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From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 21:41:08 -0800
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for February 6, 2024


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Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin
Assignments:
     Feb 6 "Liutprand at Constantinople," pp. 193-4
         from "His itaque gestis" to the end.
     Feb 13 "De Passione Christi," p. 315.
     Feb 20 "De Origine Gentis Saxonicae." pp. 194-5
         to "pacem esse arbitrabantur."
     Feb 27 "Ad Chilpericum et Fredegundam," p. 316.



Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Feb 12 7.11.10-12.4
     Feb 19 7.12.5-11
     Feb 26 7.12.12-13.3



Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Feb 12 22.27.5-28.2
     Feb 19 22.28.3-9
     Feb 26 22.28.10-29.2



Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Feb 12 4.14(part)
     Feb 19 4.14(contd.)-15(part)
     Feb 26 4.15(contd.)-16(part)



Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Feb 12 6.121-2
     Feb 19 6.160-1
     Feb 26 6.162, 165



Group: Ovid's Epistulae Ex Ponto (Exile)
Text: posted, and www.thelatinlibrary.com
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Ex Ponto Liber II
         To Germanicus:
             ll. 1-16: 12 February
             ll. 17-3r: 19 February
             ll. 36-50: 26 February



Group: Geoffrey of Monmouth (BritishKings)
Text: "The History of the Kings of Britain" by Michael Reeve & Neil Wright
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Book II:
         p. 39, ll. 149-162: 12 February
         p. 39, ll. 163-171: 19 February
         pp. 39-41, ll. 172-185: 26 February



Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XV:
         III. Punishment of Gallus' friends:
             Sections 2&3: 12 February
             Sections 4&5: 19 February
             Sections 6&7: 26 February



Group: Seneca's Medea (Seneca Medea)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/octavia.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Act 3:
         ll. 431-446: 12 February
         ll. 447-460: 19 February
         ll. 461-481: 26 February



Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Georgics II:
         ll. 431-445: 12 February
         ll. 446-460: 19 February
         ll. 461-474: 26 February



Group: Martial's Epigrams (Martial)
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/martial/mart.spec.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber V:  on hold pending Don's return



Group: Ad Alpes (AdAlpes)
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Text: Ad Alpes — A Tale of Roman Life by H.C. Nutting
Text: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b60534;view=1up;seq=19
Comment: easy Latin
Assignments:
     Caput XXXIV: To Parma
         pp. 194-195, ll. 106-120: 12 February
         p. 195, ll. 121-133: 19 February
         p. 195 ll. 134-end; Caput XXXV, p.196, ll. 1-10: 26 February



Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber VII:
         Story 9: a bit from Lucius Piso's Annales: 12 February
         Story 10:  Philosophical disputes: 19 February
         Story 11: Mettelus against Manlius: 26 February



Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Severus):
         section 4: 12 February
         section 5: 19 February
         section 6: 26 February



Group: Campio's Gunpowder Plot (Campion Gunpowder)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     -- Inactive




Group: Dobson's Paradise Lost (Dobson Paradisus Amissus)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     -- Inactive



Group: Petrarch's Africa (Petrarch Africa)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     -- Inactive



Group: Poetry of Claudian (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     -- Inactive



Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 2/11/2024: 63
     Assignment due 2/18/2024: 64
     Assignment due 2/25/2024: 65
     Assignment due 3/3/2024: 66 (amplificantes)
     Assignment due 3/10/2024: 66 (doctissimos)
     Assignment due 3/17/2024: 66 (suscipiunt)
     Assignment due 3/24/2024: 67 (perditionem)
     Assignment due 3/31/2024: 67 (comparetur)
     Assignment due 4/7/2024: 67 (extensuri)



Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 2/11/2024: 1.22.33/20-34/2 (habitant)
     Assignment due 2/18/2024: 1.23.34/3-21 (iniuriis)
     Assignment due 2/25/2024: 1.23.34/21-35/7 (ipsa)
     Assignment due 3/3/2024: 1.35/7-25 (pereunt)
     Assignment due 3/10/2024: 1.35/26-36/10 (proximos)
     Assignment due 3/17/2024: 1.36/10-36/29 (statuerunt)
     Assignment due 3/24/2024: 1.36/29-37/20 (maxime)
     Assignment due 3/31/2024: 1.37/21-38/2 (vallis)
     Assignment due 4/7/2024: 1.38/3-20 (plurima)




  Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 2/11/2024: II.1.77
     Assignment due 2/18/2024: II.1.78
     Assignment due 2/25/2024: II.1.79
     Assignment due 3/3/2024: II.1.80
     Assignment due 3/10/2024: II.1.81
     Assignment due 3/17/2024: II.1.82
     Assignment due 3/24/2024: II.1.83
     Assignment due 3/31/2024: II.1.84
     Assignment due 4/7/2024: II.1.85



