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                 Lingua Latina (Ørberg Latin Series)

                 Latin for Young Readers

                 First Year Latin texts

                 Supplements to First Year Latin

                 Intermediate Latin texts

                 Latin Commentaries

                 Latin Prose Composition

                 Latin Reference

First Year Latin Texts

  Lingua Latina:

  A Universal Latin Series

  Hans Ørberg

  Lingua Latina is a complete series of Latin texts in the natural method. Studetns approach Latin by reading in Latin from the first day, inferring grammar points as necssary. Because students learn to think in Latin, their readings skills are superior after the full year course taught in Familia Romana. This book is followed by the second year book, Roma Aeterna, which brings students a rich source of unaltered Latin. A new companion to Lingua Latina was published in 2008. This full series is covered on the details page.

  New Steps in Latin

  Lee Pearcy, Mary Allen,
  Thomas Kent, Michael
  Klaassen, Mary Van Dyke
  Konopka and Alexander
  Pearson

A three book series designed specifically for middle school students (grades 6-9).

  2005 • 1-58510-270-9 • paper •
  352 pages • $29.95

  A complete, streamlined introductory course  
  in Latin. With readings and exercises.

Online Flash Cards, Drills and Puzzles!

  2008 • 978-1-58510-283-9 • paper •
  362 pages •   $24.95

  This text is specifically designed to accompany
  Shelmerdine's Introduction to Latin, providing
  help to the student in learning Latin, and providing numerous additional readings and grammatical explanations.

  1998 • 0-941051-95-1 • paper •
  420 pages • $44.95

  A traditional grammatical approach to Latin,
  suitable for the first year or for intensive Latin.

Supplements to First Year Latin

  1989 • 0-941051-35-8 • paper •
  58 pages • $12.95

  Original play based on Roman comedy for
  first year students of Latin.

  2005 • 1-58510-156-7 • paper • 80 pages • $12.00

  | Buy this Book | 

  An illustrated collection of supplementary texts,
  mostly dialogue. There is a Latin-English  
  vocabulary list available free for download for this
  book which you can download by clicking here. 

  Caesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico

  2003 • 87-90696-06-9 • paper • 96 pages • $10.00

| Buy this Book | 

  From Books I (partial), IV, and V. Contains
  an index of names, and an index of vocabulary.
  Text and marginal notes are all in Latin.
  Contains part of Book I.

Vocabulary list for this book is available as a free download.
Click here.

For sample pages, click here.

  2009 • 978-1-58510-323-2 • paper •
  108 pages • $14.95

  Illustrated. For students new to Latin
  who want to incorporate speaking Latin into their study.

FREE! Multi-media interactive software!

  Plautus: Amphitryo

  2001 • 87-997016-7-7 • paper • 84 pages • $12.00
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  Abridged edition of the comedy with
  introduction and marginal notes in Latin.

Intermediate Latin Texts

Fabellae Latinae

2006 • 87-90696-15-8 • PDF • FREE   

 | Download Free PDF | 

  A collection of easy elementary texts, Fabellae
  Latinae, corresponding (lexically and
  grammatically) to chapters I–XXV in Familia
  Romana, similar and supplemental to Colloquia
  Personarum.

To satisfy the demand for more comprehensive exercises, Hans Orberg has made a version of Fabellae Latinae where nearly all the grammatical endings have been left out. You can download this version free here.

  2003 • 1-58510-079-X • paper •
  170 pages • $28.95

  Eyewitness accounts provide students with a
  compelling narrative outlining the history of
                         Rome during the late Republic.

  2006 • 1-58510-198-2 • paper •
  152 pages • $18.95

  A compilation of over thirty Latin letters with
  introduction, commentary and grammar review.

  P. Vergilii Maronis: Aeneis, Libros I et IV

  2008 • 978-87-90696-17-7 • paper • 80 pages • $12.95
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  A text comprised entirely of Latin covering
  Vergil's Aeneid Books 1 and 4. This text
  can be used in conjunction with
  Lingua Latina Part II: Roma Aeterna or any
  3rd year Latin course that studies Vergil.

Vocabulary list for this book is available as a free download.
Click here.

For sample pages, click here.

  Petronius: Cena Trimalchionis

  2000 • 87-90696-04-2 • paper • 64 pages • $10.00
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  Selection from Petronius’s Satyricon.
  Abridged edition with marginal notes in Latin.
  There is a Latin-English vocabulary list available
  free for download for this book.
  To download click here.

  Sallust & Cicero: Catilina

  2006 • 87-90696-11-5 • paper • 80 pages • $12.00   
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  Sermones Romani

  2004 • 87-90696-07-7 • paper • 64 pages • $13.00
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  Authors included are Plautus, Cato, Cicero,
  Phaedrus, Horace, Tacitus, Martial, Pliny,
  Aulus Gellius, and Lucas.
  Grammatical notes follow the Lingua Latina
  pattern, on the same page, and in Latin to encourage students to think in Latin.

  2005 • 1-58510-130-3 • paper •
  198 pages • $24.95

  A reader for Intermediate students at the
  HS/College level on the theme of women in
                         the ancient world.

Latin Commentaries

  2004 • 1-58510-043-9 • paper •
  110 pages • $24.95

  Selections from oral verse; Livius, Naevius,
  Ennius and others.

  2004 • 1-58510-091-9 • paper •
  164 pages • $18.95

  A commentary of the complete play
  by Plautus.

  1998 • 0-941051-67-6 • paper •
  160 pages • $19.95

  Complete and thorough preparation for
  Latin Horace AP.*

  2003 • 1-58510-088-9 • paper •
  206 pages • $19.95

  A Focus Reprint of the classic reader on Ovid.

  2008 • 978-1-58510-225-9 • paper •
  170 pages • $15.95

  First in a series of commentaries that will
  cover all of the Aeneid.

  2008 • 978-1-58510-149-8 • paper •
  262 pages •  8.5 x 11  •  $26.95

  Designed for courses at the high school level.

  2008 • 978-1-58510-226-6 • paper •
  175 pages • $15.95

  Second in a series of commentaries that will
  cover all of the Aeneid.

  2009 • 978-1-58510-227-3 • paper •
  180 pages • $15.95

  Third in a series of commentaries that will
  cover all of the Aeneid.

Latin Prose Composition

  2004 • 1-58510-090-0 • paper •
  192 pages • $24.95

  An exciting text bocused on thinking in Latin as
  the bridge between reading, writing and speaking.

  1999 • 0-941051-91-9 • paper •
  302 pages • $24.95

  The classic text reset and reprinted.

  1999 • 1-58510-005-6 • paper •
  222 pages • $12.95

  Both English-Latin and Latin-English exercises.

Latin Reference

  2001 • 1-58510-027-7 • paper •
  400 pages • $36.95

  2001 • 1-58510-042-0 • hardcover •
  400 pages • 6 x 9 • $42.95

  Edited, with new material by Anne Mahoney.
  Also available in hardcover.

  2007 • 978-1-58510-244-0 • paper •
  317 pages • $24.95

  Updated, with new material by Anne Mahoney.
  Also available in hardcover.

Latin for YOung Readers

  Mater Anserina

  Poems in Latin for Children with Audio CD

  Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg

  2006 • 1-58510-193-1 • hardcover with audio CD • 68 pages • $24.95 

  Twenty-eight poems, many of them favorites from Mother Goose, rendered in Latin, with the
  English translation on facing pages. Designed for early learners of Latin to recite or sing,
  with the particular aim of giving young students an introduction to Latin pronunciation.
  The book comes with an audio cd containing all twenty-eight rhymes.

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