Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 20:38:02 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for August 2, 2026

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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:
     Aug 3 A letter of Peter of Blois, pp. 253-4, to the end.
     Aug 10 “Item de Apparitionibus”, pp. 254-5, to “animosus efficitur."
     Aug 17 “Item de Apparitionibus”, pp. 255-6 to “tua prevenies."
     Aug 24 “Item de Apparitionibus”, p. 256, to “revocare potuit."
     Aug 31 “Item de Apparitionibus”, pp. 256-7, to the end.

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Aug 3 8.14.2-8
     Aug 10 8.14.9-15.2
     Aug 17 8.15.3-8
     Aug 24 8.15.9-16.6
     Aug 31 8.16.7-12

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Aug 3 23.17.9-12
     Aug 10 23.18.1-5
     Aug 17 23.18.6-9
     Aug 24 23.18.10-16
     Aug 31 23.19.1-8

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Aug 3 5.11(contd.)
     Aug 10 5.12
     Aug 17 5.13
     Aug 24 5.14
     Aug 31 5.15

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Aug 3 9.11-12, 14
     Aug 10 9.15-17
     Aug 17 9.18, 20
     Aug 24 9.23-24, 26
     Aug 31 9.29-30

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 III:
         Letter VIII: To Fabius Maximus:
              ll. 1-14: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

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:
     Liber V:
         p. 99: ll. 194-206: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XVI:
         Section 12: Julian attacks the Alamanni:
             16-17: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Seneca (Phaedra)
Text: posted, https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/sen.phaedra.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     starting in June
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber XI
         Story X: Gaius Gracchus: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Heliogabalus)
         section 12: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Ovid's Fasti (Fasti)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber I:
         Agonal ll. 325-342: 25 May
     On hiatus until further notice.

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     8/3/2026: 2.23.92/11-93/4 (euentus)
     8/10/2026: 2.23.93/4 (Nunc)-93/25
     8/17/2026: 2.23.93/26-94/17
     8/24/2026: 2.23.94/18-95/10
     8/31/2026: 2.23.95/11-22 (rex)
     9/7/2026: 2.23.95/22 (At)-96/10
     9/14/2026: 2.24.96/11-27 (militis)
     9/21/2026: 2.24.96/27 (Insurgunt)-97/14
     9/28/2026: 2.25.97/15-98/2 (obprobrium)
     10/5/2026: 2.25.98/2 (Enuclea)-17 (aduertit)
     10/12/2026: 2.25.98/17 (Prima)-31
     10/19/2026: 2.26.99/1-23
     10/26/2026: 2.27.99/24-100/5 (supersint)
     11/2/2026: 2.27.100/5 (episcopus)-17
     11/9/2026: 2.28.100/18-28
     11/16/2026: 2.29.101/1-19
     11/23/2026: 2.30.101/20-102/7
     11/30/2026: 2.31.102/8-16 (ignobili)
     12/7/2026: 2.31.102/17 (Filius)-26
     12/14/2026: 2.32.103/1-7 [End of the Second Distinction]
     BREAK until 2/1/2027

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:
     8/3/2026: 9.76.1-3
     8/10/2026: 9.76.4-6
     8/17/2026: 9.76.7-9
     8/24/2026: 9.76.10-12
     8/31/2026: 9.76.13-15
     9/7/2026: 9.76.16-18
     9/14/2026: 9.76.19-21
     9/21/2026: 9.76.22-24
     9/28/2026: 9.76.25-27
     10/5/2026: 9.76.28-30
     10/12/2026: 9.76.31-33
     10/19/2026: 9.76.32-35
     10/26/2026: 9.77.1-3
     11/2/2026: 9.77.4-6
     11/9/2026: 9.77.7-9
     11/16/2026: 9.77.10-12
     11/23/2026: 9.77.13-15
     11/30/2026: 9.77.16-18
     12/7/2026: 9.77.19-20
     12/14/2026: 9.78.1-3
     12/21/2026: 9.78.4-6
     BREAK until 2/1/2027 9.78.7-9

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     8/3/2026: XIV.341-354
     8/10/2026: XIV.355-371
     8/17/2026: XIV.372-385
     8/24/2026: XIV.386-396
     8/31/2026: XIV.397-415
     9/7/2026: XIV.416-434
     9/14/2026: XIV.435-453
     9/21/2026: XIV.454-474
     9/28/2026: XIV.475-495
     10/5/2026: XIV.496-511
     10/12/2026: XIV.512-526
     10/19/2026: XIV.527-548
     10/26/2026: XIV.549-565
     11/2/2026: XIV.566-580
     11/9/2026: XIV.581-595
     11/16/2026: XIV.596-608
     11/23/2026: XIV.609-621
     11/30/2026: XIV.622-639
     12/7/2026: XIV.640-653
     12/14/2026: XIV.654-671
     12/21/2026: XIV.672-697
     BREAK until 2/1/2027 XIV.698-717

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Aug 5 Jeremiah 17:1-13
     Aug 12 Jeremiah 17:14-27
     Aug 19 Jeremiah 18:1-11
     Aug 26 Jeremiah 18:12-23
     Sep 2 Jeremiah 19
     Sep 9 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:
     Aug 5 De Civitate Dei 7.7b, from "Nonne istum bifrontem..." to end.
     Aug 12 De Civitate Dei 7.8a, through "...Ianus non habet?"
     Aug 19 De Civitate Dei 7.8b, from "Cum uero eum..." to the end.
     Aug 26 De Civitate Dei 7.9a, through "...factis initiisue factorum."
     Sep 2 De Civitate Dei 7.9b,
         from "Semper enim..." through, "...non habentem.
     Sep 9 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
     Aug 5 De Doctrina Christiana 4.24.53b,
         from "Non tamen egisse..." to the end.
     Aug 12 De Doctrina Christiana 4.24.54
     Aug 19 De Doctrina Christiana 4.25.55a,
         through "...ornateque se dicere.
     Aug 26 De Doctrina Christiana 4.25.55b,
         from "Quo fine..." to the end.
     Sep 2 De Doctrina Christiana 4.26.56a,
         through "...oboedienter audiri?"
     Sep 9 No Assignment - Labor Day (US)

Group: Wheelock Beginners (Wheelock Blue)
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:
     Aug 4 - cap. 12 SA
     Aug 11 - cap. 12 TR
     Aug 18 - cap. 13 EX
     Aug 25 - cap. 13 SA

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:
     Aug 6 - cap. 40, SA
     Aug 13 - cap. 40, TR ('Jupiter...' only)
     Aug 20 - cap. 40, TR ('The Value' ; 'A Monument')  FINIS!

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Aug 4 - cap. 51, 59-91, ex. 2 (10-13)
     Aug 11 - cap. 51, 92-118, ex. 1, 2 (14-16)
     Aug 18 - cap. 51, 119-149, ex. 4 (1-3)
     Aug 25 - cap. 51, 150-185, ex. 4 (4-8)

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Romana Aeterna)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Exercitia Latina II
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Aug 4 - cap. 37, 218-240: ex. 10; 11 (5-6)
     Aug 11 - cap. 37, 241-262: ex 11 (7-11)
     Aug 18 - cap. 37, 262-288: ex. 11 (12-16)
     Aug 25 - cap. 37, re-read 181-285: ex. 9

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