Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:28:43 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for April 18, 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:
     Apr 20 The Coronation of Arthur, pp. 243-4,
         to “mulieribus epulatum incedunt.”
     Apr 27 no assignment

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 20 8.8.16-9.4
     Apr 27 no assignment

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 20 23.12.3-10
     Apr 27 no assignment

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 20 4.85-86
     Apr 27 no assignment

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Apr 20 8.149-50
     Apr 27 no assignment

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 VI: To a friend:
	    ll. 31-44: 20 April
	    ll. 45-60: 27 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:
     Liber V:
         pp. 95-97: ll. 130-145: 20 April
	p. 07: ll.145-162: 27 April

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XVI:
         Section 12: Julian attacks the Alamanni:
	    6-7: 20 April
	    8-9: 27 April

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. 953-970: 20 April
     ll. 971-990: 27 April

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liver XI
         Story VI: Who the women and men of Rome Worship
	    All: 20 April
	 Story VII: Very,very old words:
	     Sections 1-4: 27 April

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Heliogabalus)
	section 7: 20 April
	section 8: 27 April

Group: Ovid's Fasti (Fasti)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber I:
         ll. 247-262: 20 April
	ll. 263-280: 27 April

Group: Claudian (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     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:
     Apr 21 - cap. 36, 338-370: ex. 12; 15 (10-14)
     Apr 28 - cap. 37, 1-19: ex. 3 (1-5)
     May 5 - cap. 37, 20-49: ex. 3 (6-9)
     May 12 - cap. 37, 50-77: ex. 3 (10-11)
     May 19 - cap. 37, 78-88: ex. 1 ; 3 (12-15)
     May 26 - no assignment

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