Top answers

What is the best way to learn declensions?

There are a few ways to learn declensions.Draw out the table and try to fill it in from memory.Note down sentences you come across which involve the declensions you struggle with and test yourself on them la...
JT
Answered by Jake T. • Latin tutor
2248 Views

Translate: Nisus erat miles fortis. Amicum habebat, Euryalum nomine, quem maxime amabat. Postquam Graeci urbem Troiam ceperunt, Nisus Euryalusque ad Italiam cum paucis aliis Troianis fugerunt. Ibi invenerunt multos hostes, qui Troianos delere volebant.

Nisus was a brave soldier. He had a friend, called Euryalus, whom he loved very much. After the Trojans had taken the city of Troy, Nisus and Euryalus fled to Italy along with a few others. There they found ...
EW
Answered by Edward W. • Latin tutor
6451 Views

Translate: Abydeni (citizens of Abydos) legatos ad regem de condicionibus tradendae urbis miserunt.

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...
JT
Answered by Jake T. • Latin tutor
3542 Views

How does the sequence of tenses work?

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...
CD
Answered by Catherine D. • Latin tutor
2478 Views

How does Pliny create a sense of drama in the extract?

Pliny states that his uncle launched warships (deducit quadriremes) to sail into the bay which suggests that he is going to war against Vesuvius, making this account dramatic. He uses a chiasmus ‘festinat il...
RW
Answered by Raffaella W. • Latin tutor
2435 Views