Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2026 16:12:27 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for March 9, 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:
     Mar 9 The Devil in a Monastery, pp. 238-9,
         to "vino defluente, vacuatam."
     Mar 16 The Devil in a Monastery, pp. 239-40,
         to "singultus creberrimos emittens."
     Mar 23 The Devil in a Monastery, p. 240, to end.
     Mar 30 De Muliere Malefica, pp. 240-1,
         to "contra saevissimos hostes.”

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Mar 9 23.9.4-9
     Mar 16 23.9.10-10.3
     Mar 23 23.10.4-9
     Mar 30 23.10.10-11.1

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Mar 9 23.9.4-9
     Mar 16 23.9.10-10.3
     Mar 23 23.10.4-9
     Mar 30 23.10.10-11.1

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Mar 9 4.79
     Mar 16 4.80
     Mar 23 4.81
     Mar 30 4.82-83(part)

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Mar 9 8.75, 78
     Mar 16 8.80-2
     Mar 23 8.89-90
     Mar 30 8.95-6

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 V to Cotta:
         ll. 33-46: 9 March
         ll. 47-end: 16 March

     Letter VI: To a friend:
         ll. 1-14: 23 March
         ll. 15-30: 30 March

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. 95, ll. 89-97: 9 March
         p. 95, ll. 98-108: 16 March
         p. 95: ll. 109-121:23 March
         pp. 95-97: ll. 122-130: 30 March

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XVI:
         Section 11: Julian on the attack:
             12-13: 9 March
             14-15: 16 March
         Section 12: Julian attacks the Alamanni:
             1-2: 23 March
             3-5: 30 March

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:
     ll. 897-909: 9 March
     ll. 910-924: 16 March
     ll. 925-941: 23 March
     ll. 942-952: 30 March

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Story III: uses of 'pro':
           All: 9 March
     Story IV: Ennius vs. Euripides:
           All: 16 March
     Story V: Different types of Philosophy (our friend Favorinus returns):
          1-5: 23 March
          6-end: 30 March

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Heliogabalus)
         section 3: 9 March
         section 4: 16 March
         section 5: 23 March
         section 6: 30 March

Group: Ovid's Fasti (Fasti)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber I:
         ll. 181-194: 9 March
         ll. 195-208: 16 March
         ll. 209-226: 23 March
         ll. 227-246: 30 March

Group: Claudian (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     3/9/2026: In Eutropium II: 296-316a
     3/16/2026: In Eutropium II: 316b-334
     3/23/2026: In Eutropium II: 335-353
     3/30/2026: In Eutropium II: 354-375
     4/6/2026: In Eutropium II: 376-390
     4/13/2026: In Eutropium II: 391-408
     4/20/2026: In Eutropium II: 409-422
     4/27/2026: In Eutropium II: 423-439
     5/4/2026: In Eutropium II: 440-459
     5/11/2026: In Eutropium II: 460-484
     5/18/2026: In Eutropium II: 485-501a
     5/25/2026: In Eutropium II: 501b-515
     6/1/2026: In Eutropium II: 516-533
     6/8/2026: In Eutropium II: 534-552
     6/15/2026: In Eutropium II: 553-571
     6/22/2026: In Eutropium II: 572-590
     6/29/2026: In Eutropium II: 591-602 (END — Next text De Bello Gothico)

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     3/9/2026: 107 (Haec quidem…despiciuntur exemplis)
     3/16/2026: 107 (Audistis forte…uno obolo)
     3/23/2026: 108 (Quid plura…longius recedente)
     3/30/2026: 108 (O inimici dei…nequaquam habetis)
     4/6/2026: 108 (Oportet ergo…ponenda erat?)
     4/13/2026: 109 (Sed videamus…approbantur)
     4/20/2026: 109 (Diaconos…adsciscantur)
     4/27/2026: 109 (Audistis etiam…actibus denegatis)
     5/4/2026: 109 (Vero sacerdoti…eius magna)
     5/11/2026: 109 (Petro eiusque…decidatis?)
     5/18/2026: 110 (Nec sibi…mysterium dei)
     5/25/2026: 110 (Multumque…Amen) END

