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If you are translating into English from Latin, conditional sentences are identified by either si or nisi of it is a negative statement, translated as if or unless respectively. Once that has been spotted, y...

This question is for the verse literature paper in A-Level (or GCSE) Latin. Students will have translated and analysed a text about which they will be asked literary questions of varying length. This questio...

Aeneas is presented like a hunter here: the stag is a prey animal so Aeneas becomes the predator. Aeneas kills seven stags, having just landed in Carthage - he is the foreigner, the 'guest-friend' (hospes), ...

We are given that 'Abydeni' means 'citizens of Abydos'. This is the subject of the sentence; we now move to the verb, 'miserunt'. This is from the past tense of 'mittere', meaning 'to send'. So we know the c...

The sequence of tenses is used in purpose clauses, indirect commands, fear clauses and result clauses. It decides which form of the subjunctive should be used in the subordinate clause. There are two types o...