Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 19:03:47 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for October 2, 2023

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A new Wheelock Beginner Group has begun.  There's still lots of time to
catch up.  See below for "Wheelock Red".

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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:
     Oct 3 "The Three Friends," pp. 184-5, from "Ille vero" to the end.
     Oct 10 "Praise of Wine," p. 375.
     Oct 17 "The Young Alfred," pp. 185-6, to "saepissime vidimus."
     Oct 24 "Miraculum Sancti Nicholai," pp. 375-6, to line 34.

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Oct 2 7.1.8 - 7.1.9
     Oct 9 7.2.1-7
     Oct 16 7.2.8-12
     Oct 23 no assignment
     Oct 30 7.2.13-3.5
     Nov 6 7.3.6-4.1
     Nov 13 7.4.2-7

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Oct 2 22.17.5-18.3
     Oct 9 22.18.4-10
     Oct 16 22.19.1-6
     Oct 23 no assignment
     Oct 30 22.19.7-10
     Nov 6 22.19.11-20.3

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Oct 2 3.81-82(part)
     Oct 9 3.82(contd.)-83(part)
     Oct 16 3.83(contd.)-84(part)
     Oct 23 no assignment
     Oct 30 3.84(contd.)
     Nov 6 3.84(contd.)-85

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Oct 2 3.81-82(part)
     Oct 9 3.82(contd.)-83(part)
     Oct 16 3.83(contd.)-84(part)
     Oct 23 no assignment
     Oct 30 3.84(contd.)
     Nov 6 3.84(contd.)-85

Group: Valerius Maximus (MosMaiorum)
Text: posted, and www.thelatinlibrary.com
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     to start in mid-October

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 Messalinus:
             ll. 15-30: 2 October
             ll. 31-44: 9 October
             ll. 45-58: 16 October
             ll. 59-end: 23 October
         To Severus:
             ll. 1-14: 30 October

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:
         p. 29, ll. 460-472: 2 October
         p. 29, ll. 472-484: 9 October
         pp. 29-31, ll. 484-498: 16 October
         p. 29, ll. 498-end of Book I: 23 October
     Book II:
         p. 29, ll. 1-15: 30 October

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber XIV;
         XI Constantius summons Gallus and Executes him:
             sections 19-20: 2 October
             sections 21-22: 9 October
             sections 23-24: 16 October
             sections 25-26: 23 October
             sections 27-29: 30 October

Group: Seneca's Medea (Seneca Medea)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/octavia.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Act I:
         ll. 171-191: 2 October
         ll. 192-206: 9 October
         ll. 207-219: 16 October
         ll. 220-235: 23 October
         ll. 236-251: 30 October

Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber II:
         ll. 190-206: 2 October
         ll. 207-225: 9 October
         ll. 226-237: 16 October
         ll. 238-250: 23 October
         ll. 251-264: 30 October

Group: Martial's Epigrams (Martial)
Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/martial/mart.spec.shtml
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber V:
         Epigram 44: 2 October
         Epigrams 45-46: 9 October
         Epigrams 47-48: 16 October
         Epigram 49: 23 October
         Epigram 50: 30 October

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 XXXIII To Bononia:
         p. 185, ll. 1-14: 2 October
         p. 185, ll. 15-23: 9 October
         p. 187, ll. 24-39: 16 October
         p. 187-188, ll. 40-53: 23 October
         p. 188, ll. 54-67: 30 October

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber VII:
         Story 1, sections 5-8: 2 October
             sections 9-end: 9 October
         Story 2 (On Fate): sections 1-5: 16 October
             sections 6-11: 23 October

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Pertinax):
         section 12: 2 October
         section 13: 9 October
         section 14: 16 October
         section 15: 23 October
     SHA (Didius Julianus):
         section 1: 30 October

Group: Campio's Gunpowder Plot (Campion Gunpowder)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignment<s:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: I.486-505
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: I.506-530
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: I.531-552

