The legionary fortress at Deva (Chester) is alive with activity. The soldiers are polishing, fixing and cleaning so as to look their best. Everyone is anticipating the imminent arrival of Agricola - the Roman governor of Britain. Hail to the chief!
At last, we meet the man in charge of running the Roman province of Britain. He's a popular leader and a successful general - he is Agricola! But, as he discovers, all is not well in camp...
The Stories
in principiis Page 92
Treachery, madness and lies - it's all happening in the headquarters. Agricola can hardly believe what he's hearing about King Cogidubnus. Will Salvius succeed in deceiving Agricola? Will Cogidubnus survive the slanders? And where's Quintus when he's needed?
tribunus Page 95
The going's getting tough for Quintus - but his trials and tribulations may be over thanks to the evidence of a military officer - a tribune - a seemingly complete stranger. Or is he? This could be "mission accomplished" for Quintus!
contentio Page 97
Showdown! Agricola confronts Salvius... and Salvius fights back! It's a battle of words between two powerful Romans - but even they are stunned by a shocking announcement.
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.
