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From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:26:49 -0800
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for February 1, 2025

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Group Listings:

Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin
Assignments:
     Feb 4 - Mar 4 no assignments
     Mar 11 "Miracles and Frauds," pp. 211-12.
     Mar 18 "The Founding of Conca and ..." pp. 329-40, lines 151-170.
     Mar 25 "Henry on the way to Canossa,"
         pp. 213-4, to "successit difficultas."

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 3 - Mar 3 no assignments
     Mar 7 7.30.12-17
     Mar 14 7.30.18-23
     Mar 21 7.31.1-5
     Mar 28 7.31.6-12

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 3 - Mar 3 no assignments
     Mar 7 22.50.1-6
     Mar 14 22.50.7-12
     Mar 21 22.51.1-5
     Mar 28 22.51.6-52.2

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 3 - Mar 3 no assignments
     Mar 7 4.49(part)
     Mar 14 4.49(contd.)
     Mar 21 4.50(part)
     Mar 28 4.50(contd.)-51

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Feb 3 - Mar 3 no assignments
     Mar 7 7.104-106
     Mar 14 7.107, 109-110
     Mar 21 7.111-115
     Mar 28 7.116-117

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 King Cotys:
             ll. 1-14: 3 February
             ll. 15-30: 10 February
             ll. 31-46: 17 February
             ll. 47-62: 24 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 III:
         p. 63-65, ll. 314-330: 3 February
         p. 65, ll. 331-344: 10 February
         p. 65-67, ll. 345-360: 17 February
         p.67, ll. 361-375: 24 February

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
      Liber XV:
          VIII Julian !!!:
              sections 13-14: 3 February
              sections 15-17: 10 February
              sections 18-19: 17 February
              sections 20-22: 14 February

Group: Seneca's Agamemnon (Seneca Agamemnon)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.agamemnon.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Chorus: ll. 103-107 &
     Act II Clytemnestra, ll. 108-124: 3 February
         ll. 125-140: 10 February
         ll. 141-154: 17 February
         ll. 155-174: 24 February

Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
      Georgics III:
          ll. 525-540:  3 February
          ll. 541-555: 10 February
          ll. 556-end: 17 February
     Georgics IV:
         ll. 1-17: 24 February

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 XXXIX: To Comum
         p. 222, ll. 27-40: 3 February
         p. 222, ll.41-56: 10 February
         p. 223, ll. 57-71: 17 February
         p. 223-225, ll. 72-89: 24 February

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber X
         Story I: Cicero's advice to Pompey
             sections 1-6: 3 February
             sections 7-end: 10 February
          Story II: Aristotle on the number of children...: 17 February
          Story III: Speeches of T. Gracchus, Cicero, and Cato
              sections 1-5: 24 February

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Clodius Albinus):
         section 11: 3 February
         section 12: 10 February
         section 13: 17 February
         section 14: 24 February

Group: Claudian’s Carmina minora (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/2/2025: Epithalamium 330-341 (end)
     2/9/2025: In Eutropium I:1-20
     2/16/2025: In Eutropium I:21-41
     2/23/2025: In Eutropium I:42-53
     3/2/2025: In Eutropium I:54-77a
     3/9/2025: In Eutropium I:77b-97
     3/16/2025: In Eutropium I:98-118
     3/23/2025: In Eutropium I:119-137
     3/30/2025: In Eutropium I:138-156
     4/6/2025: In Eutropium I:157-180
     4/13/2025: In Eutropium I:181-198
     4/20/2025: In Eutropium I:199-214
     4/27/2025: In Eutropium I:215-231
     5/4/2025: In Eutropium I:232-251
     5/11/2025: In Eutropium I:252-271a
     5/18/2025: In Eutropium I:271b-286
     5/25/2025: In Eutropium I:287-307

