![]() Lines like ’Caesar in Hispaniam transgessus legatos Pompeii vicit’ and ’Hannibal cum Scipione ad Zamam congressus atroci pugna victus est’ may come later. Preposition-deprivation syndrome faded.Ĭan you really snub Ecci, Cambridge, Oxford and the rest? ’Raeda in fossa haeret’ and ’caupo me necare parat’ make Latin concrete and comprehensible to early learners. Words, phrases, structures resurfaced again and again and became familiar. Wow! Instant conversion! Latin was actually readable! After that, whole pages were devoured in a matter of minutes. of a slim volume called ’ECCE ROMANI 2: Rome at Last’ from 1971 (first edition) - without macrons – finally knocked me off my horse in fine St Paul style. My personal learning strategy has been to work from both ends simultaneously – a) beginner/ intermediate books and b) the Real McCoy – constantly narrowing the gap between the two. Since then I have learnt enough Latin to enjoy Horace and to lust after more of the same (ie Latin). I personally witnessed the murder of Latin by a dictate-and-stare-out-of-the-window teacher holding a dull-as-ditchwater Latin book in his fist in an English grammar school many years ago – while I dreamt of a girl in the adjoining girls’ school. I can't say enough against books like Ecce or Cambridge. ![]()
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