That rules out posts in all languages besides English, Mandarin, Hindi, and Spanish. Bad luck for that poster, who followed up on that post with an insult in French, a language with only 312 million speakers

I had to go back on the old site to find this

I took a peek at the book, it doesn’t cover anything before Cicero.

Also, I’m interested to know the answer because I’ve been working on a Latin novella that takes place in this era where a letter is key to the plot. It even has Cornelia as a side character (along with a teenage Tiberius and a 10-year-old Gaius!)

This is a good question. There might be an answer in this anthology of Roman letters, which has a very detailed introduction. I have a copy in my classroom, so if you don’t get an answer by Monday, remind me

www.wiley.com/en-us/Roman+...

In fairness, it's things like the tenses of the subjunctive, and the CED does mention tense and subjunctive verbs. But separately, not together—why does it say, "There are six tenses of verbs in the indicative mood: present, imperfect...", but no such language for the subjunctive?

Strong/strength, broad/breadth, deep/depth, true/truth…

OK Book 7 already has some bangers. "Aren't we eating our tables?", Allecto and the snake, the stag hunt. It reminds me of Ovid. Book 7 is definitely underrated

French did this with “avec,” which comes from Latin “apud hoc”

A fictional band performing as a fictional band! And they got to keep their wardrobe!

Every one of my classes asked if I had done it yet lol

They say that first-foot spondees are "fairly rare" (p. 107 of the CED), but they're 40% of the verses in the Aeneid

I’m not sure. I’m compiling a list of grievances—oops, I mean questions, semper hic erro—to ask on the AP Latin forum on CB’s website, and this is one of them

I've used this, it cites Broughton frequently and is very handy!

romanrepublic.ac.uk

Of course, then they have to come back the next day for Paper 2, which is when we do the set passages. But Paper 1 is more than sufficient to show their Latin chops. They have access to a paper dictionary, but if I had my druthers I would do a word list like AP (but not 1,000 words, geez)

I feel you'd like IB HL Paper 1:

Two unseen passages—students pick verse+prose or prose+verse

1st: ~130 words. 5 FRQs for comprehension, translate the end

2nd: ~65 words on a related topic, with a summary in English. 1 question comparing the two passages, 1 question analyzing the 2nd passage only