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From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com> Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2023 15:27:35 -0700 Subject: Latin Activities: Update for June 3, 2023 This email is from the LatinStudy mailing list. ========================================================================= The LatinStudy list is an open mailing list dedicated to the study of the Latin language. The URL http://www.quasillum.com/study/latinstudy.php describes the list in more detail. This activities update is published periodically, roughly monthly. A copy is at http://www.quasillum.com/latin/latin-activities.php Coordinators should send updates to Kirk Lougheed <lougheed at pobox dot com>. ========================================================================= Group Listings: Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin Assignments: Jun 6 "The Confession of Golias", pp. 365-6, lines 1-32. Jun 13 "Ad Altsigum Abbatem," p. 176. Jun 20 "The Confession of Golias", pp. 366-7, lines 33-64. Jun 27 "Ad Ansbaldum" and "Ad Hincmarum", pp. 177-8 Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted Assignments: Jun 5 6.37.6-11 Jun 12 6.37.12-38.4 Jun 19 6.38.5-8 Jun 26 6.38.9-13 Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted Assignments: Jun 5 22.9.2-8 Jun 12 22.9.9-10.3 Jun 19 22.10.4-8 Jun 26 22.10.9-11.3 Group: Suetonius (Suetonius) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suet.html and posted Assignments: Jun 5 Domitian 14.1-3 Jun 12 Domitian 14.4-15.1 Jun 19 Domitian 15.2-3 Jun 26 Domitian 16 Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted Assignments: Jun 5 3.64 Jun 12 3.65 Jun 19 3.66 Jun 26 3.6 Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: posted Assignments: Jun 5 4.103-4 Jun 12 4.112, 119 Jun 19 5.1-2 Jun 26 5.3-4 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 I: To Rufinus: ll. 61-76: 5 June ll. 77-end: 12 June To his Wife: ll. 1-16: 19 June ll. 17-34: 26 June 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 I: pp. 17-19, ll. 242-265: 5 June p.19, ll. 266-275: 12 June p. 19, ll. 275-288: 19 June pp. 19-21, ll. 288-302: 26 June Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber XIV; IX On Constantius Gallus Caesar: Sections 8-9: 5 June X Constantius grants peace to the Alamanni: Sections: 1-2: 12 June Sections: 3-4: 19 June Sections: 5-6: 26 June Group: Seneca's Octavia (Seneca Octavia) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/octavia.shtml Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Octavia Seneca: ll. 958-971: 5 June ll. 972-982: 12 June (the end) Medea (Seneca): start to be announced Group: Georgics (Vergil) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber I: ll. 441-453: 5 June ll. 454-473: 12 June ll. 474-486: 19 June ll. 487-497: 26 June Group: Martial's Epigrams (Martial) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/martial/mart.spec.shtml Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: on hiatus as of June 1, 2023 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 XXXI To Fanum Fortunae: p. 175, ll. 1-16: 5 June pp. 175-176, ll. 17-30: 12 June p. 176, ll. 31-44: 19 June pp. 176-177, ll. 45-61: 26 June Group: Caesar's De Bello Alexandrino (CaesarAW) Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Text: posted and http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/caes.html Assignments: section 62: 5 June section 63: 12 June section 64: 19 June section 65: 26 June Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights) Text: posted Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber VII: Story 11: Two words that have different meanings: sections 1-6: 5 June sections 7-end: 12 June Story 12: A tunic type Scipio Africanus disapproves of: 19 June Story 13: Cato on class distinctions: 26 June Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA) Text: posted Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: SHA (Commodus) section 15: 5 June section 16: 12 June section 17: 19 June