4C, who started Latin this year, have been working very hard on the Cambridge Latin Course. This morning they performed dramatisations based on their translations of 'in basilica' ('in the law court'), a story in which our hero, Caecilius, is robbed by a thieving Greek merchant, Hermogenes, and takes him to court in order to win back his money.

Above: the final scene in which the iudex (judge) convicts Hermogenes [A Sangha, M Akhtar, D Shortt]
Below: righteous Caecilius testifies in basilica. [H Nicol]

Above: Hermogenes forgets his line! [M Stalder, K Gill, J Chang]
Below: Hermogenes tries to hide his ring so that it cannot be matched to the seal on Caecilius' wax tablet [B Tarlton]