Introduction |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part 1 Getting Started with Latin |
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Part 3 Latin in the Modern World |
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PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH LATIN |
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Chapter 1 You Already Know a Little Latin |
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Latin: Not as Dead as You May Have Hoped |
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Familiarity Breeds Comfort: Latin You Already Know |
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English in a toga: Latin derivatives |
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In the debit column: Latin loanwords |
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From A to Z: The Latin Alphabet |
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Soundin' Like a Roman: Pronunciation |
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15 | (8) |
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Ecclesiastical pronunciation |
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Don't stress out: Accenting syllables |
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20 | (3) |
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Chapter 2 The Nitty Gritty: Basic Latin Grammar |
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Bending the Rules: All about an Inflected Language |
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Latin Nouns (Or Why You Should Love Your English Teacher) |
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Talking about the birds and the bees: Gender |
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Lights! Camera! Action! Introducing Verbs |
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Joining the ranks of verb conjugation |
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Taking it personally --- personal endings |
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Relax! If s just the verbs that are tense |
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Making Connections through Conjunctions |
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Chapter 3 Salve! (Hello!): Greetings and Introductions |
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Hello, Goodbye: Roman Salutations and Farewells |
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48 | (2) |
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The boys 'n the 'hood: Addressing males |
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Olivia, where are you?: Addressing females |
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50 | (1) |
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Being There: Esse (To Be) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (2) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (1) |
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The Preposition Proposition |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (6) |
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Counting it down: Cardinal numbers |
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62 | (1) |
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Putting things in order: Ordinal numbers |
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63 | (1) |
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The "I's" have it: Roman numerals |
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Chapter 4 The Roman Family and Social Structure |
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Keeping It All in the Family |
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Familiarizing yourself with the familia |
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Gushy stuff: Love and marriage |
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Throwing on Meaning with Adjectives |
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Understanding 1st- and 2nd-declension adjectives |
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76 | (2) |
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Using 3rd-declension adjectives |
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Perfecting the Past and the Future |
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Attaining perfection: Perfect tense |
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Going beyond perfect: Pluperfect tense |
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82 | (2) |
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Finishing someday: Future perfect tense |
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84 | (3) |
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Chapter 5 Food and Housing in Roman Life |
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Living to Eat and Eating to Live |
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88 | (5) |
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Feeding veggies to an empire |
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89 | (1) |
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Going whole hog with meat |
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Having your fruit and eating it, too! |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (2) |
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93 | (4) |
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94 | (1) |
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Minding your manners around the mensa |
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95 | (1) |
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Weapons of attack, or fun with forks |
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96 | (1) |
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To Be or To Eat: That's the Real Question |
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97 | (4) |
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98 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (4) |
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Venturing out to your villa |
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102 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 The Roman Calendar |
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Planning Ahead with the Roman Calendar |
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106 | (5) |
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Biding the hours and days |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (2) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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111 | (5) |
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111 | (1) |
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Quo vadis? (Where are you going?) |
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112 | (1) |
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Everything but the kitchen sink |
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112 | (4) |
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Expressing Subjunctive Moodiness |
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116 | (4) |
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Understanding the present subjunctive |
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117 | (2) |
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Understanding the perfect and not-so-perfect subjunctive tenses |
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119 | (1) |
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Pleading Insanity: The Insanity Clause |
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120 | (3) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (1) |
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Clauses for indirect questions |
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Introducing clauses with cum |
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122 | (1) |
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He Seems Like a God! Roman Deities |
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123 | (6) |
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123 | (1) |
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Housecleaning with the gods |
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124 | (1) |
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Knocking on wood: Superstitions |
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125 | (4) |
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129 | (16) |
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129 | (6) |
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Exercising the right to fight |
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130 | (2) |
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The tools of the trade: Arma and tela |
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4th-and 5th-Declension Nouns |
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135 | (4) |
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Understanding 4th-declension nouns |
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135 | (3) |
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Understanding 5th-declension nouns |
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138 | (1) |
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I, I, I! --- using personal pronouns |
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This or that? Demonstrative pronouns |
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140 | (2) |
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Who's who? Relative pronouns |
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142 | (3) |
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Chapter 8 Roman Entertainment and Sports |
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146 | (6) |
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Not for the squeamish: Gladiatorial games |
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Round and round we go: Chariot racing |
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149 | (3) |
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Good, Better, Best: Never Let It Rest! |
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152 | (3) |
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Comparative-degree adjectives (-er) |
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152 | (1) |
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Superlative-degree adjectives (-est) |
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153 | (1) |
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Standing Room Only: Roman Plays |
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155 | (6) |
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156 | (1) |
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157 | (4) |
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Chapter 9 Roman Government |
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King for a day: The kingdom |
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By the people, for the people: The Republic |
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165 | (2) |
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Rendering unto Caesar: The Empire |
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Getting Out of the Verbal Trap |
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Presenting present participles |
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169 | (2) |
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Looking back with perfect participles |
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171 | (1) |
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Voicing concerns about participles |
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172 | (3) |
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175 | (3) |
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Passive (Aggressive) Voice |
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Present, imperfect, and future passive |
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178 | (1) |
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Perfect, pluperfect, future perfect passive |
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179 | (6) |
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Chapter 10 More Lasting Than Bronze: Latin Literature |
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185 | (16) |
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186 | (3) |
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Before the days of copyrights |
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186 | (1) |
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Who's who of Latin authors |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Getting Grammar into Proper Condition |
