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Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeowns Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach.In addition to grammar, paradigms, and readings, each chapter includes a variety of extraordinarily well-crafted exercises that reinforce the grammar and morphology while encouraging the joy of linguistic and cultural discovery.
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Classical Latin An Introductory Course JC McKeown 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page i Classical Latin An Introductory Course 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page ii 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page iii Classical Latin An Introductory Course JC McKeown Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Indianapolis/Cambridge Copyright © 2010 by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 14 13 12 11 10 1234567 For further information, please address Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. P.O. Box 44937 Indianapolis, Indiana 46244-0937 www.hackettpublishing.com Cover and interior designs by Elizabeth L.Wilson Composition by Agnew’s, Inc. Printed at Sheridan Books, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McKeown, JC Classical Latin : an introductory course / by JC McKeown. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-87220-851-3 (pbk.)—ISBN 978-0-87220-852-0 (cloth) 1. Latin language—Grammar—Problems, exercises, etc. I.Title. PA2087.5.M38 2010 478.82’421—dc22 2009040619 e-ISBN: 978-1-60384-299-0 (Adobe ebook) 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page v For Jo, Maeve, and Tanz tribus Grātiīs meīs 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page vi 00McKeown front:Classical Latin 1/16/10 12:13 PM Page vii Contents Preface ix Abbreviations xi How to Use Classical Latin Introduction xiii xv Chapter 1 The Present Active Indicative, Imperative, and Infinitive of Verbs 1 Chapter 2 First Declension Nouns, Prepositions 15 Chapter 3 The Future and Imperfect Active Indicative of Verbs 29 Chapter 4 Direct Questions, Irregular Verbs, Compound Verbs 39 Chapter 5 Second Declension Nouns 51 Chapter 6 First and Second Declension Adjectives and Adverbs 60 Chapter 7 The Perfect Active Indicative System of Verbs 71 Chapter 8 Third Declension Nouns 84 Chapter 9 Third Declension Adjectives and Adverbs 93 Chapter 10 Volō, Nōlō, Mālō, Numbers, Nouns of Limited Form and Variable Meaning 102 Chapter 11 Fourth and Fifth Declension Nouns 115 Chapter 12 Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs 125 Chapter 13 Correlative Adjectives and Adverbs, Irregular Adjectives 138 Chapter 14 The Passive Voice of Verbs 149 Chapter 15 Deponent and Semi-Deponent Verbs, Expressions of Time and Place 164 Chapter 16 Particular Uses of Cases 176 Chapter 17 Pronouns I, Intransitive Verbs with the Dative 191 Chapter 18 Pronouns II, Intransitive Verbs with the Genitive or Ablative 206 Ch