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Deponent verbs are verbs which look passive, but have an active meaning. We are used to seeing active verbs, like 'capio', meaning 'I take or capture', where the subject of the v...

Before we attempt to translate an example of an ablative absolute, it is important that we are able to confidently identify an ablative absolute phrase within a sentence. An ablative absolute consists of ...

When you're given a sentence, the first thing to do is think of any Latin vocab that matches the English: eg. 'forum' is also 'forum' in Latin, and you probably know that a girl is 'puella', if you've use...

'Marcus was fighting Flavius because he was angry." pugnabat: 3rd person, singular, imperfect, indicative, active erat: 3rd person, singular, imperfect, indicative, active (same as above)

"[Aeneas] burned to go in flight and to abandon the sweet lands, / dazed by the great vision and by the power of the gods." - Aeneas is eager to be gone ('ardet') - Aeneas is stunned by the visi...