Group: Seneca’s Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Seneca)
Text: posted, and http://thelatinlibrary.com/sen.html
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 2/4/2024: 6.57.1-3
     Assignment due 2/11/2024: 6.57.4-6
     Assignment due 2/18/2024: 6.57.7-9
     Assignment due 2/25/2024: 6.58.1-3
     Assignment due 3/3/2024: 6.58.4-6
     Assignment due 3/10/2024: 6.58.7-9
     Assignment due 3/17/2024: 6.58.10-12
     Assignment due 3/24/2024: 6.58.13-15
     Assignment due 3/31/2024: 6.58.16-18
     Assignment due 4/7/2024: 6.58.19-21



Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     -- Inactive



Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments
     Feb 7 Matthew 14:13-24
     Feb 14 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Feb 21 Matthew 14:25-36
     Feb 28 Matthew 15:1-13
     Mar 6 Matthew 15:14-26
     Mar 13 Matthew 15:27-39
     Mar 20 Matthew 16:1-14
     Mar 27 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 3 Matthew 16:15-28
     Apr 10 Matthew 17:1-13
     Apr 17 Matthew 17:14-26
     Apr 24 Matthew 18:1-11
     May 1 Matthew 18:12-23
     May 8 Matthew 18:24-35
     May 15 Matthew 19:1-10
     May 22 Matthew 19:11-20
     May 29 No Assignment - Memorial Day (US)




Group: Augustine / The City of God (Augustine)
Text: posted, see also: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/august.html
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Assignments:
     Feb 7 De Civitate Dei 5.12a, through "...cupiditate presserunt."
     Feb 14 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Feb 21 De Civitate Dei 5.12b,
         from "Ipsam denique patriam..." through, "...hominum existimationem."
     Feb 28 De Civitate Dei 5.12c,
         from "Laudat idem Sallustius..." through, "...aut liberos uiuere."
     Mar 6 De Civitate Dei 5.12d,
         from "Sed cum esset adepta..." through "...debellare superbos."
     Mar 13 De Civitate Dei 5.12e,
         from "Has artes illi..." through, "...honorem imperium.
     Mar 20 De Civitate Dei 5.12f,
         from "Hoc insitum..." through, "...ipsa uirtutem."
     Mar 27 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 3 De Civitate Dei 5.12g,
         from "Neque enim est..." through, "...ambitio possidet."
     Apr 10 De Civitate Dei 5.12h,
         from "Neque mirum:" through "...reuocare ciuilem."
     Apr 17 De Civitate Dei 5.12i, from "Sed per quosdam paucos," to end.
     Apr 24 De Civitate Dei 5.13a, through, "...sed minus turpes sunt."
     May 1 De Civitate Dei 5.13b, from "Etiam Tullius hinc…" to the end.
     May 8 De Civitate Dei 5.14a, through "...magis quam Dei."
     May 15 De Civitate Dei 5.14b,
         from "Quod sancti apostoli..." through, "...qui in caelis est."
     May 22 De Civitate Dei 5.14c, from "Sed rursus ne..." to the end.
     May 29 No Assignment - Memorial Day (US)



Group: Augustine / De Doctrina Christiana (Christiana)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, see also https://www.augustinus.it/latino/dottrina_cristiana/index.htm
Assignments
     Feb 7 De Doctrina Christiana 3.33.46a, through "...Domino Iesu Christo."
     Feb 14 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Feb 21 De Doctrina Christiana 3.33.46b,
         from "Sed non erat expertus..." to end.
     Feb 28 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.47a,
         thru "...divinis reperiatur eloquiis."
     Mar 6 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.47b, from "Non solum enim…" to the end.
     Mar 13 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.48a, through, "...fecit et passus est."
     Mar 20 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34 48b,
         from "Alia etiam quae…" through, "...omnibus immunditiis vestris."
     Mar 27 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 3 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.48c,
         from "Hoc de Novo Testamento..." to end.
     Apr 10 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.49a, through "...terra viventium."
     Apr 17 De Doctrina Christiana 3.34.49b,
         from "Ipsa intellegenda est..." to end.
     Apr 24 De Doctrina Christiana 3.35.50a, thru "...vestimenta eius ut nix."
     May 1 De Doctrina Christiana 3.35.50b,
         from "Utrumque enim verum..." to end.
     May 8 De Doctrina Christiana 3.35.51
     May 15 De Doctrina Christiana 3.36.52a, through "...bonum in escam."
     May 22 De Doctrina Christiana 3.36.52b, from "Denique secutus…" to end.
     May 29 No Assignment - Memorial Day (US)




Group: Milton's Samson Agonistes (Samson Agonistes)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: 
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc1.1002253399&view=1up&seq=190&skin=2021
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: The Elegies of Propertius (Propertius)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: http://latin.packhum.org/loc/620/1/0#0 and posted
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: Cicero's Philippics (Cicero Philippics)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: Punica (Punica)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: Pharsalia Selections (Pharsalia)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: Lucan's Civil War (Lucan)
Coordinator: Donald Wright <wrightdonald6 at gmail dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     see the mailing list or contact Don



