First Year

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The first year of Latin uses an inductive method. Students familiarise themselves with a basic understanding of English grammar and develop an ability to dissect complex sentences into their constituent parts.

Textbooks

• H. Ørberg, Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana, 2nd ed. (Domus Latina, 2012).
• J. M. Neumann, Lingua Latina: A Companion to Familia Romana, 2nd ed. (Indiana: Hackett, 2016).

Hours per week:  2

Second Year

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The second year of Latin is divided into two components, each one hour per week. The first hour continues the inductive Lingua Latina course. Students begin to read both classical prose and poetry. The second hour focuses on mastering the basic grammatical idioms through Latin prose composition.

Textbooks

• H. Ørberg, Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars II: Roma Aeterna, 2nd ed. (Domus Latina, 2003).
• J. M. Neumann, Lingua Latina: A Companion to Roma Aeterna, 2nd ed. (Indiana: Hackett, 2017).
• M. A. North & A. E. Hillard, Latin Prose Composition (London, 1913).
• B. L. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge, Gildersleeve’s Latin Grammar, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillon & Co., 1903).

Readers

• Verbal nouns and adjectives in Greek and Latin
• Rules for Vowel Junction

Hours per week:  2

Third Year onwards

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By this point there should be a basic mastery of Latin grammar. Readings from classical literature related to the Bible and also from Reformational Neo-Latin are introduced. Latin is reduced to one hour a week to enable students to give more time to Greek and Hebrew while keeping up their Latin.

Readers

• The Lord’s Prayer (Pater noster)
• Apostolicum
• Roman Persecution of Christians: Readings from Tacitus & Pliny
• Voetius on Church Discipline
• Voetius, Politica Ecclesiastica (original)
• Leiden Synopsis

Hours per week:  1