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First Year Latin Texts

familia romanaLingua Latina:

A Universal Latin Series

Hans Ørberg

A complete series of Latin texts in the natural method. Students 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.

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new steps

New Steps in Latin

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

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

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latinIntroduction to Latin, Revised First Edition

Susan Shelmerdine

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!

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Supplements to First Year Latin

 

aluricular meretricula  Auricula Meretricula 2e

  Ruby Blondell and Ann Cumming

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

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

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book image By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and 
  Graffiti for Students of Latin

  Matthew Hartnett

  2008 • 978-1-58510-294-5 • paper •
  120 pages • $18.95

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book imageColloquia Personarum

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

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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

 

book imageCaesaris Commentarii De Bello Gallico

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

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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.

 

book image  Nunc Loquāmur:
  Guided Conversation for Latin

  Second Edition

  Thomas McCarthy

  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!

FREE ONLINE EXERCISES

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book image  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


 

book imageFabellae Latinae

2006 • 87-90696-15-8 • PDF • FREE   

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  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.

 

book image  Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitness to the
  End of the Roman Republic, 2e

  R.C. Knapp and P.L. Vaughn

  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.

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book image Latin Letters:   Reading Roman Correspondence

Cecelia Luschnig

2006 • 1-58510-198-2 • paper •  152 pages • $19.95

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

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book image 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.

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book image 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.

book image  Sallust & Cicero: Catilina

  2006 • 87-90696-11-5 • paper • 80 pages • $12.00   
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book image  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.

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book image Worlds of Roman Women

Ann Raia, Cecelia Luschnig,   and Judith Lynn Sebesta

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.

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Latin Commentaries


book image  Archaic Latin Verse

  Mario Erasmo

  2004 • 1-58510-043-9 • paper •
  110 pages • $26.95

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

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book image  Cicero: Pro Caelio

  Elizabeth Keitel and Jane Crawford

  2010 • 978-1-58510-138-2 • paper •
  135 pages • $19.95

  This volume is the Latin text with
  vocabulary and notes.

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book image  A Horace Reader for Advanced Placement*

  Henry V. Bender

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

  Complete and thorough preparation for
  Latin Horace AP.*

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book cover  Selections from Ovid

  Charles W. Dunmore

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

  A Focus Reprint of the classic reader on Ovid.

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book image  An Ovid Reader

  Ed DeHoratius

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

  Designed for courses at the high school level.

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book image  Plautus: Amphitryo

  Anne Mahoney

  2004 • 1-58510-091-9 • paper •
  164 pages • $19.95

  A commentary of the complete play
  by Plautus.

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book image  Vergil: Aeneid Book 1

  Randall Ganiban

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

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

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book image  Vergil: Aeneid Book 2

  Randall Ganiban

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

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

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book image  Vergil: Aeneid Book 3

  Christine Perkell

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

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

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Latin Prose Composition


 

book image  Readings and Exercises
  in Latin Prose Composition

  Milena Minkova and Terence Tunberg

  2004 • 1-58510-090-0 • paper •
  192 pages • $26.95

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

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book image  Latin Prose Composition

  North and Hillard

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

  The classic text reset and reprinted.

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book image  Elementary Latin Exercises

  A.E. Hillard and C.G. Botting

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

  Both English-Latin and Latin-English
  exercises.

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Latin Reference


 

book image  Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar

  J.H. Allen and J.B. Greenough

  2001 • 978-1-58510-027-7 • paper •
  400 pages • $38.95

  2001 • 1-58510-042-0 • hardcover •
  400 pages • 6 x 9 • $48.95

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

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book image  Essential Latin Grammar:
  Bennett's Grammar Revised

  Anne Mahoney

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

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

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Latin for YOung Readers


book image 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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