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Top tips for tackling a translation: Before you begin, read through twice to try and get the gist of the text- ie, the characters, the plot etc Always carefully read the extract in English at the top- as thi...

If in English you can insert the word ‘that’ after the verb of fearing, then Latin uses the ne + subjunctive construction. As in, if your fearing verb introduces a clause with its own verb , you’ll use ne + ...

Prose Composition For Latin A-level, one of the possible choices for the first half of the prose paper is to translate a passage from English into Latin (and also a few sentences at AS). This may, at first, ...

The sequence of tenses explains why subjunctives in subordinate clauses are in the tenses that they are in, and it provides insight into how to translate the clause. Latin has two sequences of tense- primary...

Latin poems are written in a number of forms. Epic, such as Ovid's metamorphoses or Virgil's Aeneid, are written in hexameter. When scanning, there are a couple of important terms you need to know: A syllabl...