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/2/2025: 86 (suas praeparat)
     2/9/2025: 87
     2/16/2025: 88 (domino omnipotente)
     2/23/2025: 88 (dicit dominus)
     3/2/2025: 89 (sollemnitatum vestrarum)
     3/9/2025: 89 (fratrem suum)
     3/16/2025: 89 (facti sunt)
     3/23/2025: 90 (vana eloquia)
     3/30/2025: 90 (medio eorum)
     4/6/2025: 91 (suam liberavit)
     4/13/2025: 91 (tuam eripuisti)
     4/20/2025: 92 (sermo est)
     4/27/2025: 92 (quosque hominibus)
     5/4/2025: 93 (constituta habetur)
     5/11/2025: 93 (sensu interpretari)
     5/18/2025: 94 (de vobis)
     5/25/2025: 94 (eventit)

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/2/2025: 1.56/18-57/3
     2/9/2025: 1.57/4-20 (dicunt)
     2/16/2025: 1.57/20-30
     2/23/2025: 1.58/1-19
     3/2/2025: 1.58/20-59/1 (approbatam)
     3/9/2025: 1.59/1-16
     3/16/2025: 1.59/17-29
     3/23/2025: 1.60/1-19
     3/30/2025: 1.60/20-61/10
     4/6/2025: 1.61/11-30 (vilia)
     4/13/2025: 1.61/30-62/17
     4/20/2025: 1.62/18-63/1 (septimum)
     4/27/2025: 1.63/1-17
     5/4/2025: 2.64/1-18
     5/11/2025: 2.64/19-65/13
     5/18/2025: 2.65/14-66/3 (scire)
     5/25/2025: 2.66/3-2.66/18

Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/9/2025: II.1.123
     2/16/2025: II.1.124
     2/23/2025: II.1.125
     3/2/2025: II.1.126
     3/9/2025: II.1.127
     3/16/2025: II.1.128
     3/23/2025: II.1.129
     3/30/2025: II.1.130
     4/6/2025: II.1.131
     4/13/2025: II.1.132
     4/20/2025: II.1.133
     4/27/2025: II.1.134
     5/4/2025: II.1.135
     5/11/2025: II.1.136
     5/18/2025: II.1.137
     5/25/2025: II.1.138

Group: Seneca’s Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Seneca Epistulae)
Text: posted, and http://thelatinlibrary.com/sen.html
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/9/2025: 7.66.22-24
     2/16/2025: 7.66.25-27
     2/23/2025: 7.66.28-30
     3/2/2025: 7.66.31-33
     3/9/2025: 7.66.34-36
     3/16/2025: 7.66.37-39
     3/23/2025: 7.66.40-42
     3/30/2025: 7.66.43-45
     4/6/2025: 7.66.46-48
     4/13/2025: 7.66.49-51
     4/20/2025: 7.66.52-53
     4/27/2025: 7.67.1-3
     5/4/2025: 7.67.4-6
     5/11/2025: 7.67.7-9
     5/18/2025: 7.67.10-12
     5/25/2025: 7.67.13-15

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     2/9/2025: XII. 612-628 (end)
     2/16/2025: XIII. 1-20
     2/23/2025: XIII. 21-33
     3/2/2025: XIII. 34-54
     3/9/2025: XIII. 55-81
     3/16/2025: XIII. 82-102
     3/23/2025: XIII. 103-119
     3/30/2025: XIII. 120-139
     4/6/2025: XIII. 140-161
     4/13/2025: XIII. 162-180
     4/20/2025: XIII. 181-204
     4/27/2025: XIII. 205-227
     5/4/2025: XIII. 228-246
     5/11/2025: XIII. 247-267
     5/18/2025: XIII. 268-279
     5/25/2025: XIII. 280-295