section 18: 26 June Group: Campio's Gunpowder Plot (Campion Gunpowder) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: I.367-387 Assignment due 7/30/2023: I.389-411 Assignment due 8/6/2023: I.412-431 Assignment due 8/13/2023: I.432-451 Assignment due 8/20/2023: I.452-469 Assignment due 8/27/2023: I.470-485 Group: Dobson's Paradise Lost (Dobson Paradisus Amissus) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: I.283 (Arma)-284 (asp’ra ciebunt) Assignment due 7/30/2023: I.284 (Hos adeo)-284 (tonanti:) Assignment due 8/6/2023: I.284 (Dividite)-285 (aperto) Assignment due 8/13/2023: I.285 (Has)-286 (arundo) Assignment due 8/20/2023: I.286 (Nos)-286 (pelago) Assignment due 8/27/2023: I.286 (Sed strata)-287(amicos) Group: Petrarch's Africa (Petrarch Africa) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: I.409-426 Assignment due 7/30/2023: I.427-452 Assignment due 8/6/2023: I.453-473 Assignment due 8/13/2023: I.474-493 Assignment due 8/20/2023: I.494-516 Assignment due 8/27/2023: I.517-536 Group: Poetry of Claudian (Claudian) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV Assignment due 7/30/2023: XXXVI, XXXVII Assignment due 8/6/2023: XXXVIII, XXXIX Assignment due 8/13/2023: XL Assignment due 8/20/2023: XLI Assignment due 8/27/2023: XLII, XLIII Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: 45 Et erit…glorificatus Assignment due 7/30/2023: 46 Et post…fatur Assignment due 8/6/2023: 46 Non est…judicium Assignment due 8/13/2023: 47 Huc usque…Aegypti? Assignment due 8/20/2023: 47 Et post…nescierunt Assignment due 8/27/2023: 48 Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: 1.15.22/23-23/4 (exitu) Assignment due 7/30/2023: 1.15.23/5-17 (liberior) Assignment due 8/6/2023: 1.15.23/18-31 (fere) Assignment due 8/13/2023: 1.15.23/31-24/11 (gravium) Assignment due 8/20/2023: 1.15.24/11-21 (tempora) Assignment due 8/27/2023: 1.15.24/22-25/8 (Christus) Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: II.1.54 Assignment due 7/30/2023: II.1.55 Assignment due 8/6/2023: II.1.56 Assignment due 8/13/2023: II.1.57 Assignment due 8/20/2023: II.1.58 Assignment due 8/27/2023: II.1.59 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: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: 5.51.7-9 Assignment due 7/30/2023: 5.51.10-13 Assignment due 8/6/2023: 5.52.1-3 Assignment due 8/13/2023: 5.52.4-6 Assignment due 8/20/2023: 5.52.7-9 Assignment due 8/27/2023: 5.52.10-12 Group: Seneca’s Apocolocntosis (Seneca Pumpkin) Text: posted, and http://thelatinlibrary.com/sen.html Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 5/7/2023: 15 (END of the Apocolocyntosis) Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid) Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Mid-year break from May 29 to July 23 Assignment due 7/23/2023: XI.1-19 Assignment due 7/30/2023: XI.20-43 Assignment due 8/6/2023: XI.44-60 Assignment due 8/13/2023: XI.61-84 Assignment due 8/20/2023: XI.85-105 Assignment due 8/27/2023: XI.106-126 Group: Vulgate (Vulgate) Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com> Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm Assignments Jun 7 Matthew 6:23-34 Jun 14 Matthew 7:1-10 Jun 21 Matthew 7:11-20 Jun 28 Matthew 7:21-29 Jul 5 No Assignment - Independence Day (US) Jul 12 Matthew 8:1-11 Jul 19 Matthew 8:12-22 Jul 26 Matthew 8:23-34 Aug 2 Matthew 9:1-10 Aug 9 Matthew 9:11-20 Aug 16 Matthew 9:21-30 Aug 23 Matthew 9:31-38 Aug 30 Matthew 10:1-10 Sep 6 No Assignment - Labor 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: Jun 7 De Civitate Dei 5.1c, from "Quod si dicuntur..." to the end Jun 14 De Civitate Dei 5.2a, "…cuius sit insolentiae." Jun 21 De Civitate Dei 5.2b, from, "Nos autem nouimus..." to the end. Jun 28 De Civitate Dei 5.3a, through "...illa rotatione finguntur." Jul 5 No Assignment - Independence Day (US) Jul 12 De Civitate Dei 5.3b, from "Nam si..." to the end. Jul 19 De Civitate Dei 5.4 Jul 26 De Civitate Dei 5.5a, through "... hora non datur." Aug 2 De Civitate Dei 5.5b, from "Si autem…" thru, "... moriatur?" Aug 