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Latin Comprehensions for SchoolsThis volume contains 80 comprehension exercises for use in schools. They are graded by length and difficulty so that they can profitably be used in the run up to GCSE and then on through to A Level. They may function as practice for examination conditions or as a classroom reader. To each passage is appended some vocabulary though not too much beyond the more unfamiliar words; for part of the technique of comprehension is to extract further meanings

complex and challenging in its subject matter

the edition has been a continued success

The Latin text is in each case faced by a short introduction and a line-by-line commentary

like its companions on Thucydides books I and IV

he wrote a consolation speech—not for others

mathematical proof

and he knew what he was talking about

and it presents an overview of the reception of these thinkers until the end of antiquity

Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens

with supreme power held by a Council

Με φόντο αυτόν τον ανομολόγητο έρωτα

1969) in which OUP pioneered a new kind of continuous running commentary particularly suited to short poems