![]() ![]() At first Livy’s prose is gently adapted, but the main part of the book contains unadapted texts by Livy, Aulus Gellius, Nepos, Sallust, Cicero, and Horace. A description of the city of Rome is followed by a prose version of Vergil’s Aeneid I-IV, with some important passages in the original, and Livy’s Book I supplemented with extracts from Ovid. In Part II, Roma Aeterna, the subject is Roman history. At the end of the book there is a survey of inflections, a Roman calendar, and a word index, Index vocabulorum. The 35 chapters form a sequence of events in the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century ad.Įach chapter is divided into 3 or 4 lessons ( lectiones) and consists of several text pages followed by a grammar section, Grammatica Latina, and three exercises, Pensa. Part I, Familia Romana, covers the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of some 1500 words.
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