This innovative introduction to traditional Latin grammar uses examples taken from the Classical Latin canon to communicate the essentials of the language to beginning students. As well as providing an entertaining window on the cultural world inhabited by celebrated literati such as Cicero and Julius Caesar, this distinctive approach to learning Latin is excellent preparation for students impending immersion in the great works of classical Latin literature. Informed throughout by feedback from the classroom, this accessible guide includes numerous illustrations and translation exercises that prove the relevance of the dictum experience is the teacher of all things. Above all, this textbook enables students to arrive at a depth of knowledge in Latin grammar such that they may remind themselves that iucundi acti labores: accomplished labours are pleasant.