Latin Study Groups

From: Kirk Lougheed via LatinStudy <latinstudy at quasillum dot com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 16:32:21 -0700
Subject: Latin Activities: Update for November 2, 2025

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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:
     Nov 3 no assignment (moving into winter quarters)
     Nov 10 Incidents of the First Crusade, pp. 227-8, to "paene processerant."
     Nov 17 Incidents of the First Crusade, pp. 228-9, to the end.
     Nov 24 A Medieval Orbilius, p. 229.

Group: Livy Early Rome (LivyER)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Nov 3 no assignment (moving into winter quarters)
     Nov 10 7.40.13-19
     Nov 17 7.41.1-5
     Nov 24 7.41.6-2

Group: Livy Hannibalian War (LivyHW)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/liv.html and posted
Assignments:
     Nov 3 no assignment (moving into winter quarters)
     Nov 10 23.1.1-6
     Nov 17 23.1.7-2.4
     Nov 24 23.2.5-10

Group: Tacitus' Histories (Tacitus Histories)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tac.html and posted
Assignments:
     Nov 3 no assignment (moving into winter quarters)
     Nov 10 4.70 (contd.)
     Nov 17 4.71 (part)
     Nov 24 4.71 (contd.)

Group: Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder (PlinySr)
Coordinator: John Isles <j_isles at yahoo dot com>
Text: posted
Assignments:
     Nov 3 no assignment (moving into winter quarters)
     Nov 10 8.8-9, 11
     Nov 17 8.12-14
     Nov 24 8.16-19

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:
         To Fabius Maximus:
             ll. 51-64: 3 November
             ll. 65-78: 10 November
             ll. 79-92: 17 November
             ll. 93-end: 24 November

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 IV:
         p. 85, ll. 348-359: 3 November
         pp. 85-87, ll. 360-371: 10 November
         p. 87, ll. 372-386: 17 November
         p. 87, ll. 386-398: 24 November

Group: Ammianus Marcellinus (Ammianus)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/ammianus.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
     Liber XVI:
         Section 9: Peace with Persia?, all: 3 November
         Section 10: Constantius, victories and a triumph:
             sections: 1-3: 10 November
             sections 4-6: 17 November
             sections 7-9: 24 November

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:
     Act II Clytemnestra
         ll. 649-663: 3 November
         ll. 664-692: 10 November
         ll. 693-709: 17 November
         ll. 710-725: 24 November

Group: Georgics (Vergil)
Text: posted,  http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/verg.html
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Georgics IV:
         ll. 425-440: 3 November
         ll. 440-452: 10 November
         ll. 453-466: 17 November
         ll. 467-480: 24 November

Group: Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights (AtticNights)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     Liber X
         Story XXII: about Plato's Gorgias:
             sections: 14: 3 November
         Story XXIII: Cato's speech on the women: all, 10 November
         Story XXIV: Words denoting days:
             Section 1-5: 17 November
             Section 6-end: 24 November

Group: Scriptores Historiae Augustae (SHA)
Text: posted
Coordinator: Sally Winchester <bcuthill at us dot net>
Assignments:
     SHA (Opilius Macrinus):
         Section 13: 3 November
         Section 14: 10 November
         Section 15: 17 November
     SHA (Diadumenus Antoninus):
         section 1: 24 November

Group: Claudian (Claudian)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     11/2/2025: In Eutropium II: 40-58a
     11/9/2025: In Eutropium II: 58b-78
     11/16/2025: In Eutropium II: 79-102
     11/23/2025: In Eutropium II: 103-118
     11/30/2025: In Eutropium II: 119-132
     12/7/2025: In Eutropium II: 133-150
     12/14/2025: In Eutropium II: 151-173
     12/21/2025: In Eutropium II: 174-194a
     BREAK

Group: De Excidio et conquestu Britanniae (Gildas)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     11/2/2025: 100 (Et iterum ad…habitat in vobis)
     11/9/2025: 100 (Si quis autem…sui sceleris consortem)
     11/16/2025: 101
     11/23/2025: 102
     11/30/2025: 103 (Sed et quod…quae ignorant Deum)
     12/7/2025: 103 (Et ne quis…dei potissimum consurgat)
     12/14/2025: 104 (Audite itaque quid…impiis non sedebo)
     12/21/2025: 104 (Et post aliquanta…et illorum fuit)
     BREAK

Group: Walter Map’s De nugis curialium (Map Trifles)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     11/2/2025: 2.11.72/23-2.11.73/13 (exiit)
     11/9/2025: 2.11.73/13-29 (inveniatur)
     11/16/2025: 2.11.73/29-2.11.74/14 (praesumpserit)
     11/23/2025: 2.11.74/14-29 (habuit)
     11/30/2025: 2.11.74/29-2.11.75/7
     12/7/2025: 2.12.75/8-26 (efficitur)
     12/14/2025: 2.12.75/26-2.12.76/12
     12/21/2025: 2.12.76/13-29 (propria)

Group: Cicero's second Verrine oration (Cicero In Verrem)
Text: posted
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     11/2/2025: II.1.158 [END]

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:
     11/2/2025: 8.71.13-15
     11/9/2025: 8.71.16-18
     11/16/2025: 8.71.19-21
     11/23/2025: 8.71.22-24
     11/30/2025: 8.71.25-27
     12/7/2025: 8.71.28-30
     12/14/2025: 8.71.31-33
     12/21/2025: 8.71.34-37

