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From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 19:52:49 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for July 8, 2024


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Group: Plautus (Plautus)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: A Plautus Reader: Selections from Eleven Plays" by John Henderson
Assignments:
     Jul 8 4A Truculentus 482–506
     Jul 15 4A Truculentus 507–529
     Jul 22 4A Truculentus 530–548
     Jul 29 4B Casina 780–820



Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin
Assignments:
     Jul 9 "A Liturgical Play," pp. 202-3, to "Myrrha mortalem."
     Jul 16 "A Subscription" and "Inscription for a Scriptorium," pp. 322-3.
     Jul 23 "A Liturgical Play," pp. 203-4, to "adorare venimus."
     Jul 30 "The Library at York," pp. 323-4.



Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Jul 8 7.20.5(contd.)-8
     Jul 15 7.20.9-21.3
     Jul 22 7.21.4-8
     Jul 29 7.21.9-5



Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Jul 8 22.38.5-11
     Jul 15 22.38.12-39.5
     Jul 22 22.39.6-10
     Jul 29 22.39.11-17



Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Jul 8 4.30
     Jul 15 4.31
     Jul 22 4.32
     Jul 29 4.33



Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Jul 8 7.39, 42
     Jul 15 43-4
     Jul 22 45-6
     Jul 29 48-9



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 II
         To Maximus:
             ll. 91-end: 8 July
         To Atticus:
             ll. 1-14: 15 July
             ll. 15-25: 22 July
             ll. 26-34: 29 July


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 III:
         p. 49, ll. 23-33: 8 July
         pp. 49-51. ll. 33-42: 15 July
         p. 51, ll. 43-54: 22 July
         p. 50, ll. 54-64: 29 July




Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
      Liber XV:
          V.  Silvanus named Augustus and Murdered:
              Section 13&14: 8 July
              Section 15&16: 15 July
              Section 17&18: 22 July
              Section 19&20: 29 July




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 3:
         ll. 761-774: 8 July
         ll. 775-792: 15 July
         ll. 793-803: 22 July
         ll. 804-816: 29 July



Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
      Georgics III:
          ll. 162-173: 8 July
          ll, 174-189: 15 July
          ll. 190-204: 22 July
          ll. 205-223: 29 July



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 XXXVI: At Placentia
     p. 206, ll. 82-97: 8 July
     pp. 206-207, ll. 98-113: 15 July
     p. 207, ll. 114-128: 22 July
     pp. 207-208, ll. 129-149: 29 July



Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber IX:
         Story 4: Barbarians, especially their women:
             sections: 1-5: 8 July
             sections: 6-10: 15 July
             sections: 11-end: 22 July
          Story 5: Philosophical thoughts on pleasure;
              sections: all, 29 July



Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
      SHA (Severus):
          Section 22: 8 July
          Section 23: 15 July
          Section 24: 22 July
     SHA (Pescennius Niger):
         Section 1: 29 July




Group: Claudian’s Carmina minora (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: Fescennine Verses I.1-25
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: Fescennine Verses I.26-45
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: Fescennine Verses II.1-26
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: Fescennine Verses II.27-47
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: Fescennine Verses III
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: Fescennine Verses IV.1-17
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: Fescennine Verses IV.18-37
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: Epithalamium Praefatio
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: Epithalamium 1-19
     Assignment due 9/15/2024: Epithalamium 20-39a



Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: 74 (discipulus)
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: 74 (cinis)
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: 75
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: 76 (sacerdotio)
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: 76 (trahunt?)
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: 77
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: 78
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: 79 (cogitatio)
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: 79 (delectata est)
     Assignment due 9/15/2024: 80 (dominus)



Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: 1.44/15-29
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: 1.44/30-45/11
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: 1.45/12-21
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: 1.45/21-46/7
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: 1.46/7-20
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: 1.46/21-47/10
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: 1.47/10-31
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: 1.47/31-48/11
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: 1.48/12-30
     Assignment due 9/15/2024: 1.49/1-11
     Assignment due 6/30/2024: 1.43/12-32



Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: II.1.99
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: II.1.100
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: II.1.101
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: II.1.102
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: II.1.103
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: II.1.104
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: II.1.105
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: II.1.106
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: II.1.107
     Assignment due 9/15/2024: II.1.108



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:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: 6.62
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: 7.63.1-3
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: 7.63.4-6
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: 7.63.7-9
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: 7.63.10-12
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: 7.63.13-16
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: 7.64.1-3
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: 7.64.4-6
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: 7.64.7-10
     Assignment due 9/15/2024: 7.65.1-3



Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 7/14/2024: XII.106b-127
     Assignment due 7/21/2024: XII.128-145
     Assignment due 7/28/2024: XII.146-167
     Assignment due 8/4/2024: XII.168-188
     Assignment due 8/11/2024: XII.189-209
     Assignment due 8/18/2024: XII.210-229
     Assignment due 8/25/2024: XII.230-244
     Assignment due 9/1/2024: XII.245-265
     Assignment due 9/8/2024: XII.266-284
     Assignment due 9/15/2024:285-309



Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Jul 10 Matthew 21:1-11
     Jul 17 Matthew 21:12-24
     Jul 24 Matthew 21:25-35
     Jul 31 Matthew 21:36-46
     Aug 7 Matthew 22:1-12
     Aug 14 Matthew 22:13-24
     Aug 21 Matthew 22:25-35
     Aug 28 Matthew 22:36-46
     Sep 4 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:
     Jul 10 De Civitate Dei 5.17c, from "Sed utamur etiam..." to the end.
     Jul 17 De Civitate Dei 5.18a, through, "...inmensa cupido."
     Jul 24 De Civitate Dei 5.18b,
         from "Haec sunt duo…" through, "...bona terrena contemnunt?"
     Jul 31 De Civitate Dei 5.18c,
         from "Si Furius Camillus…" through, "...corpus inpenderit?"
     Aug 7 De Civitate Dei 5.18d,
         from "Si Curtius armatus…" through, "...caritate certarunt?"
     Aug 14 De Civitate Dei 5.18e,
         from "Si Marcus Puluillus…" through, "...fides ipsa perducit?"
     Aug 21 De Civitate Dei 5.18f,
         from "Aut quid retribuetur…" through, "...priuatum manere maluisse?"
     Aug 28 De Civitate Dei 5.18g,
         from "Nam illud quod..." through, "...successibus augeretur?"
     Sep 4 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
     Jul 10 De Doctrina Christiana 3.37.55b,
         from "Quod enim scriptum est..." to the end.
     Jul 17 De Doctrina Christiana 3.37.56a,
         through "...vel adiutoria tribuuntur."
     Jul 24 De Doctrina Christiana 3.37.56b,
         from "Proinde sicut..." to the end.  End of Book III!
     Jul 31 De Doctrina Christiana 4.1.1
     Aug 7 De Doctrina Christiana 4.1.2
     Aug 14 De Doctrina Christiana 4.2.3
     Aug 21 De Doctrina Christiana 4.3.4a, thri "...aetates velimus impendi."
     Aug 28 De Doctrina Christiana 4.3.4b,
         from "Satis est ut..." through, "...aliquid prosunt."
     Sep 4 No Assignment - Labor Day (US)



Group: Latin to GCSE, Part 2 (Cullen2)
Coordinator: Jennifer Margrison <jmargrison at gmail dot com>
Text: Latin Beyond GCSE Second Edition by John Taylor
Comment: Intermediate Latin
Assignments:
     July 11 Assignment 160 Ex 4.10 Murder of Caesar



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:
     Jul 11 - cap. 13 SA
     Jul 18 - cap. 13 TR
     Jul 25 - cap. 14 EX
     Aug 1 - cap. 14 SA
     Aug 8 - cap. 14 TR
     Aug 15 - cap. 15 EX
     Aug 22 - cap. 15 SA
     Aug 29 - no assignment
     Sep 5 - cap. 15 TR
     Sep 12 - cap. 16 EX
     Sep 19 - cap. 16 SA
     Sep 26 - cap. 16 TR
     Oct 3 - cap. 17 EX
     Oct 10 - cap. 17 SA
     Oct 17 - cap. 17 TR
     Oct 24 - cap. 18 EX
     Oct 31 - cap. 18 SA




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:
     July 9 - #15. Themistocles: Fame...
     July 16 - #16. Get the Tusculan...
     July 23 - #17. Livy... (lines 1-9)
     July 30 - #17. Livy... (lines 10-end)
     Aug 6 - #18. Miltiades (lines 1-9)
     Aug 13 - #18. Miltiades (lines 10-19)
     Aug 20 - #18. Miltiades (lines 20-28)
     Aug 27 - #18. Miltiades (lines 29-35)
     Sep 3 - no assignment
     Sep 10 - #18. Miltiades (lines 36-45)
     Sep 17 - #18. Miltiades (lines 45-end)
     Sep 24 - #19. Themistocles...Salamis (lines 1-12)
     Oct 1 - #19. Themistocles...Salamis (lines 13-22)
     Oct 8 - #19. Themistocles...Salamis (lines 23-34)
     Oct 15 - #19. Themistocles...Salamis (lines 35-41)
     Oct 22 - #19. Themistocles...Salamis (lines 42-end)
     Oct 29 - #20. Aristides (lines 1-10)



Group: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (RFF)
Text: https://archive.org/details/ritchiesfabulae00kirtgoog
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Jul 11 - #13. Hercules...serpents
     Jul 18 - #14. Music lesson
     Jul 25 - #15. Hercules escapes...
     Aug 1 - #16. Cruel deed