9 De Civitate Dei 5.5c, from "Si conceptio…" thru, "...nascentium?" Aug 16 De Civitate Dei 5.5d, from "Vnde postremo..." to the end. Aug 23 De Civitate Dei 5.6a, through "...momenta conceptus." Aug 30 De Civitate Dei 5.6b, from "An forte quia..." to the end. Sep 6 No Assignment - Labor 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 Jun 7 De Doctrina Christiana 3.12.20 Jun 14 De Doctrina Christiana 3.13.21, 3.14.22a through "...videri." Jun 21 De Doctrina Christiana 3.14.21b, from "Qua varietate..." to end. Jun 28 De Doctrina Christiana 3.15.23, 3.16.24a, thru "...vulnerata sit." Jul 5 No Assignment - Independence Day (US) Jul 12 De Doctrina Christiana 3.16.24b, from "Ait Scriptura:" to the end. Jul 19 De Doctrina Christiana 3.17.25 Jul 26 De Doctrina Christiana 3.18.26 Aug 2 De Doctrina Christiana 3.18.27a, through "...est copulatus uxori." Aug 9 De Doctrina Christiana 3.18.27b, from "Ait enim:" through 3.19.28. Aug 16 De Doctrina Christiana 3.19.29 Aug 23 De Doctrina Christiana 3.20.29, 3.20.30 Aug 30 De Doctrina Christiana 3.21.30 Sep 6 No Assignment - Labor 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: 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: June 8 - cap. 32 TR ('A vacation'; 'Please ... don't') June 15 - cap. 33 EX 1-11 June 22 - cap. 33 EX 12-15 ; SA June 29 - cap. 33 TR ('B.Y.O.B.') Group: Loci (Loci Antiqui from Wheelock's Latin) Text: Wheelock's Latin, 7th ed. rev., ISBN 978-0061997228 Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Assignments: June 6 - #9. Autobiographical... (lines 13-20) June 13 - #10. Horace longs... (lines 1-6) June 20 - #10 Horace longs... (lines 7-11) June 27 - #11. Why no letters? (all) Group: Latin to GCSE, Part 2 (Cullen2) Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com> Text: Latin to GCSE Part 2 by H. Cullen and J. Taylor Comment: Introductory Latin Assignments: Jun 6 Assignment 115 11.19 Old Rome Lost ; Beyond 1.29 Jun 13 Assignment 116 11.20 Christians Blamed ( bye bye book 2); Beyond 1.30-1.31 Jun 20 Assignment 117 Beyond 1.32-1.33 Group: Latin to GCSE, Part 1 (Cullen Fast) Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com> Text: Latin to GCSE Part 1 by H. Cullen and J. Taylor Comment: Introductory Latin at a quicker pace Assignments: June 7 Assignment B10 Ex 6.2 61-69 June 14 Assignment B11 Ex 6.2 70-85 June 21 Assignment B12 6.3 Horatius and Mucius 1-17 (ending ..cedere in tutum coegit.) 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: June 6 - p. 257, 5-18 ("fortasse ..... frensit.) June 13 - p. 257, 19 to bott of page ("Girion ..... resonabat.) June 20 - p. 258, 1-15 ("sum ultimus ..... orbis auxilium?") June 27 - p. 258, 16 - 259, 2 (ut uides, ..... discedam.") 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 3 weeks Assignments: June 6 - cap. 23, re-read 1-40, ex. 1 ; 2 June 13 - cap. 23, 41-61, ex. 6 (1-6) June 20 - cap. 23, 62-83, ex. 6 (7-12) June 27 - cap. 23, re-read 41-83, ex. 4, 5 Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Slow) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Assignments: June 1 - cap. 45, 65-89; ex. 2 ; 3 (16-17) June 8 - cap. 45, 90-120; ex. 6 (1-7) June 15 - cap. 45, 121-147; ex. 4 (1-9) ; 6 (8-12) June 22 - cap. 45, 148-167; ex. 5 ; 6 (13-17) June 29 - cap. 45, 168-195; ex. 9 (1-8) Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Assignments: June 8 - cap. 50, 129-205, ex. 4 (1-10) June 15 - cap. 50, 206-275, ex. 4 (11-23) June 22 - cap. 50, 276-328, ex. 6 (1-8) June 29 - cap. 50, 329-383, ex. 6 (9-14) Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> June 8 - cap. 50, 129-205, ex. 4 (1-10) June 15 - cap. 50, 206-275, ex. 4 (11-23) June 22 - cap. 50, 276-328, ex. 6 (1-8) June 29 - cap. 50, 329-383, ex. 6 (9-14) ======================================== You are subscribed to the LatinStudy mailing list as lougheed at pobox dot com Post messages to LatinStudy at quasillum dot com Manage your subscription at http://lists.quasillum.com/mailman/options/latinstudy Report spam to latinstudy-owner at quasillum dot com