PREFACE to Second Edition

PREFACE to First Edition

ABBREVIATIONS

LESSON 1 - REVIEW: FIRST DECLENSION NOUNS. AP. TYRE. AP. TYRE: ARCHISTRATES' DAUGHTER ASKS ABOUT APPOLLONIUS.

LESSON 2 - REVIEW: PRESENT ACTIVE INDICATIVE. AP. TYRE: ARCHISTRATES' DAUGHTER QUESTIONS APOLLONIUS DIRECTLY.

LESSON 3 - REVIEW: SECOND DECLENSION NOUNS. AP. TYRE: ARCHISTRATES' DAUGHTER PERFORMS FOR APOLLONIUS.

LESSON 4 - REVIEW: FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSION ADJECTIVES. IMPERFECT ACTIVE INDICATIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS PERFORMS FOR ARCHISTRATES' DAUGHTER.

LESSON 5 - REVIEW: PRONOUNS. NEW: VOCATIVE CASE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS RECEIVES GENEROUS GIFTS AND GUEST-QUARTERS.

LESSON 6 - REVIEW: PERFECT AND PLUPERFECT ACTIVE INDICATIVE. NEW: IMPERATIVE MOOD. AP. TYRE: ARCHISTRATES' DAUGHTER FALLS IN LOVE WITH APOLLONIUS.

LESSON 7 - REVIEW: THIRD DECLENSION NOUNS. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER IS SOLD AT A PUBLIC AUCTION.

LESSON 8 - REVIEW: THIRD DECLENSION ADJECTIVES. PRESENT AND IMPERFECT PASSIVE INDICATIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER IS TAKEN TO THE BROTHEL-KEEPER.

LESSON 9 - REVIEW: FOURTH DECLENSION NOUNS. PERFECT AND PLUPERFECT PASSIVE INDICATIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER IS VISITED BY PRINCE ATHENAGORA.

LESSON 10 - REVIEW: FIFTH DECLENSION NOUNS. PRESENT ACTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER IS VISITED BY ATHENAGORA'S COLLEAGUE.

LESSON 11 - REVIEW: IMPERFECT, PERFECT, AND PLUPERFECT ACTIVE SUBJUNCTIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER REPORTS TO THE BROTHEL-KEEPER.

LESSON 12 - REVIEW: PASSIVE SUBJUNCTIVE. AP. TYRE: APOLLONIUS'S DAUGHTER ENTREATS THE BROTHEL-KEEPER'S OVERSEER. CLASSICAL TRADITION: SHAKESPEAR'S PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE.

LESSON 13 - FIRST AND SECOND CONJUGATIONS: FUTURE ACTIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY. PLINY: PLINY THE ELDER OBSERVES A LARGE VOLCANIC CLOUD.

LESSON 14 - THIRD AND FOURTH CONJUGATIONS: FUTURE ACTIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE ELDER LEAVES MISENUM ON A RESCUE MISSION.

LESSON 15 - FUTURE PERFECT ACTIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE ELDER ALTERS HIS COURSE AND REACHES A FRIEND.

LESSON 16 - SEQUENCE OF TENSES: PRIMARY SEQUENCE. PLINY: PLINY THE ELDER TRIES TO SLEEP AMID A WORSENING SITUATION.

LESSON 17 - SEQUENCE OF TENSES: SECONDARY SEQUENCE. PLINY: PLINY THE ELDER GOES TO THE SHORE AND COLLAPSES ON THE BEACH.

LESSON 18 - SUBORDINATE CLAUSES IN INDIRECT STATEMENT. SUETONIUS: A SUMMARY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PLINY THE ELDER.

LESSON 19 - FIRST AND SECOND CONJUGATIONS: FUTURE PASSIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE YOUNGER CONTINUES TO STUDY DESPITE THE DANGER.

LESSON 20 - THIRD AND FOURTH CONJUGATIONS: FUTURE PASSIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE YOUNGER LEAVES MISENUM AS PEOPLE EVACUATE.

LESSON 21 - FUTURE PERFECT PASSIVE INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE YOUNGER IGNORES A WARNING BUT PROTECTS HIS MOTHER.

