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An ablative absolute is a noun + participle phrase which doesn't have any grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence, in which the noun and participle are in the ablative and agree in gender and numb...

An "ablative absolute" is made up of a noun and a participle in the ablative. It's called an absolute because it's grammatically independent from the rest of the sentence. It's usually found with P...

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, ...