History of the Latin Teaching Materials at Saint Louis University Website


  

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This site has been in operation since March 8, 1997. Below is a partial list of additions and improvements made during the time-span indicated, with the most recent dates listed first.

  

2008 - 2013 May

  

2013 May 25    Giovanni Costa's Latin Translation of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man is now available for the Nook. Note: This is not a pari-passu bilingual edition. The Latin translation is followed by the English original.

2013 May 22    Easy on the Odes: A Latin Phrase-Book for the Odes of Horace is now available for Nook and Kindle ereaders.

2013 May 18    An Acceleration Reader for the entire first book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations is now available for Nook ereaders. Acceleration Readers help students strengthen their ability to see and to understand in sequence the phrases that constitute the sentences.

2013 May 16    A fully revised and corrected pari-passu bilingual edition of Sallust's Catiline's War is now available for both Amazon and Nook ereaders. This edition also includes clean, unbroken presentations of the Latin text and the English translation for classroom use.

2013 April 28    An Acceleration Reader for Cicero's De Officiis, Book I, is available for Nook ereaders at this link. Note: The Nook Press is much friendlier than Kindle Direct Publishing to works that are entirely in the Latin language, so Acceleration Readers like this one will probably not be ported to the latter anytime soon.

2013 April 27    A Latin translation of Confucius' Analects is now available for Nook ereaders at this link.

2013 April 25    Particularly Good Latin, a modernized revision of a practical guide to Latin particles by Thomas Dyche is now available as an ebook at this link. It covers esssential material that no Latin teacher or student should be without. The full introduction, a sample of the contents, and a complete list of section headings are available in pdf form at this link.

2013 April 20    Acceleration Readers for Cicero's De Domo Sua and for Pliny the Younger's Letters, Books I and II, are now available at this link.

2013 April 19    Two more Acceleration Readers have become available for the Nook: Livy's Ab Urbe Condita XXIII (the aftermath of Cannae) and Seneca's Letters, Books I and II, both available at this link.

2013 April 18    L'Homond's De Viris Illustribus in Acceleration Reader format is now available in ebook form at this link.

2013 April 16    Several Latin and Latin-English titles are now available at Barnes and Noble for the Nook ereader at this link, including the easy Latin conversations of Corderius Colloquies Book II, annotated in Latin by Arcadius Avellanus.

2013 March 30    Of relevance to ancient literary and scriptural studies: The Origins of the Written Gospel in the Activity of Jesus of Nazareth. A short note presenting a distinctive hypothesis about the origins of the gospel form. Offsite link.

2013 March 24    Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in Latin. (by Henry Denison, 1869). A bilingual edition with preface by Claude Pavur, 2013. This ebook is available at Amazon and at Barnes and Noble. Sample quotations and their Latin translations are available here. The new preface is available here.

2013 March 14    John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I in Latin (by William Dobson, 1750). Offsite link: Academia.edu.

2013 March 05    Alexander Pope's Essay on Man in Latin (by Johann Joachim Gottlob am Ende, 1762). Offsite link: Academia.edu.

2013 February 26    Alexander Pope's Essay on Man in Latin (by Giovanni Costa, 1775). Bilingual edition. Offsite link: Academia.edu.

2013 February 26    The Hippocratic Oath in Three Latin Versions. Offsite link: Academia.edu.

2013 February 24    The Hippocratic Oath in Latin. By Albrecht Haller, 1771. With English translation. Offsite link: Academia.edu.

2013 January 13    John Harmar's Praxis Grammatica of 1623 is now commercially available at Amazon.com.   

2012 December 12    Easy on the Odes is now commercially available in hard copy at this link. The paperback contains the introduction, the phrase-book, a clean text of Horace's Odes for classroom use, and an alphabetical listing of all the adjectives used in the Odes. The various sections of this work remain available at this site.

2012 December 10    Adjectives in Horace's Odes: A Comprehensive Alphabetical List (html and pdf versions).

2012 December 09    A Latin Text of Horace's Odes for Classroom Use (html and pdf versions). This text is based upon what is available at latinlibrary.com. It has been edited, adapted (in spelling and line-groupings), and enhanced, partly in comparison with a variety of other editions.

2012 December 07    Easy on the Odes: A Latin Phrase-Book for the Odes of Horace (a pdf file). Also at academia.edu. All the adjectival phrases have been extracted and glossed in parallel with the original text of all four books of the Odes. A full rationale is presented in the Introduction.

2011 November 19    Of relevance to ancient literary and scriptural studies: As It Is Written: The Nature, Purpose, and Meaning of the Gospel of Mark. What is the purpose of Mark's Gospel? Can the author's intention be divined from the text itself? Does the text have a Roman provenance?

