SQA Latin
Prescribed Texts, 2010
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Standard Grade (2010–12)
For General and Credit levels, for 2010, 2011 and 2012, the prescribed text will be:
Gellius, Noctes Atticae: extract from V.14: 5–9 in English, the rest of the extract in Latin
Seneca, Epistulae Morales: extract from 7 (i.7) in Latin
Augustine, Confessiones: extract from VI: 7–8 in English
Catullus, V in English*
Catullus, LXXXV in Latin*
Catullus, LXX in Latin*
Martial, VI.40 in Latin*
Catullus, LXXVI: lines 13–26 in Latin
Catullus, III in Latin*
Martial, I.109: lines 1–13, 17–23 in Latin*
Catullus, XIII in Latin*
Martial, III.60 in English*
Catullus, X in English
Ovid, Metamorphoses VI: lines 317–338 in English, lines 339–376 in Latin, lines 377–381 in
English
* For Foundation level, for 2010, 2011 and 2012, questions will be set on the asterisked extracts
only (Catullus and Martial).
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Intermediate 1 (2010–12)
Interpretation
Study of verse and prose texts, all of which will be prescribed, to be read partly in the original
language and partly in English. Prescriptions for the first year of the examination, and until
further notice, will be as follows:
Cicero, In Verrem IV, 84 (line 5) – 87 (line 11) and 94–95 (in Latin); 109 (line 4) – 112 (line 5)
(in English)
Catullus, LI (lines 1–12), V, LXX, LXXXV, VIII (in Latin); III, LXXVI (lines 13–26) (in English)
Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII, lines 183–189, 193–235 (in Latin)
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Intermediate 2
Interpretation
Study of verse and prose texts, all of which will be prescribed, to be read partly in the original
language and partly in English. Prescriptions for the first year of the examination, and until
further notice, will be as follows:
Cicero, In Verrem IV, 84 (line 5) – 87 (line 11) and 94–95 (in Latin); 109 (line 4) – 112 (line 5)
(in English)
Virgil, Aeneid VI, lines 268–336 and 440–476 (in Latin); Aeneid IV, lines 304–387, 595–629,
650–666, 693–705 (in English)
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Higher
Interpretation (Verse)
Study of prescribed verse texts, all of which will be prescribed, to be read partly in the original
language and partly in English. There will be a choice of authors.
Prescriptions for the first year of the examination, and until further notice, will be as follows:
Virgil, Aeneid VI, lines 268–476 (in Latin); lines 1–267 (in English)
or
Plautus, Rudens, lines 485-705 (in Latin); lines 1-484 (in English)
Interpretation (Prose)
Study of prescribed prose texts, all of which will be prescribed, to be read partly in the original
language and partly in English. There will be a choice of authors in Classical Greek.
Cicero, In Verrem V, 63–73 (line 7) (in Latin); 26–34 and 59–62 (in English)
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Advanced Higher
Prescriptions for the first year of the examination, and until further notice, will be as follows:
Either:
Cicero and Letter-writing
To be read in Latin:
Thirty-five Letters of Cicero (Stockton, Oxford University Press) 3, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14–17, 35.
To be read in English:
Cicero’s Letters to His Friends (translated by Shackleton Bailey, Penguin, vol. I) 7 (XIV.2),
187 (V.16), 200 (VII.28), 219 (XVI.18), 220 (XVI.20), 228 (VI.14);
Cicero’s Letters to Atticus (translated by Shackleton Bailey, Penguin) 14 (I.14), 73 (IV.1),
94 (V.1);
Letters of the Younger Pliny (translated by Radice, Penguin) I.14, I.15, II.6, II.11, III.14, V.9,
V.19, VIII.16, VIII.24, X.96, X.97;
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic (translated by Campbell, Penguin) II, III, VII, XXVIII, XLVII, LVI
or:
Ovid and Latin Love-poetry
To be read in Latin:
Ovid, Amores I. 1–3, 4 (lines 1–34), 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15
To be read in English:
Ovid, Amores (translated by Green, Penguin): I. 4 (lines 35-70), 7, 8, 13; II, 6, 7, 8; III, 2, 9, 12;
Catullus (translated by Whigham, Penguin): 3, 7, 11, 51, 70, 72, 76, 85;
Propertius (translated by Shepherd, Penguin): I.1, 2, 3, 7, 16, 19; II. 5; IV.7;
Tibullus (translated by Dunlop, Penguin): I. 1, 2; II. 4;
Horace (translated by Shepherd, Penguin): Odes I. 5, 13, 23, 25, 33; III. 7, 9, 10; IV.13
Copies of a booklet of plain text of the complete prescription are available from SQA to
presenting centres for use in class. The text provided in the examination will be that issued by
SQA. For study of the prescribed text in class, any suitable editions may be used.
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