Ablative Phrasebook: Mastering Latin's Most Interesting Case

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There is no way around the versatile ablative case if you want to understand Latin. It is practically everywhere. Mastering the ablative early will give you a decisive advantage and make Latin more enjoyable. We learn languages best by attending to, remembering, and appropriately imitating examples of communication. This example-book includes two bilingual treasuries of ablative phrases that can supply any introductory or more advanced courses with material for supplementary and diagnostic exercises. Part I first explains the ideas of case and declension and presents the ablative case-forms across all the declensions. The first treasury of examples (Part II) extracts more than 400 items from Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar to help you consider ablative usage without a great deal of distracting explanatory material. The focus is on studying the instances that will best develop your feeling for ablative usage. The second treasury of examples (Part III) provides over 350 bilingually presented examples of ablative usage from Caesar, Livy, and Cicero. This book leaves a fuller treatment of ablatives in prepositional phrases to Latin Prepositions: A Handbook for Teachers and Students.