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:
     July 9 - p. 282, 21 - 283, 2
         ("quid de auro ..... senserunt.)
     July 16 - p. 283, 3-15
         ("ualete!" ..... iuberent.)
     July 23 - p. 283, 16 - 284, 3
         (ille dies ..... fuerunt toruae.)
     July 30 - p. 284, 4-19
         (tubae ..... non uisa est.)
     Aug 6 - p. 284, 20 to bottom
         (Vates, sane ..... parum habuerunt.)
     Aug 13 - p. 285, 1-15
         (re uera ..... requieuerunt!")
     Aug 20 - p. 285, 16-27
         (Rex-dryadum ..... committebatur.)
     Aug 27 - p. 285, 28 - 186, 11
         (magis repente ..... sequuntur!")
     Sep 3 - no assignment
     Sep 10 - p. 286, 12-24
         (omnes omnino ..... nunc statuerunt.)
     Sep 17 - p. 286, 25 - 287, 8
         (a uiis arcanis ..... impetum subitum.)
     Sep 24 - p. 287, 9-24
         (hoc est ..... se ordinemus!")
     Oct 1 - p. 287, 25 - 288, 8
         (in iugo ..... aestus pergebant.)
     Oct 8 - p. 288, 9-19
         (atrociter ..... eligat.)
     Oct 15 - p. 288, 20 to bottom
         (dryades ..... uenerunt.)
     Oct 22 - p. 289, 1-13
         (terror in ..... obstiterunt.)
     Oct 29 - p. 289, 14-23
         (die crescente ..... se opponebant.)



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
     July 9 - cap. 29, 1-35, ex. 3 (1-9)
     July 16 - cap. 29, 36-59, ex. 2 ; 3 (10-12)
     July 23 - cap. 29, 60-91, ex. 1 ; 6 (1-6)
     July 30 - cap. 29, 91-126, ex. 5 ; 6 (7-14)
     Aug 6 - cap. 29, 127-148, ex. 4 ; 10 (1-6)
     Aug 13 - cap. 29, 149-181, ex. 8 ; 10 (7-10)
     Aug 20 - cap. 29, 182-202, ex. 9 ; 10 (11-14)
     Aug 27 - cap. 29, grammatica, ex. 7 ; 11
     Sep 3 - no assignment
     Sep 10 - cap. 30, 1-24, ex. 3 (1-10)
     Sep 17 - cap. 30, 25-38, ex. 2 ; 3 (11-15)
     Sep 24 - cap. 30, 39-65, ex. 1 ; 7 (1-3)
     Oct 1 - cap. 30, 66-85, ex. 6 ; 7 (4-11)
     Oct 8 - cap. 30, 86-107, ex. 4 ; 11 (1-5)
     Oct 15 - cap. 30, 108-134, ex. 5 ; 11 (6-11)
     Oct 22 - cap. 30, 135-158, ex. 9 ; 10 ; 11 (12-15)
     Oct 29 - cap. 30, grammatica, ex. 12 (4-10, 13-15) ; 13



Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     July 11 - cap. 55, 59-106, ex. 2 (6-11)
     July 18 - cap. 55, 107-156, ex. 4 (1-8)
     July 25 - cap. 55, 157-214, ex. 4 (9-11)
     Aug 1 - cap. 55, 215-272, ex. 6 (1-5)
     Aug 8 - cap. 55, 273-344, ex. 6 (6-11)
     Aug 15 - cap. 55, 345-400, ex. 8 (1-7)
     Aug 22 - cap. 55, 401-471, ex. 8 (8-12)
     Aug 29 - no assignment
     Sep 5 - cap. 56, 1-60, ex. 2
     Sep 12 - cap. 56, 61-139, ex. 4
     Sep 19 - cap. 56, 140-186, ex. 6 (1-7)
     Sep 26 - cap. 56, 187-231, ex. 6 (8-13)
     Oct 3 - cap. 56, 232-298, ex. 8 (1-4)
     Oct 10 - cap. 56, 299-325, ex. 8 (5-12)  - FINIS -



Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
     July 9 - cap. 46, 124-162; ex. 5 (1-4)
     July 16 - cap. 46, 163-193; ex. 5 (5-8)
     July 23 - cap. 46, 194-214; ex. 4 ; 5 (9-13)
     July 30 - cap. 46, 215-250; ex. 8 (1-8)
     Aug 6 - cap. 46, 251-278; ex. 6 (1-5) ; 8 (9-12)
     Aug 13 - cap. 46, 279-305; ex. 7 ; 8 (13-16)
     Aug 20 - cap. 46, 306-331; ex. 11 (1-3)
     Aug 27 - cap. 46, 332-361; ex. 11 (4-8)
     Sep 3 - no assignment
     Sep 10 - cap. 46, 361-391; ex. 11 (9-14)
     Sep 17 - cap. 46, 391-421; ex. 11 (15-19)
     Sep 24 - cap. 46, 422-448; ex. 11 (20-23)
     Oct 1 - cap. 46, 449-477; ex. 10 ; 11 (24-26)
     Oct 8 - cap. 47, 1-32; ex. 2 (1-3)
     Oct 15 - cap. 47, 33-63; ex. 2 (4-8)
     Oct 22 - cap. 47, 64-103; ex. 1 ; 2 (9-12)
     Oct 29 - cap. 47, 104-138; ex. 5 (1-7)

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