Language Education
Some time ago a fellow-teacher brought the _Fabulae Faciles_ to my notice, and I have since used two of them each year with my class of beginners in Latin with increasing appreciation. Indeed, I know nothing better to introduce the student into the reading of connected narrati...
Postrídié éius diéí Ulixés ex hác ínsulá quam celerrimé discédere in animó habébat. Circé tamen cum haec cógnóvisset, ex odió ad amórem conversa omnibus precibus eum óráre et ob...
6. Chapter 622. occíderint. The perfect subjunctive is sometimes used in result clauses after a past tense in the principal clause. This is contrary to the general principle of the sequence...
1. Chapter 1Some time ago a fellow-teacher brought the _Fabulae Faciles_ to my notice, and I have since used two of them each year with my class of beginners in Latin with increasing apprec...
7. Chapter 7mátúrandum sibi, 'they ought to hasten,' more literally 'haste ought to be made by them'; mátúrandum (_esse_) is the impersonal passive, and sibi the so-called dative of the age...
3. Chapter 3Ut autem mánés Stygem hóc modó tránsierant, ad alterum veniébant flúmen, quod Léthé appellábátur. Ex hóc flúmine aquam bibere cógébantur; quod cum fécissent, rés omnís in vítá g...
4. Chapter 4Hís rébus cógnitís Médéa rem aegré tulit, et régní cupiditáte adducta mortem régí per dolum ínferre cónstituit. Hóc cónstitútó ad fíliás régis vénit atque ita locúta est: "Vidét...
2. Chapter 2Herculés tantum scelus expiáre mágnopere cupiébat. Cónstituit igitur ad óráculum Delphicum íre; hóc enim óráculum erat omnium celeberrimum. Ibi templum erat Apollinis plúrimís d...
10. Chapter 10pábulum, -í [páscó], n., _food, fodder_. paene, adv., _almost, nearly_. palaestra, -ae, f., _wrestling-place, gymnasium_. pálus, -í, m., _stake_. palús, -údis, f., _swamp, marsh...
8. Chapter 8baculum, -í, n., _stick, wand_. balteus, -í, m.., _belt, girdle_. barbarus, -a, -um, _barbarian_. beátus, -a, -um, _happy, blessed_. bellicósus, -a, -um [bellum], _war-like_. be...
9. Chapter 9habeó, -ére, -uí, -itus, _have, hold; consider_. habitó, -áre, -áví, -átus [freq. of habeó], _dwell, inhabit_. Hádés, -ae, m., _Hades_. haereó, haerére, haesí, haesúrus, _stick;...
11. Chapter 11ubi, adv., _where_; conj., _when_. ulcíscor, ulcíscí, ultus, _avenge_. úllus, -a, -um, _any_. últerior, -ius [comp. from últrá, _beyond_], adj., _farther_. Ulixés, -is, m., _Uly...