The 2007 CAV Latin Tournament Syllabus
LATIN I
- NOUNS
- Declensions 1, 2, and 3
- Case Uses
- Nominative: subject, predicate nominative
- Genitive: possession
- Dative: indirect object
- Accusative : direct object, object of prepositions, place to which
- Ablative: accompaniment. manner, means, object of prepositions, place
from which, place where, time when
- Vocative: direct address
- ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
- Declensions 1-2, 3
- positive only
- VERBS
- indicative: all conjugations; present, imperfect, future, and perfect
tenses only; active voice
- imperative: positive, singular and plural
- infinitive: present active only; complementary
- irregulars: sum, possum
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LATIN II
- NOUNS
- Declensions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
- Case Uses
- Nominative: subject, predicate nominative
- Genitive: possession, partitive
- Dative: indirect object, with special adjectives, object of special verbs,
possession
- Accusative: direct object, object of prepositions, place to which, duration
of time, extent of space, subject of infinitive in indirect statement
- Ablative: accompaniment, manner, means, object of prepositions, place from
which, place where, time when, agent, absolute, comparison, degree of
difference, description
- Vocative: direct address
- Locative: place where with cities, towns, small islands, domus,
rus
- ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS
- Declensions 1, 2, 3
- positive, comparative, and superlative
- hic, ille, iste, idem, ipse
- PRONOUNS
- personal, interrogative, relative, reflexive, and demonstratives listed
above
- VERBS
- indicative: all conjugations, all tenses, active and passive
- imperative: present active and passive, positive and negative
- infinitives: present active and passive, perfect active and passive,
future active
- irregulars: sum, possum, eo, fero, volo,
nolo
- participles: present active, perfect passive, future active
- deponents
- There will be no subjunctives, no gerunds, no gerundives
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ADVANCED LATIN PROSE
- GRAMMAR: The entire corpus of standard prose Latin grammar.
- READINGS: Selections from the prose authors from these POST-LEVEL-TWO
texts: Ecce Romani, Longman's Fabulae Romanae, Latin for
Americans, Oxford, Cambridge, and Jenney-Scudder. There MAY
be one Cicero passage on this test. This is NOTmeant to impose a syllabus on
any Latin III program, but rather to define the limits of sources that a
test-writer may use. The sight translation may come from any Latin prose
author.
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VERGIL
- GRAMMAR: The entire corpus of standard prose Latin grammar, including
poetic forms and meter as indicated by the AP syllabus.
- READINGS: Selections from the current AP syllabus of Vergil's Aeneid
through Book IV, line 804, with sight translation from non-AP parts of Books 3, 5,
7-12.
- LITERARY DEVICES: as found in the Aeneid.
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CATULLUS
- GRAMMAR: The entire corpus of standard prose Latin grammar, including
poetic forms and meter as indicated in the AP Syllabus.
- READINGS: Selections from the 2006-2007 AP syllabus of Catullus' Carmina.
- LITERARY DEVICES: as found in Catullus' Carmina.
N.B. Because it is not practical to offer separate examinations on Horace,
Ovid, or Cicero's Pro Caelio, the CAV has to assume that the Catullus
part of the AP Latin Literature syllabus will be taught first.
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