Group: Latin to GCSE, Part 2 (Cullen2)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: Latin Beyond GCSE Second Edition by John Taylor
Comment: Intermediate Latin
Assignments:
     Feb 6  Assignment 141  Ex 3.7-3.8; Ritchie 25
     Feb 13 Ex 3.9 divided into a and b Scipio and Hannibal's speeches
     Feb 20 Ex 3.10-3.12 ; Ritchie 26



Group: Wheelock Beginners (Wheelock Red)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. rev., ISBN 978-0061997228
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two or three weeks
Assignments:
     Feb 8 - cap. 7, EX
     Feb 15 - cap. 7, SA
     Feb 22 - cap. 7, TR
     Feb 29 - cap. 8, EX
     Mar 7 - cap. 8, SA
     Mar 14 - cap. 8, TR
     Mar 21 - cap. 9, EX
     Mar 28 - no assignment




Group: Wheelock Beginners (Argus)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. rev., ISBN 978-0061997228
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Comment: A chapter of Wheelock every two or three weeks
Assignmnents:
     Feb 8 - cap. 40 EX
     Feb 15 - cap. 40 SA
     Feb 22 - cap. 40 TR ('Jupiter')
     Feb 29 - cap. 40 TR ('The value'; 'A monument') [FINIS]




Group: Loci (Loci Immutati from Wheelock's Latin)
Text: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. rev., ISBN 978-0061997228
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Feb 8 - cap. 40 EX
     Feb 15 - cap. 40 SA
     Feb 22 - cap. 40 TR ('Jupiter')
     Feb 29 - cap. 40 TR ('The value'; 'A monument')




Group: Hobbitus Ille (Hobbit)
Text: Hobbitus Ille by JRR Tolkein; trans, by Mark Walker; ISBN:978-0007445219
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Feb 6 - p. 273, "0"-12
         (CAPVT ..... introiuerat.)
     Feb 13 - p. 273, 13 - 274, 2
         (in hoc modo ..... non est!")
     Feb 20 - p. 274, 3-16
         (sed Thorinus ..... interiore," Bilbo inquit.)
     Feb 27 - p. 274, 17 - 275, 2
         ("ita credo; ..... excites.")
     Mar 5 - p. 275, 3-16
         (quam primum ..... uado transire posset.)
     Mar 12 - p. 275, 16-27
         (paene transiit cum ..... apparuit.)
     Mar 19 - 275, 28 - 276, 8
         (statim eum ..... habeo.")
     Mar 26 - p. 276, 9-21
         (itaque, ..... deposita erat!)



Group: Lingua Latina Pars I (Tern)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars I: Familia Romana
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Comment: One chapter every week
     Jan 9 - cap. 26, 61-82, ex. 4 ; 6 (8-12)
     Jan 16 - cap. 26, re-read 32-82, ex. 5
     Jan 23 - cap. 26, 83-102, ex. 9 (1-7)
     Jan 30 - cap. 26, 102-120, ex. 7 ; 9 (8-10)
     Feb 6 - cap. 26, 121-145, ex. 8 ; 9 (11-13)
     Feb 13 - cap. 26, 'grammatica', ex 10 ; 11
     Feb 20 - cap. 27, 1-28, ex. 1 ; 3 (1-10)
     Feb 27 - cap. 27, 29-49, ex. 2 ; 3 (11-15)
     Mar 5 - cap. 27, 50-73, ex. 6 (1-6)
     Mar 12 - cap. 27, 74-91, ex. 4 ; 6 (7-10)
     Mar 19 - cap. 27, 92-114, ex. 5 ; 6 (11-14)
     Mar 26 - cap. 27, 115-137, ex. 10 (1-5)




Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Feb 8 - cap. 53, 65-111, ex. 2 (7-11)
     Feb 15 - cap. 53, 112-177, ex. 2 (12-14) and 4 (1-4)
     Feb 22 - cap. 53, 178-235, ex. 4 (5-11)
     Feb 29 - cap. 53, 236-303, ex. 4 (12-18)
     Mar 7 - cap. 53, 304-354, ex. 6 (1-7)
     Mar 14 - cap. 53, 355-412, ex. 6 (8-14)
     Mar 21 - cap. 54, 1-53, ex. 2 (1-6)
     Mar 28 - no assignment




Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
     Feb 6 - cap. 45, 65-89; ex. 2 ; 3 (16-17)
     Feb 13 - cap. 45, 90-120; ex. 6 (1-7)
     Feb 20 - cap. 45, 121-147; ex. 4 (1-9) ; 6 (8-12)
     Feb 27 - cap. 45, 148-167; ex. 5 ; 6 (13-17)
     Mar 5 - cap. 45, 168-195; ex. 9 (1-8)
     Mar 12 - cap. 45, 196-216; ex. 7 ; 9 (9-14)
     Mar 19 - cap. 45, 217-228; ex. 8 ; 9 (15-17)
     Mar 26 - cap. 45, 229-252; ex. 12 (1-5)

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