Assignment due 10/29/2023: I.553-578

Group: Dobson's Paradise Lost (Dobson Paradisus Amissus)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: II.18 (Pars vitreos)-19 (ripas)
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: II.19 (Pulveremque)-20 (arundo)
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: II.20 (Parte alia)-21 (recessus)
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: II.21 (Sed pluviis)-22 (tenebras)

Group: Petrarch's Africa (Petrarch Africa)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     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:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: L, LI
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: LII:1-24
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: LII:25-41
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: LII:42-59

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: 53: Sed et…abominati sunt
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: 53: Qui Amos…nos mala
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: 54
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: 55

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: 1.18.27/5-22 (voveant)
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: 1.18.27/22-28/8 (reditu)
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: 1.18.28/8-22 (pollicita)
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: 1.18.28/22-31 (dimisit)

  Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: II.1.65
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: II.1.66
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: II.1.67
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: II.1.68

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:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: 6.54.1-3
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: 6.54.4-7
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: 6.55.1-3
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: 6.55.4-6

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 10/8/2023: XI.221-237
     Assignment due 10/15/2023: XI.238-256
     Assignment due 10/22/2023: XI.257-273
     Assignment due 10/29/2023: XI.274-290

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments
     Oct 4 Matthew 11:1-10
     Oct 11 Matthew 11:11-20
     Oct 18 Matthew 11:21-30
     Oct 25 Matthew 12:1-10
     Nov 1 Matthew 12:11-21
     Nov 8 Matthew 12:22-30
     Nov 15 Matthew 12:31-40
     Nov 22 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Nov 29 Matthew 12:41-50
     Dec 6 Matthew 13:1-10
     Dec 13 Matthew 13:11-20
     Dec 20 Matthew 13:21-30
     Dec 27 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:
     Oct 4 De Civitate Dei 5.8a, through, "...nolentem trahunt."
     Oct 11 De Civitate Dei 5.8b, from "Nempe euidentissime..." to the end.
     Oct 18 De Civitate Dei 5.9a, through "...ex sua persona."
     Oct 25 De Civitate Dei 5.9b,
         from "Vidit enim quam…" through "...fieri contenderent."
     Nov 1 De Civitate Dei 5.9c,
         from "Quid est ergo…" through "...praescientiam futurorum."
     Nov 8 De Civitate Dei  5.9d,
         from "Ipse itaque…" through "...omnium futurorum."
     Nov 15 De Civitate Dei 5.9e,
         from "Nos aduersus…" through "...nolumus inclinari."
     Nov 22 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Nov 29 De Civitate Dei 5.9f,
         from "Non est autem…" through "...conditorque naturae."
     Dec 6 De Civitate Dei 5.9g,
         from "Iam uero causae…" through "...quibusdam non tribuit."
     Dec 13 De Civitate Dei 5.9h,
         from "Sicut enim…" through "...nostrae uolutnates?"
     Dec 20 De Civitate Dei 5.9i, from "Contendat ergo..." to the end.
     Dec 27 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
     Oct 4 De Doctrina Christiana 3.24.34, 3.25.34, 3.25.35
     Oct 11 De Doctrina Christiana 3.25.36a, through "Sic et alia plurima."
     Oct 18 De Doctrina Christiana 3.25.36b, from "Et haec quidem…" to end.
     Oct 25 De Doctrina Christiana 3.25.37, 3.26.37
     Nov 1 De Doctrina Christiana 3.27.38
     Nov 8 De Doctrina Christiana 3.28.39 and 3.29.40a,
         through "...cognitione disserui."
     Nov 15 De Doctrina Christiana 3.28.40b, from "Nam litterae," to end.
     Nov 22 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Nov 29 De Doctrina Christiana 3.29.41
     Dec 6 De Doctrina Christiana 3.30.42a, through "...divinorum eloquiorum."
     Dec 13 De Doctrina Christiana 3.30.42b, from "Nec tamen omnia…" to end.
     Dec 20 De Doctrina Christiana 3.30.43a, through "...ab errore defendatur."
     Dec 27 No Assignment - Christmas

