In Popular Culture
The popularity of the Cambridge Latin Course is such that the series has even been indirectly referenced in television. The ancillary characters Caecilius, Metella and Quintus in the Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii are loosely based on those from the Cambridge Latin Course. And in the opening episode of series four of Being Human the 'Vampire Recorder' blurts out words from Book One of the Cambridge Latin Course, ('Caecilius est in horto!') as part of the general nonsense he is chanting whilst pretending to perform a sacrificial ceremony.
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