2011 November 19    Utility: LTM Micro-Mini Calendar for 2012 [1-page PDF file]. A super-minimalist calendar: essential monthly information for the year in a postage-stamp-sized area.

2011 October 29    "Re-Envisioning Classics As a Liberal Art," Electronic Antiquity 14:2 (May 2011) 1-20. Argument: Collegiate classics, under the sway of too severe a concept of professional philology, has drastically underplayed its educational hand in such a way that it has diminished its vitality, impact, and usefulness; yet this damage can be reversed — and liberal education transformed to a new level of effectiveness — by revising the concept of undergraduate programs in classical studies and by following a few key maxims.

2011 March 14    Word Study: Ut in the Letters of Seneca. For use as a praxis or as a source of examples (598 instances in 485 passages).

2011 February 06    Nietzsche Humanist, 2nd edition. Recommended for college-aged students and older. This new ebook edition is a corrected and revised version of the one that appeared from Marquette University Press in 1998. It offers a general reading and interpretation of Nietzsche's work in the context of the classical humanist tradition.

2010 December 18    Utility: LTM Micro-Mini Calendar for 2011 [1-page PDF file]. A super-minimalist calendar that fits essential monthly information for all the months of 2011 into a postage-stamp-sized area.

2010 November 13    Verbal Brilliance: Sample Verb Synopses. PDF format. Synopses of three verbs, with a list of 196 verbs for practice.

2010 October 16    What Difference Does the Conjugation Number Make? Indicative Passive Forms. Tables comparing all personal verb-forms across the conjugations horizontally.

2010 October 10    The Liveliness of Latin. For easy printing: the PDF version of a promotional chart comparing the liveliness of Latin to that of English.

2010 October 09    What Difference Does the Conjugation Number Make? Subjunctives. Tables comparing all personal verb-forms in the subjunctive mood across the conjugations.

2010 October 03    Perfect and Passive Two-Step. An easy rule for changing perfects into passive forms and for recognizing such forms.

2010 July 28    Word Study: Gratia, with over 600 examples from Cicero, prefaced by an easy-reading adaptation of the entry in Lewis & Short's dictionary.

2010 July 27    Word Study: Oportźre with examples from Cicero. Over one thousand instances of Cicero's use of this favorite word, prefaced by an easy-reading adaption of the entry in Lewis & Short's dictionary and a short guide to the word's usefulness in conversational Latin.

2010 July 17    New Verbal Brilliance condensed files. Thousands of verb exercises in paper-saving format, ready-to-go for class handouts. See Numbers 40-44 on the index-page. Teachers can select from and re-process these items.

2010 March 11    Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta. MP3 sound files for Sections 1-3 redone; Section 4 added. Listen to the text as you read.

2010 March 09    Cicero's De Domo Sua (1-30) in Acceleration Reader format (html). A challenging, passionate speech addressing the destruction of Cicero's house on the Palatine.

2010 February 14    Dative Usage in Cicero's Second Catilinarian Oration. Examples of Cicero's use of the dative case, with translations. PDF file also available for ready-to-go handouts.

2010 February 10    "Classical Humanism Has Everything to Do with Justice" [OFFSITE LINK]. An essay published in Electronic Antiquity.

2010 February 09    The Liveliness of Latin (Comparative Chart). How Latin remains relevant and vital.

2009 November 11    The Star-Spangled Banner in Latin. Two versions of the first stanza that can be sung to the music.

2009 November 07    Utility: LTM Micro-Mini Calendar for 2010 [1-page PDF file]. A super-minimalist calendar that fits essential monthly information for all the months of 2010 into a postage-stamp-sized area. Could be pasted to a bookmark, inside a binder, or around a pen. Two slightly larger alternate versions are included.

2009 November 06    Verb Tense Practice 1-10 [PDF FILE: 2-page ready-to-go handout] and Verb Tense Practice, 1-34, All Conjugations, including Deponents [PDF FILE: 6-page ready-to-go handout]. Written homework / assignment pages designed to fix certain tense-markers in students' memories for selected forms of verbs. Students are given English forms and asked to write the Latin equivalents.

2009 October 20    Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Deponent Verbs, Comprehensive Practice on Paradigm Verbs (all forms). 345 items, Latin to English and 345 English to Latin. Each list can serve as an answer-key to the other. Teachers might want to select and re-arrange items ad libitum.