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     3/9/2026: 2.15.79/19-80/5
     3/16/2026: 2.16.80/6-19 (indignacionis)
     3/23/2026: 2.16.80/19-30
     3/30/2026: 2.17.81/1-25 (intelligenciam)
     4/6/2026: 2.17.81/25-82/10
     4/13/2026: 2.17.82/11-83/3 (inuadere)
     4/20/2026: 2.17.83/3-23 (pulcherrimos)
     4/27/2026: 2.17.83/23-84/13
     5/4/2026: 2.17.84/14-29 (ceciderant)
     5/11/2026: 2.17.84/29-85/19
     5/18/2026: 2.18.85/20-86/14 (Andronem)
     5/25/2026: 2.18.86/14-31 (similitudinem)
     6/1/2026: 2.18.86/31-87/22
     6/8/2026: 2.19.87/23-88/16 (uidet)
     6/15/2026: 2.19.88/16-30
     6/22/2026: 2.19.88/31-89/16
     6/29/2026: 2.20.89/17-90/2

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:
     3/9/2026: 8.73.4-6
     3/16/2026: 8.73.7-9
     3/23/2026: 8.73.10-12
     3/30/2026: 8.73.13-16
     4/6/2026: 8.74.1-3
     4/13/2026: 8.74.4-6
     4/20/2026: 8.74.7-9
     4/27/2026: 8.74.10-12
     5/4/2026: 8.74.13-15
     5/11/2026: 8.74.16-18
     5/18/2026: 8.74.19-21
     5/25/2026: 8.74.22-24
     6/1/2026: 8.74.25-27
     6/8/2026: 8.74.28-30
     6/15/2026: 8.74.31-34
     6/22/2026: 9.75.1-3
     6/29/2026: 9.75.4-6

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     3/9/2026: XIII.916-934
     3/16/2026: XIII.935-948
     3/23/2026: XIII.949-968 (END)
     3/30/2026: XIV:1-24
     4/6/2026: XIV.25-39
     4/13/2026: XIV.40-58
     4/20/2026: XIV.59-74
     4/27/2026: XIV.75-100
     5/4/2026: XIV.101-115
     5/11/2026: XIV.116-128
     5/18/2026: XIV.129-153
     5/25/2026: XIV.154-176
     6/1/2026: XIV.177-197
     6/8/2026: XIV.198-222
     6/15/2026: XIV.223-232
     6/22/2026: XIV.233-253
     6/29/2026: XIV.254-270

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Mar 11 Jeremiah 8:1-11
     Mar 18 Jeremiah 8:12-23
     Mar 25 Jeremiah 9:1-12
     Apr 1 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 8 Jeremiah 9:13-25
     Apr 15 Jeremiah 10:1-12
     April 22 Jeremiah 10:13-25
     April 29 Jeremiah 11:1-11
     May 6 Jeremiah 11:12-23
     May 13 Jeremiah 12:1-8
     May 20 Jeremiah 12:9-17
     May 27 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:
     Mar 11 De Civitate Dei 7.0
     Mar 18 De Civitate Dei 7.1a, through "...aeterna est, opinetur."
     Mar 25 De Civitate Dei 7.1b, from "Qua in re..." to the end.
     April 1 - No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 8 De Civitate Dei 7.2a, through "...emisso semine liberetur."
     Apr 15 De Civitate Dei 7.2b, from "Omnes hi ex..." to the end.
     Apr 22 De Civitate Dei 7.3a, through "...merito praeferuntur."
     Apr 29 De Civitate Dei 7.3b, from "Inter selectos..."
         through "...sidereos opinantur."
     May 6 De Civitate Dei 7.3c, from "Si autem dicunt..."
          through "...minime posuerunt."
     May 13 De Civitate Dei 7.3d, from "Quae profecto..."
         through "...praecipuos nuncupatos."
     May 20 De Civitate Dei 7.3e, from "Vnde dicit..."
         through "...sint merita."
     May 27 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
     Mar 11 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.43b, from "Deus qui iustificat?" to end.
     Mar 18 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.44a, through, "...sicut Christum Iesum. "
     Mar 25 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.44b, from "Quae ergo fuit..." to end.
     Apr 1 No Assignment - Easter
     Apr 8 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.45a, thru "...ac testimonio praedicetur."
     Apr 15 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.45b, from "Invenimus enim in Genesi..."
         to the end.
     Apr 22 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.46a, through "...autem erat Christus ".
     Apr 29 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.46b, from "Quod utique non…" to the end.
     May 6 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.47a, through "...qui de caelo est."
     May 13 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.47b, from "Hanc imaginem virginitas..."
         to the end.
     May 20 De Doctrina Christiana 4.21.48a, through "...et figura probitatis. "
     May 27 No Assignment - Memorial 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:
     Mar 10 - cap. 7 TR
     Mar 17 - cap. 8 EX
     Mar 24 - cap. 8 SA
     Mar 31 - cap. 8 TR
     Apr 7 - no assignment
     Apr 14 - cap. 9 EX
     Apr 21 - cap. 9 SA
     Apr 28 - cap. 9 TR
     May 5 - cap. 10 EX
     May 12 - cap. 10 SA
     May 19 - cap. 10 TR
     May 26 - no assignment

