This direct method, based on understanding from the context, has proved efficient both for self-tuition and class teaching. The reading of this Latin ‘novel’ also serves as an introduction to the life and culture of ancient Rome. To meet these demands the chapters of Part I form an eventful and entertaining narrative, which captivates students so that they look forward to reading the continuation of the story. This demands a carefully graded text, but to promote learning the content must stimulate interest and make it easy for the reader to visualize the scenes described. In this text every sentence is intelligible per se because the meaning or function of all new words and forms is made clear by the context or by illustrations or marginal notes. Lingva Latina provides a Latin text that students can read and understand immediately without any need for translation. At first Livy’s prose is gently adapted, but the main part of the book contains unadapted texts by Livy, Aulus Gellius, Nepos, Sallust, Cicero, and Horace. A description of the city of Rome is followed by a prose version of Vergil’s Aeneid I-IV, with some important passages in the original, and Livy’s Book I supplemented with extracts from Ovid. In Part II, Roma Aeterna, the subject is Roman history. At the end of the book there is a survey of inflections, a Roman calendar, and a word index, Index vocabulorum. The 35 chapters form a sequence of events in the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century ad.Įach chapter is divided into 3 or 4 lessons ( lectiones) and consists of several text pages followed by a grammar section, Grammatica Latina, and three exercises, Pensa. Part I, Familia Romana, covers the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of some 1500 words.
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