2009 October 14-15    Acceleration Reader MP3 Audio: Cicero, Pro Archia (Sections 1-3). Listen as you read the text.

2009 October 11    Acceleration Reader: Cicero, De Officiis I Easy-reading format for the first book of one of Cicero's most important philosophical works. A bicolumnar classroom text with numbered lines is available in pdf-format from the index-page. 14,000 words. Last revised: November 3, 2009.

2009 September 19    Indirect Questions: Tenses [PDF file] One-page ready-to-go handout explaining the subjunctive-tense possibilities for indirect questions.

2009 August 29    Verbal Brilliance handouts [PDF file]: Condensed version of Conjugation 1 exercises. Saves paper and photocopying. Use regular looseleaf paper to write out the answers.

2009 August 05    Comprehensive Practice on Infinitives. 562 Latin-to-English and 562 English-to-Latin forms. The lists can serve as answer-keys for each other.

2009 August 04    Synopsis of Latin Infinitives and How to Produce Them.

2009 July 31    Synoptic View of All Third-Declension Patterns, a vertically-arranged comparative chart of nouns and adjectives that take third-declension endings.

2009 July 08-31    Extensive editing of most of the 300+ pages at this site for better appearance across browsers.

2009 February 21    LatinPraxis Sentence Practice 18 (cf. Wheelock 1-18). 125 items.

2009 February 08    LatinPraxis Sentence Practice 17 (cf. Wheelock 1-17). 159 items.

2009 February 03    Arbor: a flash movie (Rudīmenta in Mōtū).

2009 January 29    Nouns (cf. Wheelock 1-16): One-page ready-to-go PDF file for review of all nouns, with space to identify genders (m/f/n/c). Teachers can ask students to write out or to deliver orally a given case for some or all of these nouns.

2009 January 25    Oculus: a flash movie (Rudīmenta in Mōtū).

2009 January 20-23    Mālum: a flash movie (Rudīmenta in Mōtū).

2009 January 09    3400 Latin Adjectives, Comprehensive List, Arranged by Type. Also available: a PDF version in columnar format.   

2008 November 27    Beowulf: The Latin translation by Grķmur Jónsson Thorkelin, 1815.

2008 November 16    Verb Practice, English to Latin (all persons) Cf. Wheelock 1-11. Also available in PDF format. 846 items.

2008 November 16    Verb Practice, English to Latin: Simple tenses, 1st and 3rd sg. forms. Cf. Wheelock 1-11. 276 items. This one-page, ready-to-go handout in PDF format can also serve as an economical review of all the verbs taken in the first eleven chapters of Wheelock.

2008 July 23    LTM at SLU receives commendation from Finding Dulcinea: Librarian of the Internet as "a must-bookmark for any teacher of Latin."

2008 July 18-25    audio fileAdded mp3 audio files for Seneca Epistula I.5 and I.6.

2008 July 17    audio fileMP3 sound files for the Latin of some of Seneca's Letters improved, and put into classical pronunciation. Embedded audio player allows for listening directly from the webpage.

2008 July 04    Epistula Ad Familiares XIV.4. A bicolumnar, bilingual handout in PDF format (2 pages). This letter is an extraordinarily passionate and personal communication from Cicero to his wife and children in a time of crisis. "I only wish, my dear, to see you as soon as possible and to die in your arms...if I have you I shall not think myself wholly lost."

2008 January 05    When Does the -i- Appear in the III-io Conjugation? A one-page pdf handout comparing the regular third conjugation forms with the III-io forms. (See the Grammar and Vocabulary Helps page.)

2008 January 04    Super-Minimalist Micro Calendar for 2008 A postage-stamp-sized calendar covering the twelve months of the year.

  

2007

  

2007 November 02- December 30    Reading Acceleration Machine 4.05 wins five stars at Best Freeware Download, Completely FREE Software, Best Vista Downloads, and Best Software 4 Download.

2007 September 10   Verbal Brilliance in Latin: First Conjugation Deponent Forms [PDF format, 16 pages: See Number 40b.]. Ready-to-go handouts for mastering deponent verbs of the first conjugation, using twenty example words. Teachers can print directly from this pdf file.

2007 July 14 - 28    Reading Acceleration Machine 4.05, with Keyboard Shortcut Guide and an Illustrated Screenshot Page. RAM is a freeware tachistoscope for Windows: it allows you to flash simple text files line by line at the rate of speed and in the font-format that you set, with provisions for variable screen-blanking times between items and additional pause-times per word (so that longer lines can remain on the screen for a proportionately longer times). New features in this major upgrade include random review, automatic random review, looping, multiple bookmarks, an acceleration function, the ability to copy particular words or lines displayed to another file, item-elimination in the loaded file, larger possible time-settings, completely automatic installation and de-installation, and more. You can use RAM for comprehension-practice, vocabulary-learning, proof-reading, and memorization or rehearsal of texts.

