To bathe... or not to bathe, that is the question for King Cogidubnus. Book III's opening story contains all the watery ingredients to whet (!) your appetite: a sickly, bath-building king, a sacred spring and a town called Aquae Sulis!
Quintus has spent the winter of AD 82 with his distant relation, Salvius. The news this spring, though, is that King Cogidubnus' health is failing and he's going to seek a cure at the sacred spa-town of Bath. Salvius, however, has other plans...
The Stories
Lucius Marcius Memor Page 6
Welcome to the great baths of Aquae Sulis, some of the most sumptuous west of Rome! People have come from far and wide to drink and bathe in the warm waters in hope of a cure for their ailments. However, the manager of the baths, Lucius Marcius Memor, is not at all in a welcoming mood...
senator advenit Page 8
Memor has only one plan today for managing the baths - and that's to close them and for him to spend the day in bed! His laziness is thwarted, however, when a VIP rides into town.
Memor rem suscipit I Page 10
Memor receives a chilling request... What's he to do?
Memor rem suscipit II Page 11
A plan is hatched, the plot thickens and the buck is passed. "Life is full of difficult things"!
Practising the Language
Activities for vocabulary revision and language practice:
Test your Vocabulary is against the clock and can be set to all words in this stage, up to this stage, etc.
Word Endings exercises are based on the Practising the Language section in the Books, and follow this format. Click here for more information.
Word Endings activities are based on the Practising the Language section of each Stage, and all follow the same format. The user is given a sentence in English together with the same sentence in Latin, but with one or more endings to be chosen from a drop down list. In most exercises the endings omitted are restricted to one particular part of speech (noun, verb or adjective). For this type of exercise language information is provided. This can be called up by the user at any time by clicking on LANGUAGE INFO. But in some exercises, all noun, verb and adjective endings are omitted. For this more demanding exercise, LANGUAGE INFO provides only reference to the relevant pages of the Cambridge Latin Course.
Sorting Words asks you to sort words by meaning, case, etc.
Practising the Language exercises are digital versions of exercises in the Cambridge Latin Course textbooks.
Please note: the Cultural Background weblinks section has been removed.