LESSON 22 - CONDITIONAL SENTENCES: INDICATIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE YOUNGER DESCRIBES THE HORRORS OF A MASS PANIC.

LESSON 23 - CONDITIONAL SENTENCES: SUBJUNCTIVE. PLINY: PLINY THE YOUNGER RETURNS TO MISENUM AFTER THE ERUPTION.

LESSON 24 - CONDITIONAL SENTENCES IN INDIRECT STATEMENT. SUETONIUS: HOW THE EMPEROR TITUS HELPED THE PEOPLE AFTER THE ERUPTION. CLASSICAL TRADITION: EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON'S THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII.

LESSON 25 - SUM AND POSSUM: INDICATIVE. LIVY. LIVY: CORIOLANUS LIBERATES VOLSCIAN TOWNS FROM ROMAN CONTROL.

LESSON 26 - SUM AND POSSUM: SUBJUNCTIVE. LIVY: CORIOLANUS ENCAMPS NEAR ROME AND INSTIGATES CIVIL DISCORD.

LESSON 27 - SUM AND POSSUM: IMPERATIVES, INFINITIVES, PARTICIPLES. LIVY: THE ROMANS SEND ENVOYS TO CORIOLANUS TO NEGOTIATE PEACE.

LESSON 28 - VOLO, NOLO, AND MALO: INDICATIVE. LIVY: CORIOLANUS'S MOTHER, WIFE, AND CHILDREN VISIT HIS CAMP.

LESSON 29 - VOLO, NOLO, AND MALO: SUBJUNCTIVE. LIVY: CORIOLANUS'S MOTHER BERATES HIM FOR BETRAYING HIS COUNTRY.

LESSON 30 - VOLO, NOLO, AND MALO: IMPERATIVES, INFINITIVES, PARTICIPLES. LIVY: CORIOLANUS SPARES ROME AND IS PUNISHED BY THE VOLSCIANS.

LESSON 31 - FERO: INDICATIVE. LIVY: LUCRETIA IS PRAISED FOR BEING THE MODEL ROMAN WIFE.

LESSON 32 - FERO: SUBJUNCTIVE. LIVY: LUCRETIA IS RAPED IN HER HOME BY SEXTUS TARQUINIUS.

LESSON 33 - FERO: IMPERATIVES, INFINITIVES, PARTICIPLES. LIVY: LUCRETIA REVEALS HER ORDEAL AND THEN COMMITS SUICIDE.

LESSON 34 - EO: INDICATIVE. LIVY: BRUTUS TAKES AN OATH TO AVENGE THE DEATH OF LUCRETIA.

LESSON 35 - EO: SUBJUNCTIVE. LIVY: BRUTUS MARCHES TO ROME AND INCITES THE ROMAN PEOPLE.

LESSON 36 - EO: IMPERATIVES, INFINITIVES, PARTICIPLES. LIVY: BRUTUS LIBERATES THE CITY AND EXPELS THE ROYAL FAMILY. CLASSICAL TRADITION: SHAKESPEARE'S CORIOLANUS.

LESSON 37 - CATULLUS. METER: HENDECASYLLABICS. CATULLUS: CATULLUS MOURNS THE DEATH OF LESBIA'S SPARROW.

LESSON 38 - CATULLUS: CATULLUS ASKS LESBIA FOR COUNTLESS KISSES: CATULLUS INVITES FABULLUS TO A SPECIAL DINNER.

LESSON 39 - CATULLUS: SEPTIMIUS AND ACME PLEDGE THEIR MUTUAL LOVE.

LESSON 40 - METER: CHOLIAMBICS. CATULLUS: CATULLUS BIDS LESBIA A BITTER FAREWELL.

LESSON 41 - CATULLUS: CATULLUS ATTACKS LESBIA AND HER LUSTY LOVERS.

LESSON 42 - CATULLUS: CATULLUS ATTACKS EGNATIUS FOR ALWAYS SMILING.

LESSON 43 - METER: ELEGIAC COUPLETS. CATULLUS: CATULLUS APOLOGIZES TO JUVENTIUS FOR KISSING HIM.