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Feb 5  Matthew 26:67-75
     Feb 12 Matthew 27:1-11
     Feb 19 Matthew 27:12-22
     Feb 26 Matthew 27:23-33
     Mar 5 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Mar 12 Matthew 27:34-44
     Mar 19 Matthew 27:45-56
     Mar 26 Matthew 27:57-66
     Apr 2 Matthew 28:1-10
     Apr 9 Matthew 28:11-20 The End!
     Apr 16 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 23 Baruch 1:1-11
     Apr 30 Baruch 1:12-22
     May 7 Baruch 2:1-12
     May 14 Baruch 2:13-25
     May 21 Baruch 2:26-35
     May 28 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 5 De Civitate Dei 5.26d, f
         rom "Cetera uero..." through, "...tacere noluerit."
     Feb 12 De Civitate Dei 5.26e,
         from "Aut quid est..." to the end.  End of Book V!!
     Feb 19 De Civitate Dei 6.0
     Feb 26 De Civitate Dei 6.1a, through "...nobilioresque senserunt."
     Mar 5 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Mar 12 De Civitate Dei 6.1b,
         from "Ceterum quis..." through "...habere uel uitem?"
     Mar 19 De Civitate Dei 6.1c,
         from "Inpudentissimae igitur..." through "...supplicetur aeterna!"
     Mar 26 De Civitate Dei 6.1d,
         from "Quam ob rem…" through "...mortalibus facere!"
     Apr 2 De Civitate Dei 6.1e,
         from "Huc accedit," through "...ipsa praestaret."
     Apr 9 De Civitate Dei 6.1f, from "Nunc uero cum…" to the end.
     Apr 16 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 23 De Civitate Dei 6.2a, through "...fuisset oblitus."
     Apr 30 De Civitate Dei 6.2b,
          from "In primo autem..." through "...detestanda conscriberet."
     May 7 De Civitate Dei 6.2c, from "Cum uero deos..." to the end.
     May 14 De Civitate Dei 6.3a, through "...distinctione commendans."
     May 21 De Civitate Dei 6.3b, from "Sed quia oportebat..." to the end.
     May 28 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 5 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.15a,
         through "...tropologiam multa obteguntur."
     Feb 12 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.15b, from "Quae quanto magis..." to end.
     Feb 19 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.16
     Feb 26 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.17
     Mar 5 No Assignment - Ash Wednesday
     Mar 12 De Doctrina Christana 4.7.18a, through "...voce singula finirentur."
     Mar 19 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.18b,
         from "Sed pulchrius factum... to end.
     Mar 26 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.19
     Apr 2 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.20
     Apr 9 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.21
     Apr 16 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 23 De Doctrina Christiana 4.8.22
     Apr 30 De Doctrina Christiana 4.9.23
     May 7 De Doctrina Christiana 4.10.24a, through "...indoctis dici solet."
     May 14 De Doctrina Christiana 4.10.24b,
         from "Si enim non piguit..." to end.
     May 21 De Doctrina Christiana 4.10.25a,
         through "...panduntur difficultate pendebat."
     May 28 No Assignment - Memorial Day (US)

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 182 Ex 5.12
     Feb 13 Assignment 183 Ex 5.13

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 6 - cap. 22, EX
     Feb 13 - cap. 22, SA
     Feb 20 - cap. 22, TR
     Feb 27 - cap. 23, EX

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 4 - 25. Labuntur Anni
     Feb 11 - 26. Sense of Balance
     Feb 18 - 27 & 28. Dies F.; Monument
     Feb 25 - 29, 30, 31 (Phaedrus)

Group: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (RFF)
Text: https://archive.org/details/ritchiesfabulae00kirtgoog
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Feb 6 - #38. 10th labor: oxen
     Feb 13 - #39. Golden ship
     Feb 20 - #40. Miraculous hail storm
     Feb 27 - #41. Passage of Alps

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 4 - p. 294, 9-24
         ("minine!" ..... posse.")
     Feb 11 - p. 294, 25 - 295, 8
         (Bilbo omnia ..... demum uenirent.)
     Feb 18 - p. 295, 9-18
         (sed, aquilis ..... abstulit.)
     Feb 25 - p. 295, 19 to bottom
         (cito ..... pacem.)

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
     Feb 4 - cap. 31, 132-160, ex. 10 (1-5)
     Feb 11 - cap. 31, 161-180, ex. 7 ; 10 (6-8)
     Feb 18 - cap. 31, 181-204, ex. 9 ; 10 (9-12)
     Feb 25 - cap. 31, 205-219, ex. 8 ; 11 ; 12

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
     Feb 4 - cap. 48, 162-179; ex. 3, 4 (13-15)
     Feb 11 - cap. 48, 180-217; ex. 6 (1-5)
     Feb 18 - cap. 48, 218-253; ex. 6 (6-11)
     Feb 25 - cap. 48, 254-271; ex. 5, 6 (12-17)

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