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189 | (2) |
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190 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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Present, contrary to fact |
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191 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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Telling It Secondhand --- Indirect Statements |
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191 | (4) |
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Understanding Latin infinitives |
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192 | (1) |
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Handling indirect statements |
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193 | (2) |
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Writing for the Rest of Us |
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195 | (6) |
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196 | (1) |
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Etched in stone: Inscriptions |
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197 | (1) |
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The writing on the wall: Graffiti |
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197 | (4) |
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PART 3 LATIN IN THE MODERN WORLD |
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Chapter 11 Keeping It Simple, Silly |
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203 | (20) |
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Finding the Subject in the Case |
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204 | (2) |
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206 | (1) |
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Where Were You on the Night of the 15th? |
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207 | (1) |
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Listening to Latin Litigation: Words Used in Roman Courts |
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208 | (5) |
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Legal beagles: The cast and crew |
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209 | (1) |
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Can you describe what you saw? |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (2) |
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Summation and Closing Arguments |
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213 | (1) |
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Latin Words Used in English-Language Courts |
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214 | (9) |
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215 | (3) |
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Less common Latin phrases |
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218 | (5) |
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Chapter 12 The Decline and Fall of Roman Declensions |
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223 | (20) |
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A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose --- But Not in Latin |
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224 | (1) |
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Sending It Off to the Lab (or the Dictionary) |
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225 | (3) |
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Getting a Second Opinion through Context |
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228 | (1) |
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Completing Your Residency |
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229 | (2) |
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229 | (1) |
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230 | (1) |
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Getting In Shape with Verbs |
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231 | (2) |
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This Doesn't Seem Right, Doc |
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233 | (3) |
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Understanding Common Medical Terms |
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236 | (2) |
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Using Latin at the Drugstore |
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238 | (5) |
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Chapter 13 We All Live In a Yellow Subordinate Clause |
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243 | (22) |
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244 | (1) |
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Seeing the Results of All This |
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I'll Help You on One Condition |
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247 | (1) |
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The Early Church and Its Adopted Language |
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Help me, oh Lord! (and others, too) |
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249 | (1) |
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Keeping on God's good side |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (5) |
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Reciting the Lord's Prayer in Latin |
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A final list of (and a few stories behind) Latin expressions |
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Chapter 14 Latin in Zoology and Botany |
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265 | (10) |
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You don't have to be a genius to understand genus |
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Getting specific with species |
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268 | (3) |
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Common plant genus and species names |
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271 | (2) |
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A rose is a rose is a rose --- or is it? |
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Chapter 15 Translating and Reading Latin |
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275 | (24) |
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Word Order, or Where in the Heck Is the Subject? |
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276 | (1) |
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Making Sense of a Translation |
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277 | (1) |
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Translating simple sentences |
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278 | (1) |
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Translating longer sentences |
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279 | (3) |
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Real live Latin: Messin'with Martialis |
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282 | (2) |
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Translating complex sentences |
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284 | (1) |
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More live Latin: Catullus's catch |
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285 | (2) |
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Translating subjunctive mood |
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287 | (3) |
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Once More unto the Breach |
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290 | (9) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (2) |
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Caesar, you're a real pain in the back! |
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294 | (1) |
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Will the real Hannibal please stand up? |
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295 | (4) |
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Chapter 16 Mottoes, Sayings, and Quotes: Cocktail Party Latin |
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299 | (14) |
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300 | (7) |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (1) |
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From the mouth of Julius Caesar |
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I'll have another: Romans on drink |
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304 | (1) |
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Latin quotes from other famous people |
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304 | (3) |
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Advice in Latin: Words to Live By |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (4) |
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Mottoes of famous organizations and institutions |
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310 | (1) |
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Mottoes of cities and countries |
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310 | (3) |
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313 | (14) |
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Chapter 17 More than Ten Loanwords from Latin |
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315 | (6) |
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316 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (1) |
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318 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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319 | (1) |
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Chapter 18 Ten (or So) False Friends: Common Mistakes in Latin |
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321 | (6) |
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Audere and Audire: Audaciously Audible! |
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322 | (1) |
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Crimen: Guilty or Not Guilty? |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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Saepe and Semper: Do You Come Here Often or Always? |
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323 | (1) |
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Servare and Servire: Are You Being Served or Saved? |
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323 | (1) |
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Tandem and Tamen: I'd Like to Go Cycling, But |
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323 | (1) |
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Fugere and Fugare: Follow Me, I'm Right Behind You! |
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324 | (1) |
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Dicere and Ducere: Do As I Say |
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324 | (1) |
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Vir and Vires: Strength Isn't Just For Men |
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324 | (1) |
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Morior and Moror: Being Late to Your Own Funeral |
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325 | (1) |
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Aestas and Aetas: When I Was Your Age in the Summer |
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325 | (1) |
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Cado and Caedo: Be Careful, It's the Fall that Will Kill You! |
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325 | (1) |
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Os and Os: The Mouth Bone? |
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326 | (1) |
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Quidam and Quidem: A Certain Man, Indeed |
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326 | (1) |
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Consilium and Concilium: Do You Have Counsel for the Council? |
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326 | (1) |
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Appendix A Noun, Adjective, and Verb Tables |
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Appendix B Latin-English Mini-Dictionary |
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353 | (28) |
Appendix C Answer Key |
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Index |
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