- [3.] Nouns : Corinna and Delia. Carmina Burana -- The world of Rome : the first Roman emperor -- Word play : the Norman influence -- [4.] Nouns : William, Harold and the great 'I am'. The world of Rome : the Roman Empire -- Word play : the 16th-20th centuries -- [5.] Prepositions, prohibitions and possum. The world of Rome : The rape of Lucretia -- Word play : prefixes and suffixes -- [6.] Nouns : the third declension. The world of Rome : the treacherous schoolmaster -- Word play : False derivations -- [7.] Giving orders and learning plurals. Bayeux tapestry -- The world of Rome : Hannibal crosses the Alps -- Word play : spelling conventions -- [8.] The perfect active and vocatives. Bayeux Tapestry, Carmina Burana -- The world of Rome : the grandest old Roman -- Word play : tense and aspect -- [9.] Personal pronouns and the dative case. Martial -- The world of Rome : the Ides of March -- Word play : word order and case -- [10.] More datives and eo. St John 12, St Luke 6 -- The world of Rome : an emperor's legacy -- Word play : Augustus -- [11.] The imperfect active. St John 1, adeste fideles, St Luke 2 -- The world of Rome : worshipping strange gods -- Word play : Gerundives -- [12.] Perfects and participles. St John 19 -- The world of Rome : Dealing with Christians -- Word play : '-ant' or '-ent'? -- [13.] volo, nolo, malo : the acc. and inf. . The world of Rome : Caesar in Britain -- Word play : se-xy stuff -- [14.] The perfect passive. Catullus 85, 70 -- The world of Rome : Roman democracy -- Word play : Latin roots, modem meaning -- [15.] The ablative and adjectives. The world of Rome : women's liberation -- Word play : family mottoes and the ablative -- [16.] The genitive. Catullus 86 -- The world of Rome : citizenship -- Word play : pes, foot -- [17.] The pluperfect active and more passives. The world of Rome : slavery -- Word play : Indo-European -- [18.] The subjunctive. The world of Rome : slave makes good -- Word play : ancient concepts, modem language -- [19.] The Bayeux Tapestry and Carmina Burana. Word play : doublets -- [20.] Catullus 87 and St John 19-20. Word play : Zeus -- [21.] Grammatical summary. Verbs -- Nouns -- Adjectives -- [22.] Recorded vocabulary. Latin-English -- English-Latin -- [23.] Grammatical index.
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| Abstract
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This volume briefly introduces readers to Latin, the ancient Italic language originally spoken by the Italic Latins in Latium and Ancient Rome. The author provides a lively, basic review of Latin grammar as he explains tenses, cases, gender, person and verbs with a layman's level of accessibility. He intersperses these lessons with witty passages on Roman history and follows up with grammar-based exercises.
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Latin language, Readers.
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Latin language-- Grammar, Problems, exercises, etc.
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Latin language-- Grammar.
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Latin language.
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| Dewey Classification
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478.2/421
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PA2087.5.J66 1998
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