2007 July 19   Charles E. Bennett's New Latin Composition Exercises (pp. 247-260). A program written in BBC BASIC for Windows by Johannes Patruus (for downloading or opening directly here). This program provides an easy way to improve your oral compositional skills. The Latin answers to 320 short and simple sentences are available at the press of the spacebar. The file is also listed on the Paedagogica page under Language-Learning Software.

2007 May 17   Translation of Sallust's Catilinarian War: Bicolumnar Dual-Language Format, with PDF version.

2007 May 17   Latin Numbers Oral Test Windows Program by Johannes Patruus - Open this file to run the program in a separate window. You can also save this file to your hard drive and run it directly from there (on Windows machines only).

  

2006

  

2006 July 15   Diploma Latin: Degree Titles

2006 May 20   Comparative and superlative adjective examples added to explanation page

2006 May 16   Third i-stem nouns added to comprehensive adjective pages

2006 April 29   Gesta Romanorum. (Complete.) A fourteenth-century collection of anecdotes. These provide Latin reading that is easy, interesting, and plot-oriented. The contents are not entirely suitable for all ages. (72,000+ words.)

2006 April 08   LatinPraxis Verb Practice 24: All Synopsis Forms, English to Latin. This exercise presumes a synoptical overview of all the major Latin forms, as presented in Verbal Brilliance in Latin. 340 items.

2006 April 08   Site map revised. The structure of the site, graphically represented.

2006 April 08   Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Synopsis Conventions Illustrated. A table showing the English phrases used to call for the Latin equivalents in a verb synopsis page. (Select Number 51 in the Verbal Brilliance Index for the one-page pdf handout.)

2006 March 04  Additional Pages for Verbal Brilliance (Numbers 47-50). Includes a blank one-page template for verb synopses according to grammatical categories; a blank one-page template using conventional English equivalents; comprehensive verb practice for paradigm verbs, using only 3d singular and synopsis-forms; and comprehensive verb practice for paradigm verbs, using all forms.

2006 February 04  Some Leading Benefits of Latin (and Classical) Studies.

2006 January 14  Number Practice, from Arabic Numerals, 1001 exercises with a reciprocal answer sheet Number Practice, from Latin Names, 1001 exercises, and handout-ready PDF-files.

2006 January 12  Lhomond, De Viris Illustribus, 2d Edition, Revised Format.

2006 January 08  Acceleration Readers: Revised Format. Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta re-segmented.

  

  

2005

  

2005 December 20  Cato's Monostichs: Second Revised Translation. The translation has been revised and pdf handout versions made available.

2005 December 13  All Conjugations: Verb Synopses Showing Connections to Principal Parts. PDF five-page handout.

2005 November 25  Verb Practice: Perfect Tenses, English to Latin (810 items).

2005 September 25  Adjective-Noun Phrases: Practice Page. PDF one-page handout.

2005 September 20  -US-A-UM Adjectives: Explanation Page. PDF one-page handout.

2005 September 20  -US-A-UM Adjectives: Practice Page. PDF one-page handout.

2005 September 10  Syntactical Flexibility in Latin. PDF one-page handout revised.

2005 September 10  The Idea of Case and Declension. PDF one-page handout revised.

2005 August 26  Cato's Monostichs: Revised translation. The translation has been revised and a one-page pdf handout version has been added.

2005 August 15  Everyday Latin. Ready-to-go one-page pdf handout illustrating contemporary uses of Latin.

2005 August 02  Zottoli's Latin Translation of the Analects of Confucius (1879), Books 4-10. 13,000+ words added. Now complete.

2005 August 01  Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms, second expanded edition. Over 18500 items, from a 5.3 million-word corpus.

2005 July 01  Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books X, XI, XII.

2005 June 30  Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books VIII, IX.

2005 June 29  Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Books VI, VII.

2005 June 28  Marcus Aurelius's Meditations in Latin - Book V.

2005 June 27  72 Colloquies of Maturinus Corderius (Mathurin Cordier), adapted and extensively annotated in Latin by Arcadius Avellanus (30,000 words total). Avellanus's glosses will be especially interesting to those who want to teach Latin in Latin.

2005 June 14  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Sample Verb List by Conjugations with all Principal Parts

2005 June 14  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Full Cumulative Exercises by Conjugation [12 pages, 2480 exercises] - For testing all conjugational forms randomly, using 20 sample words.

