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From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:22:58 -0700 Subject: Latin Activities: Update for April 1, 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: Apr 4 "A Dialogue," pp. 171-2, from "Magister, timeo..." to "Faciam ut vis." Apr 11 "Dies Irae," pp. 362-3, lines 1-30. Apr 18 "A Dialogue," pp. 172-3, from "Quidam ignotus mecum..." to end. Apr 25 "Dies Irae," p. 363, lines 31-58. Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted Assignments: Apr 3 6.33.9-12 Apr 10 6.34.1-5 Apr 17 6.34.6-10 Apr 24 6.34.11-35.5 Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted Assignments: Apr 3 22.4.4-7 Apr 10 22.5.1-5 Apr 17 22.5.6-6.1 Apr 24 22.6.2-6(part) Group: Suetonius (Suetonius) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suet.html and posted Assignments: Apr 3 Domitian 9.2-3 Apr 10 Domitian 10.1-2 Apr 17 Domitian 10.3-4 Apr 24 Domitian 10.5-11.1 Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted Assignments: Apr 3 3.57 Apr 10 3.58(part) Apr 17 3.58(contd.)-59(part) Apr 24 3.59(contd.)-60(part) Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr) Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com> Text: posted Assignments: Apr 3 4.11, 23 Apr 10 4.66-7 Apr 17 4.75-6 Apr 24 4.77, 88 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 Maximus: ll. 95-112: 3 April ll. 113-128: 10 April ll. 129-end: 17 April To Rufinus: ll. 1-16: 24 April 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. 11, ll. 122-136: 3 April pp. 11-13, ll. 137-150: 10 April p. 13, ll. 151-175: 17 April pp. 13-15, ll. 176-190: 24 April Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber XIV; VII. Gallus' Savagery: sections 13-15: 3 April sections 16-17: 10 April sections 18-19: 17 April sections 20-21: 24 April Group: Seneca's Octavia (Seneca Octavia) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sen/octavia.shtml Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: ll. 846-860: 3 April ll. 861-876: 10 April ll. 877-898: 17 April ll. 899-916: 24 April Group: Georgics (Vergil) Text: posted, http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber I: ll. 328-343: 3 April ll. 344-359: 10 April ll. 360-377: 17 April ll. 378-392: 24 April 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 13: 3 April epigrams 14&15: 10 April epigram 16: 17 April epigrams 17&18: 24 April 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 XXX To a Certain Villa: pp. 169-170, ll. 16-33: 3 April p. 170, ll. 34-46: 10 April pp. 170-171, ll. 47-62: 17 April pp. 171-173, ll. 63-78: 24 April 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 55: 3 April section 56: 10 April section 57: 17 April section 58: 24 April Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights) Text: posted Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: Liber VII: Story 6 Aristotle on the innate lack of certain senses: 3 April Story 7 How to pronounce a certain word: sections 1-5: 10 April sections 6-end: 17 April Story 8 A boy and his dolphin: 24 Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA) Text: posted Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net> Assignments: SHA (Commodus) section 8: 3 April section 9: 10 April section 10: 17 April section 11: 24 April Group: Campio's Gunpowder Plot (Campion Gunpowder) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: I.210-223 Assignment due 4/9/2023: I.224-239 Assignment due 4/16/2023: I.240-251 Assignment due 4/23/2023: I.252-269 Assignment due 4/30/2023: I.270-291 Group: Dobson's Paradise Lost (Dobson Paradisus Amissus) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: I.277 (Nos arma)-278 (feretur) Assignment due 4/9/2023: I.278 (consedit)-278 (acuta) Assignment due 4/16/2023: I.278 (ingruit hinc)-279 (artificemque salutis) Assignment due 4/23/2023: I.279 (Cui Satanas)-280 (spectacula luci?) Assignment due 4/30/2023: I.280 (scilicet obscuris)-281 (nil vincere non est) Group: Petrarch's Africa (Petrarch Africa) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: I.221b-240 Assignment due 4/9/2023: I.241-261 Assignment due 4/16/2023: I.262-284 Assignment due 4/23/2023: I.285-305a Assignment due 4/30/2023: I.305b-325a Group: Poetry of Claudian (Claudian) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: XXX. 140-159a Assignment due 4/9/2023: XXX. 159b-176 Assignment due 4/16/2023: XXX. 177-196a Assignment due 4/23/2023: XXX. 196b-216 Assignment due 4/30/2023: XXX. 217-236 Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: 41 Sic dicit...derelinquet vos Assignment due 4/9/2023: 42 Quid de auctore...est mihi Assignment due 4/16/2023: 42 Itemque denunciat...devorabit vos Assignment due 4/23/2023: 43 Accipite veracem...aestuatis Assignment due 4/30/2023: 43 Cithara...extenta Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: 1.12.17/29-18/11 (modernitas) Assignment due 4/9/2023: 1.12.18/11-19/2 Assignment due 4/16/2023: The story of Guiscard, a monk of Cluny: 1.13.19/4-16 Assignment due 4/23/2023: On