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Learning the English meaning of the set text is extremely important as it is possible to get a lot of marks simply by knowing the translation. I would suggest writing out the English translation and then rec...

Example sentence: quod si id ante facere conatus essem, nunc facere non possem (Cicero, Philippic IV )This passage taken from a speech by Cicero is an example of a counterfactual conditional statement, which...

The indirect statement is a subordinate sentence that acts as the object of the verb in the sentence that governs the indirect statement itself. As an example, we may consider the English: 'I think that Mary...

Book twelve of the Aeneid, the final book of the epic, culminates in a final act which epitomises the relationship between furor (rage) and pietas (duty to family, gods and state) which has been central to t...

The simplest way of describing a gerund is to call it a 'verbal noun', that is, a noun formed from a verb. Another way might be to describe it as the 'noun of an action'. For example, if we have the verb ' p...