CIE IGCSE
Latin (0480) Set Texts
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Aeneid, Book XI (selections)
Virgil: the funeral of Pallas and the Camilla episode (lines 532-596, 648-698, 768-831)
Book XI of Virgil's Aeneid follows the climax of the war in Latium. It opens with mourning: Aeneas raises a trophy from the armour of the slain Mezentius and sends the body of the young Pallas home to his father Evander, while both sides bury their dead in a brief truce. A Latin embassy fails to win peace, and battle...
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Two Centuries of Roman Prose (selections)
Sallust, Pliny and Tacitus: prescribed prose for CIE IGCSE Latin 0480
The prescribed prose selection brings together three masters of Roman prose across roughly two centuries. Each extract is a self-contained set text with its own author, style and theme. Sallust, 'Caesar and Cato Compared' (Bellum Catilinae 53.6-54). The historian pauses his narrative of the Catilinarian conspiracy to...
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