Table Of ContentIntensIve IntermedIate LatIn
Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an
accessible grammar and related exercises in a single volume. It outlines every
major grammatical point usually taught in an intermediate college Latin
course, as well as other grammatical topics which may be introduced in the
first semester of reading prose or poetry.
Features include:
● Careful management and repetition of vocabulary used to encourage sole
focus on the grammar
● A variety of exercises to enable students to recognize and isolate the
grammatical structures in English, helping them to translate into Latin
with greater ease
● Frequent Latin-to-English and full English-to-Latin translations
● Exercises requiring students to modify aspects of Latin sentences in order
to enable improved grammar acquisition.
Written by an experienced instructor, Intensive Intermediate Latin: A
Grammar and Workbook is an ideal resource for students who want to build
on their foundations of Latin. The title can be used as a textbook, grammar
reference and practice resource for students and independent learners with
some knowledge of the language.
Intensive Intermediate Latin, with its sister volume Intensive Basic Latin,
forms a compendium of essentials of Latin grammar.
Jean-François R. Mondon trained as an Indo-Europeanist/Historical Linguist
at the University of Pennsylvania and received his PhD in 2009. He is
currently an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages (German and Latin)
at Minot State University in North Dakota. His major research interests are
tracing the phonological developments of Indo-European languages such as
Classical Armenian as well as language pedagogy and vocabulary acquisition.
Other titles available in the Grammar Workbooks series are:
Basic Arabic
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Intermediate Cantonese
Basic Chinese
Intermediate Chinese
Basic German
Intermediate German
Basic Irish
Intermediate Irish
Basic Italian
Basic Japanese
Intermediate Japanese
Basic Korean
Intermediate Korean
Basic Latin
Basic Persian
Basic Polish
Intermediate Polish
Basic Portuguese
Basic Russian
Intermediate Russian
Basic Spanish
Intermediate Spanish
Basic Welsh
Intermediate Welsh
Basic Yiddish
IntensIve IntermedIate
LatIn: a Grammar and
Workbook
Jean-François r. mondon
First published 2016
by Routledge
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© 2016 Jean-François R. Mondon
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by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mondon, Jean-François R., author.
Intensive Intermediate Latin : A Grammar and Workbook / Jean-François R. Mondon.
pages cm
1. Latin language–Grammar. I. Title.
PA2087.5.M584 2015
478.2′421–dc23
2015005341
ISBN: 978-0-415-72365-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-72366-4 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68352-2 (ebk)
Typeset in Times New Roman
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Contents
Introduction ix
Latin sources xii
1 Deponent verbs 1
2 Fīō 10
3 Infinitives 17
4 Indirect statement 27
5 Present and imperfect subjunctives 34
6 Subjunctive of irregular verbs 44
7 Purpose clauses 50
8 Indirect commands 58
9 Perfect and pluperfect subjunctives 64
10 Sequence of tenses 70
11 Indirect questions 76
12 Potential and optative subjunctives 84
13 Result clauses I 90
14 Result clauses II 97
15 Quod substantive clauses 105
16 Impersonal verbs 110
17 Indirect reflexives 118
18 Hortatory and jussive subjunctives 124
19 Causal clauses 129
20 Concessive clauses 134
21 Temporal clauses I – when(ever) 140
22 Temporal clauses II – before and after 146
23 Dum clauses 151
24 Conditional sentences 157 vii
Contents 25 Doubting clauses 164
26 Fearing clauses 170
27 Clauses of prevention 176
28 Gerunds 182
29 Gerundives 189
30 Periphrastics 194
31 Fore 201
32 Supine 207
33 Subjunctive by attraction 212
34 Syncopated verbal forms 218
35 Numerals 224
36 Greek nouns 232
37 Meter I: weight and feet 238
38 Meter II: elision and synizesis 245
39 Archaic Latin 251
40 Late Latin 257
Key to exercises 264
Dictionaries
Latin–English 319
English–Latin 352
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IntrodUCtIon
This book is intended as a synopsis of every major grammatical point usually
taught in the final semester or two of a Latin program before students begin
taking courses on individual authors or works. This book could easily be extended
throughout two 15-week semesters or within a single 20-week semester/term
which meets for 5+ hours a week, covering two units per week.
The two overarching grammatical points which run throughout a large part
of this book are the subjunctive mood and subordinate clauses. A mastery of
both is essential in not only understanding the fine points of reading Latin authors
but also in improving fluency in reading in general. This book shares many
similarities with the first volume, Intensive Basic Latin, including each unit’s
focus on one grammatical topic. Units whose topics share similarities were
grouped together, forming unofficial “superunits” which a teacher could certainly
use as the foundations of a course. Not all units fit easily into “superunits,”
though the majority do and it seems useful to highlight the more natural classes
here:
Units 1–2 verbs which break the normal mode of active/passive formation
Units 3–4 infinitives and their primary use
Units 5–8 present and imperfect subjunctives and two uses which require
knowledge of only these two subjunctives
Units 9–14 perfect and pluperfect subjunctive and uses which require
knowledge of all four subjunctives
Units 19–23 cum clauses and temporal clauses
Units 25–27 clauses whose introductory conjunctions are determined by the
verb of the dominating clause
Units 28–30 gerunds, gerundives and their uses
Units 37–38 meter
Units 39–40 stages of Latin.
Most of units 1 through 36 contain ten excerpts from various Latin authors
for translation. These very brief excerpts are intended to give students practice
in reading a variety of authors. Many of the passages are left unedited, while
others have been simplified by deleting subordinate clauses or other words from ix