2005 June 13  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the First Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises]

2005 June 10  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Third-io / Fourth Conjugations [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises]

2005 June 09  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Third Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises]

2005 June 08  Verbal Brilliance in Latin: Exercises for the Second Conjugation [23 pages, 1300 ready-to-go exercises]

2005 May 10  The Idea of Case and Declension [REVISED]

2005 May 03  Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms. Increased to 12425 items.

2005 May 01  Acceleration Reader: Cicero's Pro Archia Poeta

2005 April 30  Latin Vocabulary: High-Frequency Latin Word-Forms. Approximately 8800 items.

2005 March 13  Verb Synopsis Practice: Primary and Perfect Forms, Active and Passive [PDF FILE]. One-page handout, using English phrases rather than grammatical categories.

2005 February 14  Verb Review: Primary and Perfect Tenses, Active, English to Latin. 2100+ Exercises.

2005 January 06  Ratio Studiorum (selections and table of headings). A sample of early modern Latin taken from a classic text in the history of Latin pedagogy (and Western/World educational history).

  

  

2004

  

2004 November 28   Verbal Brilliance: Preface revised.

2004 November 28   Verbal Brilliance: Review of Verb Forms. Review or quiz material covering all tenses, moods, voices, verbals, and conjugations (but not all persons or deponent forms), randomly arranged.

2004 November 19   Seneca, Letters 41 and 64

2004 November 14   Verbal Brilliance: Synopsis exercise page for Conjugations 2-4

2004 October 19   Master the Subjunctive Forms (Cf. Wheelock 30, 31, 32): A revision of a popular summary chart, showing the rules for forming all the common subjunctive forms.

2004 October 15   Conditional Clauses (Cf. Wheelock 33)

2004 June 30   Lhomond's Epitome Historiae Sacrae: Bilingual Acceleration Reader Edition: A full phrase-by-phrase translation is now available for all 209 stories in pdf-format. This type of presentation can be useful for giving beginners an experience of reading Latin and for getting them to focus on meanings in phrase-units.

2004 June 18   Verbal Brilliance in Latin. Additional pages on all personal endings, with 14,200+ exercise-items on the first conjugation, including deponents (90 pages in two pdf-files.)

2004 June 07   Verbal Brilliance in Latin: A Modular Plan for Building Verb Mastery and Learning the Language. Ready-to-go handouts (pdf) with 2800+ exercise-items.

2004 June 01   Lhomond's Epitome Historiae Sacrae : vowel-quantities corrected.

2004 May 18   Form the Future Tense (Active) for III, III-io, IV in Two Steps (cf. Wheelock 8, 10)

2004 May 01   Summary of Points for All Adjectival Comparisons (cf. Wheelock 26-27)

2004 April 10   Ablative Absolutes (with 180+ examples)

2004 March 27   Shakespeare's Sonnets in Latin (14,000 words)

2004 March 18   Monosticha Catonis (Cato's Monostichs), with a new translation

2004 March 14   Introductory Epistle to Christopher Wase's Methodi Practicae Specimen, a Latin pedagogical device from 1660

2004 March 02   Livy, Ab Urbe Condita XXIII: Low-segmentation Acceleration Reader (14,000 words), with Index and Introductory Note

2004 February 25   Latin Verbs: Master the Passive Forms, Perfect Tenses: With examples for all conjugations, translated

2004 February 19   Latin Verbs: Master the Passive Forms, Primary Tenses: With examples for all conjugations, translated

2004 February 03   Restoring Cultural History: Beyond Gombrich : an essay from 1991 bearing on the issue of master-narratives and classical humanistic education.

  

  

2003

  

2003 November 29   LatinPraxis Answers: Sentence Practice 5 (revised)

2003 November 24   Essential Rationale for Latin, Greek, and Classical Humanities (revised)

2003 October 25   Zacharias Pearce's Longinus, On the Sublime : An early 18th-century neo-Latin introduction to and translation of a classic of literary criticism. 15,000+ words.

2003 August 11-13   Sallust's Bellum Catilinae : Acceleration Reader re-segmented; navigation added.

2003 July 22-23   Latin audio: Epitome Historiae Sacrae : mp3 files for Stories 5-12.

2003 July 15   Latin audio: Epitome Historiae Sacrae : mp3 files for Stories 1-4.

2003 July 15   Latin audio: Seneca's Letters 1.4 : mp3 file, 1813k

2003 July 13   LatinPraxis Answers: Sentence Practice 4 (revised)

2003 July 13   Three soundfiles improved (Seneca's Letters 1-3)

N.B.: a post-classical pronunciation ("contemporary") is used.

