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Photography of the interior of room in a Roman house. A table with various bowls on it, a cupboard containing numerous vessels, a couch and a stool are visible against the backdrop of a decorated wall.

Stage 14: apud Salvium

Let’s head “apud Salvium” (into Salvius’ house) where preparations are under way for the imminent arrival of a special guest who’s travelled a long way…

Story explorers

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Story Explorers display the stories of the CLC in an interactive format, allowing you to check vocabulary, grammar parsing and derivations.

A woman with dark hair centre-parted and tied back. She wears a pale blue garment and elaborate gold coloured neck ornament.
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familia occupāta: domina cubiculum īnspicit

Rufilla has invited a relative to stay but has not yet found time to let Salvius know. Besides, she has other things to worry about, such as the state of the guest bedroom!

Mosaic of an urn showing the makers mark of Pompeian garum merchant, Aulus Umbricius Scaurus.
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familia occupāta: coquus cōnsilium capit

The whole household is put to work, and poor Volubilis has been ordered to make some particularly stinky fish sauce as a special treat for Rufilla’s guest.

A metal stand with four legs and a concave curved top with two bands of metal scrollwork joining each pair of legs.
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familia occupāta: fīlius tablīnum vīsitat

Salvius’ study has been ransacked, but there are no thieves here!

An open oyster shell on a clay plate with other shells to the left side. There is a metal spoon for scooping out the oyster resting on the oyster shell.
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familiāris advenit

This special guest’s visit has thrown the whole house into chaos. Now finally he is here, and it turns out that we have met him before…

An urn stands betwe two ornate silver tripods.
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tripodes argenteī

Bronze, silver and gold. Keeping up appearances - Salvius-style!

Photograph of a wooden Roman ladder originally discovered in a well, now displayed on a wall between two neoclassical arches.
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Practising the Language

clādēs Britannica

An innkeper describes the sack of London by British tribes.

Language activities

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Sorting Words asks you to drag and drop words to sort them by meaning, case, etc.

Words Endings gives you a sentence in English together with the same sentence in Latin, but with one or more endings to be chosen from a drop down list.

Vocab Testers are against the clock, multiple choice or type in, and can be set to all words in this stage, up to this stage, etc.

Reviewing the Language exercises are digital versions of exercises towards the back of the CLC textbooks.

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Sorting Words

Characters

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Sorting Words

Noun or adjectives?

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Sorting Words

Verb or adjective?

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Sorting Words

Adjective?

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Sorting Words

Adjectives 1

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Sorting Words

Adjectives 2

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Imports and exports

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Sorting Words

Briton or Roman?