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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
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Classical Latin
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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
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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)
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Contents Preface
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Abbreviations
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How to Use Classical Latin Introduction
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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
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