2003 July 11   Lhomond's Epitome Historiae Sacrae : Bible stories in simplified Latin fully revised and corrected.

2003 July 02   LatinPraxis Answers: Case-Endings for Declensions 1-2

2003 June 21   Lhomond's Epitome Historiae Sacrae

A 14,000-word elementary-intermediate reader

2003 June 11   SWAV movie: hortulâna

2003 June 10   New Section: SWAV, with two vocabulary-acquisition movies

2003 June 08   LatinPraxis Answers: Second Declension Endings in -UM

2003 June 08   LatinPraxis Answers: Sentence Practice 3

2003 February 26   LatinPraxis Answers: Second Declension Endings in -US/-R

2003 February 26   LatinPraxis Answers: Sentence Practice 2

2003 February 16   Rudimenta in Motu flash movie : Puncta colôrâta

2003 February 16   Rudimenta in Motu flash movie : Varia puncta

2003 February 15   Rudimenta in Motu flash movie : Tria puncta

2003 February 14   Rudimenta in Motu flash movie : Surgit et crescit

2003 January 30   LatinPraxis Answers: First Declension Endings (revised)

2003 January 24   LatinPraxis Answers: Sentence Practice 1 (revised)

2003 January 24   LatinPraxis Sentence Practice 1 revised

2003 January 22   LatinPraxis Answer-Key begun

  

  

2002

  

2002 December 14   Deponent Verb Participles

2002 December 11   Participle morphology page revised and expanded

2002 December 8   Participle explanation-page revised and expanded

2002 December 04   Site-map

2002 November 25   John Harmar's Praxis Grammatica (1623) Preface translated. This work is now complete and can be used as a beginning-to-intermediate reader.

2002 November 25   John Harmar's Praxis Grammatica (1623) Items 501-608 corrected and translated.

2002 November 17   John Harmar's Praxis Grammatica (1623) Items 401-500 corrected and translated. These include a great variety of religious, philosophical, and proverbial sayings, as well as some prosaic advice like "Wash your hands and face with cold water regularly, and wipe them off with a clean towel" (443).

2002 September 25   John Harmar's Praxis Grammatica (1623) (now with at least 400 items translated)

2002 June 25   Adjective-noun synopsis expanded and revised

Comprehensive adjective-noun example-page expanded and revised

2002 May 18   Comprehensive Deponent Verb List by Conjugations

2002 May 18   Page on Accentuation-rules revised

2002 May 16   Third-Declension I-stems page revised and expanded

2002 May 05   Confucius in Latin, Analects, Book 3

2002 May 03   Confucius in Latin, Analects, Book 2

2002 May 02   Confucius in Latin, Analects, Book 1

2002 May 01   Marcus Aurelius in Latin, Book 4

2002 April 26   Latin audio: Seneca's Letters 1.3 MP3 file, 826k

2002 April 24   Sentence Practice 24: Passive Periphrastics (68 items)

2002 April 20   Latin audio: Seneca's Letters 1.2 MP3 file, 724k

2002 April 14   Latin audio: Seneca's Letters 1.1 MP3 file, 637k

2002 February 24   Timelines for Roman History, 753 B.C. to 565 A.D. (Sandys)

2002 February 16   Passive Personal Endings, Simple Tenses, I-II

2002 February 12   Translation key provided for page on Relative Pronouns

2002 February 05   Relative Pronouns: Examples of Antecedents with Case Differences (Cf. Wheelock 17)

2002 February 02   Marcus Aurelius in Latin, Book 3

2002 January 28   Marcus Aurelius in Latin, Book 2

2002 January 17-19   Sentence Practice 14 (210 items)

2002 January 14   Third Declension I-Stem Patterns (Cf. Wheelock 14)

2002 January 11   Latin Composition (Doehner, 1846-1847): Plutarch's Life of Cicero, XXVII-XLIX (4900 words)

  

2001

  

November 19   Latin Composition (Doehner, 1846-1847): Plutarch's Life of Cicero, I-XXVII (6000 words)

2001 November 14   Piscês (Flash movie)

2001 November 11   Celerius and Lîtus (Flash movies)

2001 November 6   Mons and Decem Montês (Flash movies)

2001 November 6   Decem Guttae (Flash movie)

2001 November 5   Decem Puncta (Flash movie)

2001 November 5   Monte Dêscendit (Flash movie)

2001 November 4   Adjective-Noun Agreement, including -ius genitives (cf. Wheelock 1-9)

2001 November 3   New Section: Rudimenta in Motu Two movies to support elementary Latin acquisition (Requires Flash)

2001 October 22   Some Color-Names (Requires Flash)

2001 October 22   Visual Prepositions (Requires Flash)

2001 October 13   Seneca's Letters, Books I-II, Acceleration Reader fully revised

2001 October 2   History of Latin Pedagogy: Schwickerath, "The Method of Teaching in Practice" (1903) (Full chapter and bibliography)

