Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 19:34:59 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for May 5, 2024

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Group Listings:

Group: Plautus (Plautus)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: A Plautus Reader: Selections from Eleven Plays" by John Henderson
Assignments:
     May 13 2B Poenulus 541-66
     May 20, May 27, Jun 3 no assignment
     Jun 10 3A Pseudolus 394-414
     Jun 17 3B Menaechmi 77-109

Group: Medieval Latin (MedLat)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: Beeson's Primer of Medieval Latin
Assignments:
     May 7 "Ebrardo Abboti Turonensi," pp. 199-200.
     May 14 "Alcuin's Farewell to his Cell," pp. 319-320.
     May 20, May 27, Jun 3 no assignment
     Jun 10 "Rainardo Monacho," pp. 200-1.

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     May 6 7.17.11-18.2
     May 13 7.18.3-9
     May 20 7.18.10-19.4
     May 27, Jun 3 no assignment
     Jun 10 7.19.5-9

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     May 6 22.35
     May 13 22.36.1-6
     May 20 22.36.7-37.5
     May 27, Jun 3 no assignment
     Jun 10 22.37.6-11

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     May 6 4.25
     May 13 4.26
     May 20 4.27
     May 27, Jun 3 no assignment
     dJun 10 4.28

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     May 6 7.23-5
     May 13 7.28, 30, 32
     May 20 7.33, 36-7
     May 2, Jun 3 no assignment
     Jun 10 7.39, 42-4

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 Messalinus:
             ll. 91-110: 6 May
             ll. 111-end: 13 May
         To Maximus:
             ll. 1-16: 20 May
             ll. 17-30: 27 May

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 II:
         p. 45, ll. 264-277: 6 May
         p. 45, ll. 277-289: 13 May
         p. 45-47, ll.289-300: 20 May
         p. 47, ll.301-318: 27 May

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XV:
         IV. On the Lentienes:
             Sections 9-10: 6 May
             Sections 11-13: 13 May
         V.  Silvanus named Augustus and Murdered:
             Sections: 1-3: 20 May
             Section 4: 27 May

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. 603-624: 6 May
         ll. 625-642: 13 May
         ll. 643-669: 20 May
         ll. 670-685: 27 May

Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Georgics II:
         l.34-48: 6 May
         ll.49-65: 13 May
         ll. 66-85: 20 May
         ll. 86-102: 27 May

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 XXXV: To Placentia
         pp. 200-201, ll. 111-123: 6 May
         p. 202,  ll. 124-end: 13 May
     Caput XXXVI: At Placentia
         p. 203, ll. 1-13: 20 May
         p. 203, ll. 14-24: 27 May

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber VII:
         Story 16: Catullus:
             Sections 5-10: 6 May
             Sections 11-end: 13 May
         Story 17: Public Libraries (all): 20 May
     Liber IX (Liber VIII is only in headings):
         Story 1: Hurling missiles more accurately:
             Sections 1-2: 27 May

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Severus):
         section 14: 6 May
         section 15: 13 May
         section 16: 20 May
         section 17: 27 May

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 5/5/2024: 69 (tuo?)
     Assignment due 5/12/2024: 70 (mactavit?)
     Assignment due 5/19/2024: 70 (processit?)
     Assignment due 5/25/2024: 71 (accepi?)
     Assignment due 6/2/2024: 71 (meam?)
     Assignment due 6/9/2024: 72 (desperata?)
     Assignment due 6/16/2024: 72 (est?)
     Assignment due 6/23/2024: 73 (est?)
     Assignment due 6/30/2024: 73 (est?)

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 5/5/2024: 1.39/31-1.40/9 (admirabilis)
     Assignment due 5/12/2024: 1.40/9-24
     Assignment due 5/19/2024: 1.40/25-1.41/8
     Assignment due 5/25/2024: 1.41/9-18
     Assignment due 6/2/2024: 1.41/19-30 (extra)
     Assignment due 6/9/2024: 1.41/30-1.42/12
     Assignment due 6/16/2024: 1.42/13-28
     Assignment due 6/23/2024: 1.42/29-1.43/12 (excludunt)

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 5/5/2024: II.1.89
     Assignment due 5/12/2024: II.1.90
     Assignment due 5/19/2024: II.1.91
     Assignment due 5/25/2024: II.1.92
     Assignment due 6/2/2024: II.1.93
     Assignment due 6/9/2024: II.1.94
     Assignment due 6/16/2024: II.1.95
     Assignment due 6/23/2024: II.1.96
     Assignment due 6/30/2024: II.1.97

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 5/5/2024: 6.58.31-33
     Assignment due 5/12/2024: 6.58.34-37
     Assignment due 5/19/2024: 6.59.1-3
     Assignment due 5/25/2024: 6.59.4-6
     Assignment due 6/2/2024: 6.59.7-9
     Assignment due 6/9/2024: 6.59.10-12
     Assignment due 6/16/2024: 6.59.13-15
     Assignment due 6/23/2024: 6.59.16-18
     Assignment due 6/30/2024: 6.60.1-3

