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 coat of arms of the town of Espenel in France: Azure with a golden lion; and  a silver strip with three moles facing  top right see  https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espenel



This book makes a great change from classical Latin. It starts with Columbus' discovery of the New World and continues up to the American Revolution, although this edition stops at the birth of Washington. Some may find the narrative too eurocentric but it should be remembered how old the book is. Nutting also wrote the more popular Ad Alpes.

This extract is from the story of Pocahontas:


Prope coloniam, quam Britanni in Virginiam deduxerant, habitabat quidam rex Indus, cui erat filia pulchra. Puella, quae Pocahonta appellabatur, colonos amavit, olimque servaverat eum ducem, de quo supra multa dixi; nam traditum est, cum ille ab Indis captus esset, hostesque eum interficere vellent, regis filiam suum corpus interposuisse. Id tamen multi credunt numquam esse factum, Fabrumque postea mentitum esse. Sed frumento certe et carne Pocahonta colonos saepe iuvit, et quondam ad oppidum nuntium misit, cum hostes oppidanos occidere pararent.


 

I have just retaken two of these tests a couple of years after creating them.

If you want to try the same quizzes go to https://www.moleboroughcollege.org/quizzes and scroll down. Don't be put off by deliberately childish design. By the very nature of testing exceptions, they are hard. But the quizzes do give the answers afterwards.

My result for the first one, exceptions to the first and second declension, and the last, compound pronouns, are below:







 

domus talparum sumptibus 

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