Latin - Cambridge School Classics Project

IntroductionImportant notice: only suitable for WJEC Level 2 Unit9541 Theme B 2010-2012This booklet is designed to help only students who arepreparing for Theme B (Love and Marriage) of Unit 9541‘Latin Literature Themes’ of the WJEC Level 2 Certificatein Latin Literature examination, Summer 2010, 2011 or2012.Students preparing for the Level 1 Certificate in LatinLiterature should use the corresponding booklet for thatexamination, which is also available free of charge on theCSCP website.If you are preparing for Theme A (otium) or for examinationin any other year, do not use these materials - they willnot be relevant to your studies.About this bookletThis booklet has been written to help you work out atranslation of the extracts set for the 2010, 2011 and 2012examinations. It is intended primarily for schools to give tostudents as a revision aid; students who may be learningLatin on their own; students on short courses who have todo much of the work on their own; students being taughtprivately and requiring additional material and studentswishing to supplement the support materials provided bytheir school.The booklet contains three versions of the prescribedliterature. The first version has a numbered word orderabove the Latin text, the second has English meaningsabove the Latin and the third version has both a wordorder and English meanings. The three versions of theLatin are followed by the translation which results fromcombining the word order with the meanings given.passage (also available from the CSCP website). Studyabout ten to twelve lines at a time in this way. Once youunderstand how the Latin can be translated, return to theLatin text and look at the original order of the Latin wordscarefully to study how the meaning is enhanced by theoriginal word order.From time to time within the word order it has beennecessary to show where one count ends and anotherbegins. To do this we have used the | symbol. The use ofitalics within a translation indicates English words addedto create a more natural translation.Additional support onlineAll the literature in this booklet is also available online in‘exploring’ format. This allows you to click any word andsee the meaning of that word instantly. A grammaticalanalysis of the word in its context is also provided. Youwill also find ‘Listen to’ activities, where you can hearthe literature read aloud, interactive activities and manycarefully selected web-links for each selection in theprescribed literature. All the resources are available freeof charge at www.CambridgeSCP.com (select ‘PublicExaminations’ from the choices on the Main Entrance).Students preparing for other WJEC Latin qualificationsmay also wish to take advantage of other materialsonline, such as vocabulary testers. The materialsare housed in the ‘Public Examinations’ area of thewww.CambridgeSCP.com website.How to use this bookletThere are many ways to translate the literature set for theexamination. The word order, meanings and translationsprovided in this booklet are just some examples. You mayalready have studied the literature in class or at home andcreated different, perhaps better, translations than thoseprovided here. If so, choose your preferred translationsfrom the options available to you. The translationsprovided here are neither definitive nor official versions.The authors and publishers of this booklet have no formalconnection with the examining team and the translationsincluded should not be regarded as any better thantranslations you may have created.Although we have included a word order above theLatin to help you translate the Latin into English, alwaysremember that Roman authors took great care to placetheir words in the order they did. The original order of thewords contributes greatly to the meaning contained in theliterature - meaning is conveyed not only in what is said, butin how the author says it. Therefore, first work out or revisethe meaning of the Latin using the word order providedhere, studying one sentence at a time and running overthe sentence three or four times. Then try to translate thesentence without any support, using a blank copy of theWJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 5