Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 20:50:11 -0800
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for December 2, 2024

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Group Listings:

Group: Plautus (Plautus)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: A Plautus Reader: Selections from Eleven Plays" by John Henderson
Assignments:
     Dec 2 4D Rudens 1019-1044
     Dec 9 4E Amphitruo 361-386
     Dec 16 4E Amphitruo 387-415
     Dec 23, 30 no assignment

Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin
Assignments:
     Dec 3, "The Founding of Conca and the siege Barcelona,"
         p. 327, lines 65-88.
     Dec 10, A Burial Service, pp. 208-9, to "Et cum spiritu tuo."
     Dec 17, "The Founding of Conca and the siege of Barcelona,"
         pp. 327-8, lines 89-110.
     Dec 24, 31 no assignment.
     Jan 7, A Burial Service, pp. 209-10, to "opera manuum hominum."

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Dec 2 7.26.9-15
     Dec 9 7.27.1-6
     Dec 16 7.27.7-28.3
     Dec 23, 30 no assignment

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Dec 2 22.45.1-7
     Dec 9 22.45.8-46.6
     Dec 16 22.46.7-47.5
     Dec 23, 30 no assignment

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Dec 2 4.42(part)
     Dec 9 4.42(contd.)
     Dec 16 4.43
     Dec 23, 30 no assignment

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Dec 2 7.81-2
     Dec 9 7.83-4
     Dec 16 7.85-6
     Dec 23, 30 no assignment

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 Cotta:
             ll. 1-15: 2 December
             ll. 16-26: 9 December
             ll. 27-42: 16 December
             no assignment: 23 & 30 December (winter holiday)

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. 61, ll. 244-255: 2 December
	p. 61, ll. 256-266: 9 December
	pp. 61-63, ll. 266-277: 16 December
	no assignments: 23&30 December (winter holidays)

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
      Liber XV:
          VII Rebellion in the City:
	     Sections: 9-10: 2 December
	 VIII Julian !!!:
              Section 1: 9 December
	     Section 2: 16 December
	     no assignments: 23&30 December (Winter holiday)

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:
     Act I (the Shade of Thyestes):
         ll. 1-21: 9 December
	ll.  22-39: 16 December
	no assignment: 23&30 December (winter holiday)

Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
      Georgics III:
          ll. 440-456: 2 December
	 ll. 357-469: 9 December
	 ll. 470-485: 16 December
	 no assignment: 23&30 December winter holiday

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 XXXVIII; At Mediolanum:
         pp. 217, ll. 65-78: 2 December
	pp. 218-220, ll. 79-92: 9 December
	p. 220, ll. 93-108: 16 December
	no assignments: 23 & 30 December (winter holiday)

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber IX:
         Story 14 Quadratus again on word usage:
	    sections 1-7: 2 December
	    sections 8-18: 9 December
	    sections 19-end: 16 December
	    no assignment:23&30 December -- winter holiday

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Clodius Albinus):
  	section 5: 2 December
	section 6: 9 December
	section 7: 16 December
	no assignments:23&30 December (Winter holiday)

Group: Claudian’s Carmina minora (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: Epithalamium 213-227
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: Epithalamium 228-250
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: Epithalamium 251-271a
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: Epithalamium 271b-294
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: Epithalamium 295-305a

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: 83 (inardescat admittitis)
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: 84
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: 85 (non audiam)
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: 85 (non invenient)
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: 86 (in olla)

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: 1.53/9-24
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: 1.53/24-54/8
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: 1.54/9-27
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: 1.54/27-55/18
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: 1.55/19-30

Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: II.1.117
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: II.1.118
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: II.1.119
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: II.1.120
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: II.1.121

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:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: 7.66.4-6
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: 7.66.7-9
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: 7.66.10-12
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: 7.66.13-15
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: 7.66.16-18

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 12/1/2024: XII.482-503
     Assignment due 12/8/2024: XII.504-526
     Assignment due 12/15/2024: XII.527-548
     Assignment due 12/22/2024: XII.549-568
     BREAK UNTIL 1/19/2024: XII.569-591

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Dec 4 Matthew 25:37-46
     Dec 11 Matthew 26:1-11
     Dec 18 Matthew 26:12-22
     Dec 25 No Assignment - Christmas