another monk of Cluny: 1.14.19/17-20/5 (fuga) Assignment due 4/30/2023: 1.14.20/5-16 (refugit) Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem) Text: posted Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com> Assignments: Assignment due 4/2/2023: II.1.45 Assignment due 4/9/2023: II.1.46 Assignment due 4/16/2023: II.1.47 Assignment due 4/23/2023: II.1.48 Assignment due 4/30/2023: II.1.49 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 4/2/2023: 5.49.1-3 Assignment due 4/9/2023: 5.49.4-6 Assignment due 4/16/2023: 5.49.7-10 Assignment due 4/23/2023: 5.49.11-12 Assignment due 4/30/2023: 5.50.1-3 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 4/2/2023: 12 (to end) Assignment due 4/9/2023: 13 (to veniet) Assignment due 4/16/2023: 13 (to end) Assignment due 4/23/2023: 14 (to factum est) Assignment due 4/30/2023: (to end) 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: Assignment due 4/2/2023: X.567-587 Assignment due 4/9/2023: X.588-608 Assignment due 4/16/2023: X.609-622 Assignment due 4/23/2023: X.623-635 Assignment due 4/30/2023: X.636-655 Group: Vulgate (Vulgate) Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com> Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm Assignments Apr 5 No Assignment - Easter Apr 12 Matthew 5:1-10 Apr 19 Matthew 5:11-20 Apr 26 Matthew 5:21-30 May 3 Matthew 5:31-40 May 10 Matthew 5:41-48 May 17 Matthew 6:1-13 May 24 Matthew 6:14-22 May 31 No Assignment - Memorial 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: Apr 5 No Assignment - Easter Apr 12 De Civitate Dei 4.32 Apr 19 De Civitate Dei 4.33 Apr 26 De Civitate Dei 4.34a, through "...Nymphas Lymphasque coluerunt." May 3 De Civitate Dei 4.34b from "Sine insanis sacris Martis…" to the end. End of Book IV! May 10 De Civitate Dei 5.0 May 17 De Civitate Dei 5.1a, through, "...uolunt esse cultores." May 24 De Civitate Dei 5.1b, from "Haec enim opinio…" through, "...uoluntate sentire?" May 31 No Assignment - Memorial 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 Apr 5 No Assignment - Easter Apr 12 De Doctrina Christiana 3.10.15 Apr 19 De Doctrina Christiana 3.10.16 Apr 26 De Doctrina Christiana 3.11.17a, through, "...primum et Graeci. " May 3 De Doctrina Christiana 3.11.17b, from "Sed hoc ad eos..." to end. May 10 De Doctrina Christiana 3.12.18a, through, "... in culpa est." May 17 De Doctrina Christiana 3.12.18b, from "Neque ullo modo..." to end. May 24 De Doctrina Christiana 3.12.19 May 31 No Assignment - Memorial 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 Assignments: Apr 6 - no assignment Apr 13 - cap. 31 EX 1-12 Apr 20 - cap. 31 EX 13-16 ; SA Apr 27 - cap. 31 TR May 4 - cap. 32 EX May 11 - cap. 32 SA May 18 - cap. 32 TR May 25 - no assignment 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: Apr 4 - #7. Cicero on war (lines 1-9) Apr 18 - no assignment Apr 25 - #7. Cicero on war (lines 9-16) May 2 - #8. Hannibal... (lines 10-18) 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: April 4 & 11: no assignments Apr 18 Assignment 108 11.12 Matricide Averted ; Beyond 1.15-1.16 Apr 25 Assignment 109 11.13 Nero thinks again ; Beyond 1.17-1.18 May 2 Assignment 110 11.14 Murder of Agrippina ; Beyond 1.19-1.20 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: Apr 6 & 13: no assignments Apr 20 Assignment B3 Ex 6.1 34-54 ending "Thrasybulo et Theramene." Apr 27 Assignment B4 Ex 6.1 55-62 to "Athenas venerunt." May 4 Assignment B5 Ex 6.1 63-end May 11 Assignment B6 Ex 6.2 1-14 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: Apr 4 - p. 253, 25 - 254, 11 (qui inter ..... iuberet.) Apr 11 - no assignment Apr 18 - p. 254, 12 to end of section (ignis e ..... ei nocuit.) Apr 25 - p. 254, 4th line fr bott. - 255, 11 (iam homines ..... gauisus est.) May 2 - p. 255, 12-25 (sed adhuc ..... Conuallis fuit.) 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: Apr 4 - cap. 22, 40-55, ex. 2 ; 3 (13-16) Apr 11 - no assignment Apr 18 - cap. 22, 56-77, ex. 4 ; 7 (1-7) Apr 25 - cap. 22, 78-102, ex. 7 (8-10) May 2 - cap. 22, 103-121, ex. 6 ; 7 (11-12) Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Slow) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Assignments: Apr 6 - no assignment Apr 13 - cap. 44, 382-406; ex. 12 ; 15 (13-15) Apr 20 - cap. 44, 407-426; ex. 18 (1-5) Apr 27 - cap. 44, 427-451; ex. 16 ; 18 (6-12) May 4 - cap. 44, 452-473; ex. 17 ; 18 (13) Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Assignments: Apr 6 - no assignment Apr 13 - cap. 49, 1-54, ex. 2 (1-6) Apr 20 - cap. 49, 55-101, ex. 2 (7-14) Apr 27 - cap. 49, 102-162, ex. 4 (1-13) May 4 - cap. 49, 163-226, ex. 4 (14-17) ; 6 (1-8) Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2) Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com> Apr 4 - cap. 42, 325-353, ex. 12, 13 (13-16) Apr 11 - no assignment Apr 18 - cap. 42, 354-377, ex. 15, 16 (1-7) Apr 25 - cap. 42, 378-393, ex. 14, 16 (7-11) May 2 - cap 43, 1-28, ex. 3 (1-7) ======================================== 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