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: 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:
     Oct 3  Assignment 127 Ex 2.8-2.9; Ritchie 17
     Oct 10 Assignment 128 Ex 2.10-2.12 "Romulus"

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:
     Oct 5   Assignment B24 Ex 6.5 31-40
     Oct 12  Assignment B25 Ex 6.5 41-end and the end of the book

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:
     Oct 5 - cap. 1, sententiae 16-20 ; translation
     Oct 12 - cap. 2, SA 1-15
     Oct 19 - cap. 2, SA 16-20; translation
     Oct 26 - cap. 3, EX
     Nov 2 - cap.  3, SA ; TR

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:
     Oct 5 - cap. 36 TR ('The quality'; 'I don't'; 'Oh,'; 'I love')
     Oct 12 - cap. 36 TR ('Who is'; 'Testimony')

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:
     Oct 3 - #1. A Dedication
     Oct 10 - #2. How many kisses?
     Oct 17 - #3. Death of a pet sparrow
     Oct 24 - #4. Frater ave, atque vale
     Oct 31 - #5. Vitriolic ... (lines 1-8)
     Nov 7 - #5. Vitriolic ... (lines 9-17)

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:
     Oct 3 - p. 265, 3rd line fr bott to 266, 12
         (ut iam ..... reliquas reliquerant.)
     Oct 10 - p. 266, 13-24
         (itaque, dum ..... sed ingressus nullus.)
     Oct 17 - p. 266, 24 - 267, 2
         (a scalis ingressi ..... remiserunt.)
     Oct 24 - p. 267, 3-15
         (uenit nox ..... uiderent.)
     Oct 31 - p. 267, 16 to 4th line fr bott
         (dum digitis ..... capiebant.)

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
     Oct 3 - cap. 25, 1-27, ex. 2 (1-9)
     Oct 10 - cap. 25, 28-41, ex. 1 ; 2 (10-14)
     Oct 17 - cap. 25, 42-62, ex. 5 (1-9)
     Oct 10 - cap. 25, 28-41, ex. 1 ; 2 (10-14)
     Oct 17 - cap. 25, 42-62, ex. 5 (1-9)
     Oct 24 - cap. 25, 63-88, ex. 3 ; 4 ; 5 (10-13)
     Oct 31 - cap. 25, 89-115, ex. 9 (1-6)
     Nov 7 - cap. 25, 116-131, ex. 6 ; 8 ; 10 (3-6)
     Nov 14 - cap. 25, 132-144, ex. 7 ; 9 (7-14); 11

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Oct 5 - cap. 51, 280-326, ex. 8
     Oct 12 - cap. 52, 1-59, ex. 2 (1-9)
     Oct 19 - cap. 52, 60-123, ex. 2 (10-16)
     Oct 26 - cap. 52, 124-185, ex. 4 (1-11)
     Nov 2 - cap. 52, 186-241, ex. 4 (12-17)
     Nov 9 - cap. 52, 242-294, ex. 6 (1-8)
     Nov 16 - cap. 52, 295-354, ex. 6 (9-17)

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
     Oct 3 - cap. 44, 159-191; ex. 8 (1-6)
     Oct 10 - cap. 44, 192-223; ex. 6 ; 8 (7-12)
     Oct 17 - cap. 44, 224-246; ex. 7 ; 8 (13-16)
     Oct 24 - cap. 44, 247-277; ex. 11 (1-6)
     Oct 31 - cap. 44, 278-306; ex. 9 ; 11 (7-11)
     Nov 7 - cap. 44, 307-333; ex. 10 ; 11 (12-15)
     Nov 14 - cap. 44, 334-357; ex. 14 ; 15 (1-8)

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