PAU Latin II (Canary Islands) cheat sheet
PAU Latin II (Canary Islands) · Keep the key ideas within reach.
Latin morphology and sentence structure
Endings can be ambiguous; combine morphology, agreement and construction.
Relative-pronoun case depends on its role within its own clause.
Indirect-statement infinitive tense is relative to the reporting verb.
Deponent perfects such as locutus est ordinarily have active meaning.
Reading and translating Latin in context
Locate main predication, dependencies and referents before polishing.
Preserve actor, time, negation and logical relationships.
A fluent translation still needs grammatical and textual justification.
Practise complete translation separately from multiple-choice recognition.
Latin vocabulary, contextual meaning and derivatives
Record principal parts, gender, genitive and governed constructions.
Choose the contextual sense, not the first dictionary gloss.
Inherited words and learned borrowings can develop differently.
Latin maxims do not by themselves establish modern legal rules.
Latin authors, genres and literary interpretation
Use genre as a framework, then demonstrate features in the passage.
Distinguish author, narrator and dramatic or poetic speaker.
Quote a figure before explaining its contextual effect.
Distinguish Ovid and Apuleius, and Virgil’s different genres.
Roman institutions, society and reception
Period and social position qualify claims about Roman institutions.
Ancient political terms are not exact modern institutional equivalents.
Elite texts need contextual evaluation as evidence.
Reception transforms selected ancient material for later purposes.