Group: Ovid's Metamorphoses (Ovid)
Text: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Coordinator: John Weretka <john.weretka at gmail dot com>
Assignments:
     11/2/2025: XIII. 697-709
     11/9/2025: XIII. 710-721
     11/16/2025: XIII. 722-739
     11/23/2025: XIII. 740-763
     11/30/2025: XIII. 764-777
     12/7/2025: XIII. 778-788
     12/14/2025: XIII. 789-807
     12/21/2025: XIII. 808-824a
     BREAK

Group: Vulgate (Vulgate)
Coordinator: Ann Boulais <periwinkle456 at email dot com>
Text: posted, http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/gen.htm
Assignments:
     Nov 5 Jeremiah 3:9-17
     Nov 12 Jeremiah 3:18-25
     Nov 19 Jeremiah 4:1-10
     Nov 26 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Dec 3 Jeremiah 4:11-20
     Dec 10 Jeremiah 4:21-31
     Dec 17 Jeremiah 5:1-10
     Dec 24 No Assignment - Christmas
     Dec 31 No Assignment - New Year's Eve

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:
     Nov 5 De Civitate Dei 6.9a, through "...ea iussit auferri."
     Nov 12 De Civitate Dei 6.9b,
         from "Saltem hic..." through "...feta conseruaretur."
     Nov 19 De Civitate Dei 6.9c,
         from "Ita contra..." through "... aliqua una?"
     Nov 26 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Dec 3 De Civitate Dei 6.9d,
         from "Numquid Venus..." through "...religiosissimo matronarum?"
     Dec 10 De Civitate Dei 6.9e,
         from "Eant adhuc..." through "...opinor, ostendi."
     Dec 17 De Civitate Dei 6.9f, from "Vnde, quia sunt..." to the end.
     Dec 24 No Assignment - Christmas
     Dec 31 No Assignment - New Year's Eve

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
     Nov 5 De Doctrina Christiana 4.18.37b, from "Nisi forte quoniam..." to end.
     Nov 12 De Doctrina Christiana 4.19.38a, thru "Numquid ideo non discitur ?"
     Nov 19 De Doctrina Christiana 4.19.38b, from "Aut qui docet…" to the end.
     Nov 26 No Assignment - Thanksgiving (US)
     Dec 3 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.39a, through "...est mater nostra."
     Dec 10 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.39b,
         from "Itemque ubi ratiocinatur.." through "...non est haereditas?"
     Dec 17 De Doctrina Christiana 4.20.39c,
         from "Ipse sibi hoc..." through "...quid eiusmodi est."
     Dec 24 No Assignment - Christmas
     Dec 31 No Assignment - New Year's Eve

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:
     Nov 6  Assignment 215 6.3 (ii) Mucius Scaevola
         line 12 - 23 ending at "est idem petentium decus."
     Nov 13 Assignment 216  Ex. 6.3 (ii) line 23 to end

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:
     Nov 4 - cap. 2, SA 16-20; TR
     Nov 11 - cap. 3, EX
     Nov 18 - cap. 3, SA and TR
     Nov 25 - no assignment
     Dec 2 - cap. 4, EX
     Dec 9 - cap. 4, SA
     Dec 16 thru 30 - no assignments

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:
     Nov 6 - cap. 33, EX
     Nov 13 - cap. 33, SA
     Nov 20 - cap. 33, TR ('B.Y.O.B.')
     Nov 27 - no assignment
     Dec 4 - cap. 33, TR ('The rich...'; 'Aristotle...'; 'Your loss')
     Dec 11 - cap. 34, EX
     Dec 18 through Jan 1 - no assignments

Group: Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles (RFF)
Text: https://archive.org/details/ritchiesfabulae00kirtgoog
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Nov 6 - #72. Seizure of the Fleece
     Nov 13 - #73. Return to the Argo
     Nov 20 - #74. Pursuit!
     Nov 27 - no assignment
     Dec 4 - #75. A Fearful Expedient
     Dec 11 - #76. Bargain With Pelias
     Dec 18 through Jan 1 - no assignments

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
Assignments:
     Nov 4 - cap. 34, re-read 59-154, ex. 5
     Nov 11 - cap. 34, 155-185, ex. 9 (1-5)
     Nov 18 - cap. 34, 186-217, ex.  9 (6-12) ; 11
     Nov 25 - cap. 34, re-read 155-217, ex. 7 ; 8
     Dec 2 - cap. 35, 1-56, ex. 1
     Dec 9 - cap. 35, 46-221, ex. 2
     Dec 16 - cap. 35, 222-237, ex. 3
     -- FINIS --

Group: Lingua Latina Pars II (Hora2)
Text: Lingua Latina: Pars II: Romana Aeterna
Coordinator: Diana Poskrop <dianaposk at yahoo dot com>
Assignments:
     Nov 4 - cap. 49, relegite 172-275, ex. 5
     Nov 11 - cap. 50, 1-34, ex. 2 (1-4)
     Nov 18 - cap. 50, 35-63, ex. 2 (5-7)
     Nov 25 - no assignment
     Dec 2 - cap. 50, 64-97, ex. 2 (8-10)
     Dec 9 - cap. 50, 98-128, ex. 2 (11-14)
     Dec 16-30 - no assignments

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