Latin

Assessment

PAPER 1 Unseen Translation 33% Translation of two passages of unseen Latin, one prose and one verse. The verse passage will be from the poetry of Ovid, the most gifted of the Roman poets and the prose passage will be from the works of the historian Livy. PAPER 2 Comprehension or prose composition 17% Either answering questions on a piece of unseen Latin prose Or translating a passage of unseen English into Latin. PAPER 3 Prose literature 25% Questions on set prose literature. In the first year of the course the text will be either Cicero’s Caelio, 51–58, 61–68 or Tacitus, Annals XII, 25–26, 41–43, 52–53, 56–59, 64–69. In the second year students will be able to choose whether to explore the same text further, read the other text instead, or study a completely new text, which will be Pliny, Letters 1.9, 3.16, 4.2, 4.19, 8.8, 8.16, 8.17, 9.6 . They will also be required to read further sections of their chosen text in English. PAPER 4 Verse Literature 25% Questions on set verse literature. In the first year of the course the text will be either Virgil’s Aeneid II (lines 40-249) or Juvenal, Satire 6:1–113, 242–305, 352–365, 398–412. In the second year students will be able to choose whether to explore the same text further, read the other text instead, or study a completely new text, which will be Ovid, Fasti II, lines lines 267–358, 685–852. They will also be required to read further sections of their chosen text in English.