A Level Latin

Course summary

Our course is made of four components: Unseen Translation, Prose Composition or Comprehension, Prose Literature, and Verse Literature. For students sitting the exam in 2025 and 2026, Prose Literature will include excerpts from Cicero’s Pro Caelio, Tacitus’ Annals (Books 12-14) and Pliny’s Letters, while Verse Literature will include excerpts from Virgil’s Aeneid (Book 2), Juvenal’s Satires, and Ovid’s Fasti (Book 2). For Unseen Translation, unseen prose will include excerpts from Livy, while unseen verse will include excerpts from Ovid. Prose Composition or Comprehension will include translation of or comprehension and grammar questions on an unseen prose text.