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     Assignment due 5/5/2024: XI.694-709
     Assignment due 5/12/2024: XI.710-730
     Assignment due 5/19/2024: XI.731-748
     Assignment due 5/25/2024: XI.749-770
     Assignment due 6/2/2024: XI.771-795 (FINIS)
     Assignment due 6/9/2024: XII.1-23
     Assignment due 6/16/2024: XII.24-38
     Assignment due 6/23/2024: XII.39-63
     Assignment due 6/30/2024: XII.64-85

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments
     May 8 Matthew 18:24-35
     May 15 Matthew 19:1-10
     May 22 Matthew 19:11-20
     May 29 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:
     May 8 De Civitate Dei 5.14a, through "...magis quam Dei."
     May 15 De Civitate Dei 5.14b,
         from "Quod sancti apostoli..." through, "...qui in caelis est."
     May 22 De Civitate Dei 5.14c, from "Sed rursus ne..." to the end.
     May 29 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
     May 8 De Doctrina Christiana 3.35.51
     May 15 De Doctrina Christiana 3.36.52a, through "...bonum in escam."
     May 22 De Doctrina Christiana 3.36.52b, from "Denique secutus…" to end.
     May 29 No Assignment - Memorial 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:
     May 9 Assignment 153 Ex 4.3 Verres in Sicily
     May 16 Assignment 154 Ex 4.4 roof tiles

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:
     May 9 - cap. 11 EX
     May 16 - cap. 11 SA
     May 23 - cap. 11 TR
     May 30 - no assignment

     Jun 6 - cap. 12 EX
     Jun 13 - cap. 12 SA
     Jun 20 - cap. 12 TR
     Jun 27 - cap. 13 EX

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:
     May 7 - #10. Literature... (lines 1-10)
     May 14 - #10. Literature... (lines 11-18)
     May 21 - #10. Literature... (lines 18-end)
     May 28 - no assignment

     June 4 - #11 and #12 (Death...; Too conscientious)
     June 11 - #13. Quam multa...
     June 18 - #14. What makes... (lines 1-7)
     June 25 - #14. What mkes... (lines 8-end)

Group: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (RFF)
Text: https://archive.org/details/ritchiesfabulae00kirtgoog
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     May 9 - #6. Sea serpent
     May 16 - #7. Human sacrifice
     May 23 - #8. Rescue
     May 30 - no assignment
     Jun 6 - #9. Reward of valor
     Jun 13 - #10. Polydectes...
     Jun 20 - #11. Oracle fulfilled

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:
     May 7 - p. 278, 13-28
         ("tibi gratias ..... rogare uoluit.)
     May 14 - p. 278, 29 - 279
         ("omnia in tempore!" ..... somniabat.)
     May 21 - p. 280, "0"-15
         (CAPVT 17 ..... alligatam.)
     May 28 - no assignment
     June 4 - p. 280, 16 - 281, 12
         ("salue Thorine!" ..... dabimus.")
     June 11 - p. 281, 13-27
         ("quomodo eum ..... eius audi!")
     June 18 - p. 281, 28 - 282, 8
         ("uos omnes ..... relinque!")
     June 25 - p. 282, 9-20
         ("rem relinquam" ..... deiciam.")

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
     May 7 - cap. 28, 20-55, ex. 2 ; 3 (8-12)
     May 14 - cap. 28, 56-89, ex. 6 (1-8) ; 11 ( 1-10)
     May 21 - cap. 28, 90-108, ex. 5 ; 6 (9-13)
     May 28 - no assignment
     June 4 - cap. 28, 109-146, ex. 10 (1-4) ; 11 (14-19)
     June 11 - cap. 28, 147-189, ex. 9 ; 10 (5-12)
     June 18 - cap. 28, grammatica, ex. 4 ; 12
     June 25 - cap. 28, grammatica, ex. 7 ; 8

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Delos Fast)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     May 9 - cap. 54, 273-316, ex. 8 (1-7)
     May 16 - cap. 54, 317-373, ex. 8 (8-14)
     May 23 - no assignment
     May 30 - cap. 54, 374-439, ex. 10 (1-7)
     June 6 - cap. 54, 440-492, ex. 10 (8-11)
     June 13 - cap. 54, 493-555, ex. 12 (1-9)
     June 20 - cap. 54, 556-617, ex. 12 (10-18)
     June 27 - cap. 55, 1-58, ex. 2 (1-5)

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
     May 7 - cap. 45, 327-343; ex. 14 ; 15 (13-19)
     May 14 - cap. 45, 344-370; ex. 17 (1-10)
     May 21 - cap. 45, 371-391; ex. 17 (11-16)
     May 28 - no assignment
     June 4 - cap. 45, 392-413; ex. 16 ; 17 (17-19)
     June 11 - cap. 46, 1-40; ex. 3 (1-6)
     June 18 - cap. 46, 41-84; ex. 2 ; 3 (7-11)
     June 25 - cap. 46, 85-123; ex. 1 ; 3 (12-15)

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