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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


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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:
     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)


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