LESSON 44 - CATULLUS: CATULLUS ATTACKS RUFUS FOR HIS BODY ODOR: CATULLUS BIDS FAREWELL TO HIS DECEASED BROTHER.

LESSON 45 - CATULLUS: CATULLUS PRAYS FOR HIS RELEASE FROM LESBIA.

LESSON 46 - METER: DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS. CATULLUS: THE BOYS AND GIRLS PREPARE FOR A SINGING-CONTEST.

LESSON 47 - CATULLUS: THE BOYS AND GIRLS SING ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF MARRIAGE.

LESSON 48 - CATULLUS: THE BOYS AND GIRLS SING ABOUT THE FLOWER AND THE VINE. CLASSICAL TRADITION: ALFRED TENNYSON'S HENDECASYLLABICS.

LESSON 49 - OVID. OVID: APOLLO TEASES CUPID FOR PLAYING THE ARCHER.

LESSON 50 - OVID: CUPID SHOOTS HIS ARROWS INTO APOLLO AND DAPHNE.

LESSON 51 - OVID: APOLLO FALLS IN LOVE AND ADMIRES DAPHNE'S BEAUTY.

LESSON 52 - OVID: APOLLO ENTREATS DAPHNE NOT TO RUN AWAY FROM HIM.

LESSON 53 - OVID: APOLLO PURSUES DAPHNE UNTIL SHE BECOMES EXHAUSTED.

LESSON 54 - OVID: DAPHNE TURNS IN A TREE THAT APOLLO MAKES FAMOUS.

LESSON 55 - OVID: PYRAMUS AND THISBE SPEAK THROUGH A CRACK IN THE WALL.

LESSON 56 - OVID: PYRAMUS AND THISBE DECIDE TO SNEAK OUT OF THEIR HOUSES.

LESSON 57 - OVID: THISBE SEES A LIONESS AND RUNS AWAY WITHOUT HER CLOAK.

LESSON 58 - OVID: PYRAMUS FINDS THISBE'S CLOAK AND DECIDES TO COMMIT SUICIDE.

LESSON 59 - OVID: THISBE COMES OUT OF HIDING AND FINDS PYRAMUS NEAR DEATH.

LESSON 60 - OVID: THISBE MOURNS FOR PYRAMUS AND DECIDES TO COMMIT SUICIDE. CLASSICAL TRADITION: SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

LESSON 61 - VERGIL. VERGIL: AENEAS HELPS THE TROJANS DISLODGE A TOWER ONTO THE GREEKS.

LESSON 62 - VERGIL: PYRRHUS STANDS AT THE GATE AND BREAKS THROUGH THE ENTRANCE.

LESSON 63 - VERGIL: THE GREEKS INVADE THE PALACE AND SLAUGHTER THE TROJANS.

LESSON 64 - VERGIL: PRIAM PUTS ON HIS ARMOR BUT IS RESTRAINED BY HECUBA.

LESSON 65 - VERGIL: PYRRHUS MURDERS POLITES AND IS REBUKED BY PRIAM.

LESSON 66 - VERGIL: PYRRHUS MURDERS PRIAM AS AENEAS LOOKS ON IN HORROR.

LESSON 67 - VERGIL: DIDO FALLS IN LOVE WITH AENEAS AND NEGLECTS HER DUTIES.

LESSON 68 - VERGIL: DIDO AND AENEAS GO HUNTING, DRESSED IN MAGNIFICENT ATTIRE.

LESSON 69 - VERGIL: DIDO AND AENEAS SEEK SHELTER FROM A STORM IN THE SAME CAVE.

LESSON 70 - VERGIL: RUMOR, A FOUL GODDESS, SPREADS THE TALE OF DIDO AND AENEAS.

LESSON 71 - VERGIL: IARBAS INVOKES JUPITER ABOUT THE AFFAIR OF DIDO AND AENEAS.

LESSON 72 - VERGIL: JUPITER ASKS MERCURY TO ORDER AENEAS TO LEAVE CARTHAGE. CLASSICAL TRADITION: CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE'S DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE.

APPENDIX A

MODELS

APPENDIX B

IRREGULAR VERB FORMS

APPENDIX C

VOCABULARY TO MEMORIZE

CUMULATIVE VOCABULARY

INDEX