2001 September 3   More Kinship Terms (Diagram 2)

2001 September 2   Some Kinship Terms (Diagram 1)

2001 August 29   Comparison of Adjectives: Regular Comparative and Superlative Forms

2001 August 18   Active Personal Verb Endings

2001 August 17   Conjugation and Imperatives page expanded

2001 August 7   Identify Conjugations and Form Present Active Imperatives

2001 June 29   Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book I, in Latin

2001 June 24   Third Declension Neuter Nouns: Easy Vocabulary Expansion (41 items)

2001 June 12   Third Declension Masculine Nouns: Easy Vocabulary Expansion (151 items)

2001 June 12   Third Declension Feminine Nouns: Easy Vocabulary Expansion (586 items)

2001 May 29   Socrates' Apology in Latin

2001 May 23   Cebes' Tablet: A Hellenistic / Renaissance Pedagogical Classic

2001 May 17   Entire Lhomond Reader - RAM version

2001 May 6   Timeline Illustrating Indicative Tenses

2001 May 6   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 7 (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 May 6   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 6 (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 May 5   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 5 (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 May 3   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 4 (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 May 2   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 3b (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 May 1   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 3a (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 April 29   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 2 (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 April 28   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 1b (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 April 26   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus 1a (Fully revised, 2d ed.)

2001 April 19   Revision of Clues to Verb Forms

2001 April 9   High-Segmentation Acceleration Reader Text, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria (selections) pdf text only

2001 April 1   High-Segmentation Acceleration Reader Text, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria (Prooemium and 1.1) pdf text only

2001 March 11   Master Latin Participles

2001 March 10   Understanding Participles in Latin

2001 March 8   Interrogative Pronouns and Adjectives

  

2000

  

2000 December 9   Wordlist for Aesop's Fables (425+ items) in html and pdf formats

2000 October 16   Additional Items for Sentence Practice 7 (77 items)

2000 October 14   Adjective-Noun Agreement Practice (1655 items)

2000 October 13   Sentence Practice 6 (254 items)

2000 October 7   Form the Future for I, II

2000 October 7   Form the Imperfect for I, II

2000 October 1   New Section: Syntax Praxis

2000 October 1   Syntax Anticipation: Accusative First with pdf version

2000 September 25   Second-Declension Neuter Vocabulary-Expansion (226 items)

2000 September 24   Sentence Practice 5 (210 items)

2000 September 21   Second-Declension Masculine Vocabulary Expansion (156 items)

2000 September 16   First-Declension Vocabulary Expansion (300 items)

2000 September 3   Deponent Verb List (421 items)

2000 July 23   Low-segmentation Reading: Ludovicus Rex Francorum (Legenda Aurea

2000 July 16   Navigation-bar for the Declension-learning pages

2000 July 9   Clues to Verb Forms (html)

2000 July 9   Clues to Verb Forms (pdf)

2000 June 28   Comprehensive Deponent Verb-Practice (470 items)

2000 June 27   Comprehensive Irregular Verb-Practice (1708 items).

2000 June 23   Comprehensive Verb-Practice 2 (890 items).

2000 June 20   Comprehensive Verb-Practice (752 items).

2000 June 20   Verbals added to synopses page.

2000 June 18   Wheelock 6th edition vocabulary list ( html and pdf ).

2000 June 18   Wheelock 6th edition verb list, with principal parts ( html and pdf ).

2000 June 17   Completely revised vocabulary grids for Wheelock's 6th edition.

2000 April 25   Third-Person Plural Synopses.

2000 April 22   Recognizing Present Subjunctives (688 items).

2000 April 16   Translating Tenses in Accusative-with-Infinitive Constructions.

2000 April 11   Sentence Practice 25: Accusative-with-Infinitive Constructions (654 items).

2000 March 4   Fifth Declension Endings.

2000 March 4   Noun Practice 22: Fifth Declension (175 items).

2000 February 21   Fourth Declension Endings (M/F).

2000 February 21   Fourth Declension Endings (N).

2000 February 18   Noun Practice 20: Fourth Declension, with Adjective Review (270 items).

2000 February 16   Verb Practice 21.1: Passives, Primary Tenses, Conjugations 3, 4, 3-io, Active to Passive (576 items).

2000 February 16   Verb Practice 21.2: Passives, Primary Tenses, Conjugations 3, 4, 3-io, Passive to Active (576 items).

2000 February 14   Verb Practice 19.1: Producing Perfect Passives (1980 items).

2000 February 14   Verb Practice 19.2: Perfect Passives to Actives (2646 items).

2000 February 13   Forming Perfect Passives from Perfect Actives.

2000 February 9   Latin Composition: Gettysburg Address (Kleist).

2000 February 8   GRASP Explanation Handout.

2000 February 6   Verb Practice 18: Passives, Primary Tenses, Conjugations 1-2 (792 items).

  

