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A Level Latin
H443/02 Prose Composition or Comprehension
Time allowed: 1 hour 15 minutes
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INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must
be clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer either the questions in Section A or the question in Section B.

INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• This document has 4 pages.

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Answer either Section A or Section B.

Section A: Comprehension and Grammar

Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions which follow.

Quintilian gives examples of lawyers who caused embarrassment for themselves

in court. He advises them to be prepared to adapt their approach in response to
unexpected circumstances and not to rely entirely on a pre-written speech.

patronus aliquando puellam, quae soror esse adversarii dicebatur – nam de hoc lis
erat – in adversa subsellia transtulit, tamquam in gremio fratris relicturus; at is ab amico
praemonitus iam discesserat. tum ille, plerumque orator facundus, hac re improvisa
obmutuit et puellam timide reduxit.

alius patronus pro femina imaginem mariti mortui iudicibus proferre constituerat, sed ea 5
magnum risum movit. nam e cera facta erat, cadaveri senis infusa, quae deformitate
ipsa totam orationis vim perdidit.

nec est ignotum quid Glyconi acciderit. puer quidam, quem in iudicio productum
interrogabat quare fleret, respondit se a patre vellicari.

omnia tamen haec tolerabilia eis quibus actionem mutare facile est: ei tamen qui a stilo 10
non recedunt aut conticescunt ad hos casus aut frequentissime falsa dicunt. inde est
enim ‘tendit supplex manus’ et ‘haeret in complexu liberorum’ etiam si nihil horum is de
quo dicitur faciat. recte Cassius adulescenti dicenti ‘cur me vultu terribili intueris?’ ‘non
mehercule’ respondit ‘id faciebam sed, quoniam sic scripsisti – ecce!’ et quam potuit
saevissime eum aspexit. 15

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria VI.1.39–43 (adapted)

Names
Glycon, -onis (m) Glycon (a famous lawyer)
Cassius, -i (m) Cassius (also a famous lawyer)

Words
patronus, -i (m) lawyer
adversarius, -i (m) opponent
lis, litis (f) lawsuit, case
subsellium, -i (n) bench, row of seats in court
gremium, -i (n) lap
facundus, -a, -um eloquent
cera, -ae (f) wax
cadaver, -eris (n) corpse
infundo, -ere, -fudi, -fusus (here) I mould
vellico, -are I pinch
actio, -onis (f) approach
conticesco, -ere I become silent
supplex, -icis (m/f) a suppliant, person who begs for mercy
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1 patronus ... discesserat (lines 1–3):

(a) in this court case, what do we learn about the girl’s identity? [2]

(b) how did the lawyer put himself in an embarrassing situation? [4]

2 tum ille ... reduxit (lines 3–4): how did the lawyer’s behaviour change in response to this unexpected
situation? [2]

3 Translate alius ... perdidit (lines 5–7). [10]

4 nec est ... vellicari (lines 8–9): why do you think the boy’s reply would have made Glycon feel silly?
[3]

5 In lines 10–11 (omnia ... dicunt), what points about lawyers does Quintilian make here? [5]

6 How do the examples given in lines 11–15 (inde ... aspexit) support the points that Quintilian is
making in the passage? [9]

7 Which part of the verb are the following:

(a) relicturus (line 2)? [1]

(b) productum (line 8)? [1]

(c) fleret (line 9)? [1]

8 Give the present active infinitive of the following:

(a) movit (line 6) [1]

(b) aspexit (line 15) [1]

9 Explain, using a translation if you think it is helpful, why the following verbs need to be subjunctive:

(a) acciderit (line 8) [1]

(b) faciat (line 13) [1]

10 State and explain the case of the following, using a translation if you think it is helpful:

(a) quem (line 8) [2]

(b) casus (line 11) [2]

(c) vultu (line 13) [2]

11 Explain, using a translation if you think it is helpful, the grammar of the phrase quam potuit
saevissime (lines 14–15). [2]
[Total: 50 marks]
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Section B: Prose Composition

Do not answer this section if you have already answered Section A.

12 Translate this passage into Latin prose.

You are reminded that marks will be awarded for the style of your translation.

Please write your translation on alternate lines. [50]

While a boy called Servius was asleep in the palace of king Tarquin, flames suddenly appeared
out of his head. A slave immediately brought water to put out the fire but he was stopped by the
queen, who commanded that the boy should not be touched until he woke of his own accord. Not
long after, the fire went out and the boy opened his eyes safely.

Then the queen said secretly to her husband, ‘By that ring of flames the gods are showing us that
this boy will one day wear your crown. Let us treat him with the greatest honour.’

From that time Servius was brought up alongside the king’s own children, and when he was
looking for a young man to marry his daughter he could find none more distinguished than Servius
in the whole of Rome.

Names
Servius Servius, -i (m)
Tarquin Tarquinius, -i (m)

Words
I wake expergiscor, -i
ring circulus, -i (m)
I bring up educo, -are
I marry in matrimonium duco, -ere

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