The Cambridge Latin Course is set firmly in the cultural context of the Roman world in the first century AD. Book II focuses on life in two Roman provinces: first Roman Britain, then Roman Egypt.
The main language features of Book II include
- Genitive and vocative, singular and plural, of nouns of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd declensions
- Pluperfect tense, all persons, of verbs of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th conjugations
- Word order
- Further pronouns
- Adjectives of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd declensions
- Irregular verbs (volo, nolo, possum)
- Relative clauses
- Present infinitive
- Present participle
- Present imperative
- Longer sentences with postquam, simulac etc.
The main civilisation topics include
- Slavery and economy in Roman Britain
- The Romans in Britain: the British tribes, Roman conquest and Romanisation, trade
- The British king Cogidubnus
- The palace at Fishbourne
- Alexandria: the city, the Pharos, underwater discoveries
- Egypt: craftmanship and peasant life
- The worship of Isis
- Medicine and science