1999

  

1999 November 25   Sentence Practice 13 (304 items).

1999 November 25   Noun Form Practice (655 items).

1999 November 14   Sentence Practice 12 (240 items).

1999 November 11   How to Form the Perfect Tenses, Active.

1999 November 10   Verb Practice: Perfect Tenses (864 items).

1999 November 9   Sentence Practice 11 (213 items).

1999 October 29   Sentence Practice 10 (285 items).

1999 October 17   Advice for Learning Vocabulary.

1999 October 16   Sentence Practice 9 (369+ items).

1999 October 12   Sentence Practice 8 (208 items).

1999 October 5   Practice: Words with Genitive Singular in -ius (572 items).

1999 October 5   Sentence Practice 7 (258 items).

1999 September 28   3d Declension Endings (M/F) and (N).

1999 September 28   Practice: 3d Declension Case-Endings (250 items).

1999 September 16   Sentence Practice for 1st and 2d Declensions (190 items).

1999 September 15   English to Latin exercises for 1st and 2d Declensions (190 items).

1999 September 15   English to Latin exercises for 2d declension words in -um (90 items).

1999 September 14   English to Latin exercises for 1st declension (150 items) and 2d declension words in -us / -r (70 items).

1999 September 12   2d Declension Chart and Practice-page, correlated with Wheelock 4

1999 September 6   Sentence Practice 3 (304 items)

1999 July 10   Seneca's Letters, Book II, Low-segmentation Acceleration Reader

1999 July 4   Reading Acceleration Machine 3.5

1999 June 13   Reading Acceleration Machine 3.0

1999 May 30   Seneca's Letters, Book I Low-Segmentation Acceleration Reader

1999 May 6   Key Resource Award at Links2Go

1999 March 12   Grammar Explanation Page: Differences in Third Declension Patterns

1999 March 9   AbleMedia's CTCWeb awards its Silver Chalice for Reading Acceleration Machine 2.0

1999 March 6   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 7: Actiaca Pugna in Acceleration Reader format

1999 March 4   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 6: Second Civil War in Acceleration Reader format

1999 February 28   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 5: First Civil War in Acceleration Reader format

1999 February 7   Two New LatinPraxis Explanation and Practice Pages (correlated with Wheelock 1-8)

1999 February 6   Eight New LatinPraxis Explanation and Practice Pages (correlated with Wheelock 1-8)

1999 February 2   New Grammar-Helps Section: LatinPraxis Wheelock-Linked Explanation and Practice Pages

  

1998

  

1998 September 10   Forming the Nominative Plurals, Declension 1-3 (Revised 09-14)

1998 August 26   The Idea of Case in Latin

1998 July 19   RAM (Reading Acceleration Machine) version 2.0

1998 July 13   Reading Acceleration Machine, version 1.5:

1998 July 9   Reading Acceleration Machine update 1.01

1998 May 27   Pliny low-segmentation readers revised

1998 May 26   Selection from the Vulgate: Bi-lingual Reader

1998 May 25   Adjectives: Third-Declension Ablative Singulars in -I

1998 May 25   Paedagogica Index Page

1998 May 25   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 4

1998 May 24   History Page

1998 May 23   Index Page for Latin Readers

1998 May 23   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 3b

1998 May 22   New html-version grammar helps

1998 May 22   Lhomond's De Viris Illustribus, Part 3a

1998 May 12-24   Major Restructuring of the Site

1998 May 11   Anecdotes of Antiquity in pdf format

1998 May 10   Several New Grammatical Handouts

1998 May 9   Index Page for Grammar and Vocabulary Helps

1998 May 7   Index Page for Acceleration Readers

1998 April 29   Syntactical Compendium for Caesar De Bello Gallico III (PDF and HTML)

1998 April 29   Caesar De Bello Gallico III: Acceleration Reader (PDF and HTML)

1998 April 24   "Upgrading Latin Pedagogy" (essay)

1998 March 26   Grammar handout: Forming Subjunctives

1998 March 22   Fables from Aesop

1998 March 16   Reading Acceleration Machine software for Win 95 / NT 4.02001

  

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