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:
     Dec 4 De Civitate Dei 5.23a, through "...religio non sinebat?"
     Dec 11 De Civitate Dei 5.23b, from "Nam propinquante... to the end.
     Dec 18 De Civitate Dei 5.24
     Dec 25 No Assignment - Christmas

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
     Dec 4 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.12a, through, "...cum sitis sapientes."
     Dec 11 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.12b,
         from "Toleratis enim si..." through "...una minus accepi."
     Dec 18 De Doctrina Christiana 4.7.12c, from "Ter virgis…" to the end.
     Dec 25 No Assignment - Christmas

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:
     Dec 5 Assignment 175  Ex 5.5 ; Ex 4.35
     Dec 12  Assignment 176  Ex 5.6 ; Ex 4.36
     Dec 19 Assignment 177 Ex 5.7 ; Ex 4.37
     Break
     Jan 9 Assignment 178 Ex 5.8 ; Ex 4.38

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:
     Dec 5 - cap. 19, TR
     Dec 12 - cap. 20, EX
     Dec 19 - cap. 20, SA
     Dec 26 - no assignment
     Jan 2 - no assignment
     Jan 9 - cap. 20, TR
     Jan 16 - cap. 21, EX
     Jan 23 - cap. 21, SA
     Jan 30 - cap. 21, TR
     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:
     Dec 3 - 21. Timoleon (lines 8-16)
     Dec 10 - 21. Timoleon (lines 17-23)
     Dec 17 thru Dec 31 - no assignment
     Jan 7 - 21. Timoleon (lines 24-end)
     Jan 14 - 22. Carpe Diem
     Jan 21 - 23. Integer Vitae
     Jan 28 - 24. Aurea Mediocritas
     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:
     Dec 5 - #31. 8th labor: horses... (2nd paragraph)
     Dec 12 - #32. 9th labor: girdle of Hippolyte
     Dec 19 - #33. Girdle refused
     Dec 26 - no assignment
     Jan 2 - no assignment
     Jan 9 - #34. The battle
     Jan 16 - #35. Defeat of Amazons
     Jan 23 - #36. Laomedon & sea monster
     Jan 30 - #37. Rescue of Hesione
     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:
     Dec 3 - p. 290, 3rd line fr. bott. to 291, 10
         (qui non longe ..... Bilbo circumspectauit.)
     Dec 10 - p. 291, 11 to end
         (tum magnum clamorem ..... cognosceret.)
     Dec 17 thru Dec 31 - no assignment
     Jan 7 - p. 292, "0"-14
         (CAPVT 18 ..... uisus est.)
     Jan 14 - p. 292, 15 - 293, 11
         ("uictoria ..... ualde uulneratus?")
     Jan 21 - p. 293, 11-25
         ("puto ..... tabernaculum tulit.)
     Jan 28 - p. 293, 25 - 294, 8
         ("salue! ..... Baggins meret.")
     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
     Dec 3 - cap. 30; ex. 8
     Dec 10 - cap. 31, 1-26, ex. 3 (1-6)
     Dec 17 - cap. 31, 27-45, ex. 1 ; 3 (7-11)
     Dec 24 and Dec 31 - no assignments
     Jan 7 - cap. 31, 46-58, ex. 2 ; 3 (12-13)
     Jan 14 - cap. 31, 59-87, ex. 6 (1-5)
     Jan 21 - cap. 31, 88-106, ex. 4 ; 6 (6-9)
     Jan 28 - cap. 31, 107-131, ex. 5 ; 6 (10-11)
     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>
     Dec 3 - cap. 47, 166-206; ex. 4 ; 5 (11-17)
     Dec 10 - cap. 48, 1-32; ex. 2 (1-6)
     Dec 17 thru Dec 31 - no assignment
     Jan 7 - cap. 48, 33-71; ex. 2 (7-12)
     Jan 14 - cap. 48, 72-90; ex. 1, 2 (13-15)
     Jan 21 - cap. 48, 91-123; ex. 4 (1-9)
     Jan 28 - cap. 48, 124-161; ex. 4 (10-12)
     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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