An elementary Latin reader The fables of Orbilius (Godley, 1901):
Captivating short stories from “modern” British life with excellent illustrations.
Despite being said “elementary”, the author uses advances grammar, such as past and future tenses, subjunctive mood and so on. Try reading “A Puzzle” story to estimate your level of proficiency in Latin declensions.
P.S. The Classical Review (doi:10.1017/S0009840X00208731) recommends this book to “be used soon after the Ora Maritima”.
Useful little book; thanks for posting. No problem with parsing “A Puzzle”, but didn’t know rogaverit was Subjunctive Perfect.
Hi Pianophile, rogauerit here is not pf. subj., but fut. pf. in the if-clause (or protasis) of a future more-vivid condition (with poterit in the then-clause or apodosis).
See further on future more-vivid conditions e.g. Wheelock p. 274 at the top ‘(Occasionally the future perfect is used, in either or both clauses…)’, Woodcock sec. 193 ‘Future more vivid: … If he shall have done this, (I threaten that) he will be punished Si hoc fecerit (fut. pf.), poenas dabit’, etc.
Cheers, Chad
Many thanks chad - I should have realised from the context that the perfect didn’t make sense. If only I had spotted the indicative future perfect first, rather than the identical spelling of the subjunctive perfect! Trouble is almost anything seems to be possible in Latin - a bit like Alice in Wonderland. 