The Cambridge Latin Course is set firmly in the cultural context of the Roman world in the first century AD. Book III returns Roman Britain to look at life in Bath and Chester, investigating religion and the Roman army in the process.
The main language features of Book III include
- Perfect passive and active participles
- Formation of adjectives and adverbs
- Neuter nouns
- Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive
- Indirect questions
- Purpose clauses
- Indirect commands
- Result clauses
- Gerundives
- Ablative case
- Expressions of time
- Prepositions
The main civilisation topics include
- Aquae Sulis and its baths
- Magic and curses
- Roman religion: sacrifice, divination, state religion and romanisation
- Travel and communication
- The legionary soldier: recruitment, training, work, pay, promotion and auxiliaries
- Agricola, governor of Britain
- The legionary fortress
- Interpreting the evidence: literary, archaeological and inscriptional
