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