Ablative Phrasebook: Mastering Latin's Most Interesting Case

There is no way around the ablative case if you want to understand Latin. It is practically everywhere. Mastering the ablative early will give you a decisive advantage and make Latin a far more enjoyable experience.

We learn languages best by attending to, remembering, and appropriately imitating examples of communication. This example-book includes two bilingual treasuries of ablative phrases that can supply any introductory or more advanced courses with material for supplementary and diagnostic exercises.

Part I first explains the ideas of case and declension and then it presents the ablative case-forms across all the declensions. The first treasury of examples (Part II) extracts more than 400 items from Allen and Greenough’s New Latin Grammar to help you consider ablative usage without a great deal of possibly distracting explanatory material. The focus is on studying the instances that will best develop your feeling for ablative usage. The second treasury of examples (Part III) provides over 200 examples of ablative usage from the third book of Caesar’s Gallic Wars (De Bello Gallico).

This book focuses on ablative usages apart from prepositional phrases. For the latter, see Latin Prepositions: A Handbook for Teachers and Students.