Phillips Exeter Academy

Intermediate Latin

LAT210/220/230

Intermediate Latin

This sequence continues to introduce students to additional forms and syntax, including the subjunctive mood. After completion of this material, students will have their first taste of authentic, unadapted Latin prose. Not just a general, conqueror and dictator, Julius Caesar was also a man of letters and is often heralded as the exemplar of Latinitas, or Latin “correctness.” Said to have been composed inter tela volantia (“amidst a volley of weapons”), Caesar’s De Bello Gallico presents an exciting and dramatic account of the military campaigns against Gallic tribes that brought all of Gaul under Roman control.