Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
[Transcriber's Notes: (i) the preposition 'de' (+ abl.) is alway with 'long e', i.e. 'dē'. This has been corrected once (cf. 2 lines before 'Fābula dē Thrasyllō.') (ii) it uses once 'Romae' instead of 'Rōmae'. This has also been corrected. (iii) the text uses 'īmmō' (long i) t...
[Transcriber's Notes: (i) the preposition 'de' (+ abl.) is alway with 'long e', i.e. 'dē'. This has been corrected once (cf. 2 lines before 'Fābula dē Thrasyllō.') (ii) it uses once 'Romae' instead of 'Rōmae'. This has also been corrected. (iii) the text uses 'īmmō' (long i) throughout; dictionaries consider 'immō' (short i) correct. (iv) the text uses 'pīstrīnum' (long first i), dictionaries (like OLD) consider pistrīnum (short first i) correct. This has be corrected.]
'At tuba terribilī sonitū taratantara dīxit' et gladiātōrēs intrāvērunt. Ad imperātōrem versī 'Moritūrī tē salūtant' clāmāvērunt et statim ācriter pūgnātur. Aliī rētiāriī, mirmi...
1. Part 1[Transcriber's Notes: (i) the preposition 'de' (+ abl.) is alway with 'long e', i.e. 'dē'. This has been corrected once (cf. 2 lines before 'Fābula dē Thrasyllō.') (ii) it uses...
4. Part 4C. Canius, eques Rōmānus, cum sē Syrācūsās ōtiandī (ut ipse dīcere solēbāt) nōn negōtiandī causā, contulisset, dīctitābat sē hortulōs aliquōs velle emere, quō invītāre amīcōs, e...
3. Part 3Thrasyllus valdē amābat Charitēn, eamque in mātrimōnium dūcere cupiēbat. Hoc autem nūllō modō facere poterat, nam Charitē Tlēpolemō cuīdam iam nūpserat, marītumque suum māximē d...
2. Part 2Post aliquot diēs dum per vīcum eundem ambulāmus, titulum dēreptum vīdimus, iānuam apertam; audīvimus philosophum aliquem condūxisse. 'Ō stultum' inquam, 'mox eum temeritātis pa...
6. Part 6Māter mente turbāta irruit. B (1) 1. Quid rogāvit māter mea ubi patrem interpellāvit? 2. Quis erat Dāvus? 3. Cūr nōn facere potuit māter quīn Dāvō crēderet? B (2) Nārrā quid Cur...