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:
     Mar 12 - cap. 36, TR ('The quality'; 'I don't'; 'Oh, I'd...'; 'I love her')
     Mar 19 - cap. 36, TR ('Who is...'; 'Testimony...')
     Mar 26 - cap. 37, EX
     Apr 2 - no assignment
     Apr 9 - cap. 37, SA
     Apr 16 - cap. 37, TR ('Thanks'; 'Trimalchio's')
     Apr 23 - cap. 37, TR ('Marcus Quinto...')
     Apr 30 - cap. 38, EX
     May 7 - cap. 38, SA
     May 14 - cap. 38, TR ('Note on'; 'More examples'; 'Ask me' )
     May 21 - cap. 38, TR  ('Two letters to Cicero')
     May 28 - no assignment

Group: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (RFF)
Text: https://archive.org/details/ritchiesfabulae00kirtgoog
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Mar 12 - #86. Desperate Situation
     Mar 19 - #87. Plan For Vengeance
     Mar 26 - #88. A Glass Too Much
     Apr 2 - no assignment
     Apr 9 - #89. Blinding of Polyphemus
     Apr 16 - #90. Escape
     Apr 23 - #91. Out of Danger
     Apr 30 - #92. Country of the Winds
     May 7 - #93. Wind-Bag
     May 14 - #94. Drawing of Lots
     May 21 - #95. House of Enchantress
     May 28 - no assignment

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Mar 10 - cap. 50, 354-383, ex. 6 (11-14)
     Mar 17 - cap. 50, re-read 276-383, ex. 5
     Mar 24 - cap. 50, 384-420, ex. 8 (1-8)
     Mar 31 - cap. 50, 421-452, ex. 8 (9-10)
     Apr 7 - no assignment
     Apr 14 - cap. 50, 453-485, ex. 8 (11-13)
     Apr 21 - cap. 50, 486-506, ex. 17; 8 (14)
     Apr 28 - cap. 50, 507-538, ex. 10 (1-6)
     May 5 - cap. 50, 539-569, ex. 10 (7-12)
     May 12 - cap. 50, 570-601, ex. 10 (13-15)
     May 19 - cap. 50, re-read 507-601, ex. 9
     May 26 - no assignment

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:
     Mar 10 - cap. 36, 185-210: ex. 10 (1, 2, 5); 11 (19-21)
     Mar 17 - cap. 36, 211-239: ex. 11 (22-25)
     Mar 24 - cap. 36, 240-263: ex. 9; 11 (26-27)
     Mar 31 - cap. 36, 264-295: ex. 15 (1-3)
     Apr 7 - no assignment
     Apr 14 - cap. 36, 296-337: ex. 13 (1, 5, 7); 15 (4-9)
     Apr 21 - cap. 36, 338-370: ex. 12; 15 (10-14)

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