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2025 OCR AS Level Latin
H043/02 Literature
Verified Question paper with Marking Scheme Attached
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Tuesday 20 May 2025 – Afternoon
AS Level Latin
H043/02 Literature
Time allowed: 2 hours
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
Do not use:
• a dictionary
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must be
clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and one question in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 12 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Answer one question in Section A and one question in Section B.
Section A Prose
Literature
Answer Question 1 or Question 2.
1 Read the following passages and answer the questions.
© Georgina Longley, Cicero: Pro Caelio, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "quid ego nunc argumentis huic crimini," to last line "non vestigium maximi facinoris reperietur." Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(a) quid … resistam (line 1): what question does Cicero ask? [2]
(b) Translate possum dicere … non esse credendam (lines 1–4). [5]
(c) possum etiam … reperietur (lines 4–9): how does Cicero make his words persuasive?
Make four points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [8]
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© Georgina Longley, Cicero: Pro Caelio, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "sed quid ego de dignitate istorum testium loquor?" to last line "sollertiam contraque fictas omnium insidias facile se per se ipsa defendat!" Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(d) sed quid … temperantes (lines 1–3):
(i) where did the events described here take place? [1]
(ii) how does Cicero use sarcasm to make fun of the witnesses? [4]
(e) sic enim … coniecisse (lines 3–7): how does Cicero make this a dramatic scene?
Make three points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [6]
(f) o magnam … defendat (lines 7–9): what points is Cicero making about truth? [4]
(g) * ‘Cicero’s speech mostly uses logic and reason to defend Caelius.’
To what extent is this true from what you have read in Cicero’s speech Pro Caelio?
You must use material from the parts of the text you have studied in English, where relevant, as well as
those parts you have read in Latin. [10]
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Do not answer this question if you have already answered Question 1.
2 Read the following passages and answer the questions.
© Allcock; Simon, Tacitus, Annals XII, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "multa eo anno prodigia evenere" to last line "navibusque et casibus vita populi Romani permissa est." Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(a) Translate multa eo … accipiebatur (lines 1–4). [5]
(b) nec occulti … turbidis (lines 4–5): how did the people show that they were discontented with the state of
affairs in Rome? [3]
(c) In lines 5–6 (pulsumque … perrupit), what happened to Claudius? [2]
(d) quindecim … permissa est (lines 6–11): how does Tacitus make this a disturbing picture of the
problems the Romans faced?
Make three points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [6]
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2025 OCR AS Level Latin
H043/02 Literature
Verified Question paper with Marking Scheme Attached
Oxford Cambridge and RSA
Tuesday 20 May 2025 – Afternoon
AS Level Latin
H043/02 Literature
Time allowed: 2 hours
You must have:
• the OCR 12-page Answer Booklet
Do not use:
• a dictionary
INSTRUCTIONS
• Use black ink.
• Write your answer to each question in the Answer Booklet. The question numbers must be
clearly shown.
• Fill in the boxes on the front of the Answer Booklet.
• Answer one question in Section A and one question in Section B.
INFORMATION
• The total mark for this paper is 80.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets [ ].
• Quality of extended response will be assessed in questions marked with an asterisk (*).
• This document has 12 pages.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start your answer.
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Answer one question in Section A and one question in Section B.
Section A Prose
Literature
Answer Question 1 or Question 2.
1 Read the following passages and answer the questions.
© Georgina Longley, Cicero: Pro Caelio, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "quid ego nunc argumentis huic crimini," to last line "non vestigium maximi facinoris reperietur." Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(a) quid … resistam (line 1): what question does Cicero ask? [2]
(b) Translate possum dicere … non esse credendam (lines 1–4). [5]
(c) possum etiam … reperietur (lines 4–9): how does Cicero make his words persuasive?
Make four points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [8]
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© Georgina Longley, Cicero: Pro Caelio, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "sed quid ego de dignitate istorum testium loquor?" to last line "sollertiam contraque fictas omnium insidias facile se per se ipsa defendat!" Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(d) sed quid … temperantes (lines 1–3):
(i) where did the events described here take place? [1]
(ii) how does Cicero use sarcasm to make fun of the witnesses? [4]
(e) sic enim … coniecisse (lines 3–7): how does Cicero make this a dramatic scene?
Make three points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [6]
(f) o magnam … defendat (lines 7–9): what points is Cicero making about truth? [4]
(g) * ‘Cicero’s speech mostly uses logic and reason to defend Caelius.’
To what extent is this true from what you have read in Cicero’s speech Pro Caelio?
You must use material from the parts of the text you have studied in English, where relevant, as well as
those parts you have read in Latin. [10]
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Do not answer this question if you have already answered Question 1.
2 Read the following passages and answer the questions.
© Allcock; Simon, Tacitus, Annals XII, Bloomsbury, 2023. From first line "multa eo anno prodigia evenere" to last line "navibusque et casibus vita populi Romani permissa est." Item removed due to third party copyright restrictions.
(a) Translate multa eo … accipiebatur (lines 1–4). [5]
(b) nec occulti … turbidis (lines 4–5): how did the people show that they were discontented with the state of
affairs in Rome? [3]
(c) In lines 5–6 (pulsumque … perrupit), what happened to Claudius? [2]
(d) quindecim … permissa est (lines 6–11): how does Tacitus make this a disturbing picture of the
problems the Romans faced?
Make three points and support your answer with reference to the Latin text. [6]
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