Beginning Latin Poetry Reader: 70 Selections from the Great Periods of Roman Verse and DramaMcGraw Hill Professional, 5. 1. 2006 - 320 strán (strany) Embrace your Roman muse! As a learner of Latin, you want to experience the Roman world by reading its writers in their original language. But you may be unsure where to begin in the classical canon or you may worry that your Latin skills are insufficient to tackle authentic texts. Requiring only a grounding in the basics, Beginning Latin Poetry Reader lets you explore the rich and diverse range of Latin verse, including epics, comedies, satires, lyric poetry, and even graffiti! Inside you'll find seventy selections from authors of the early Republic such as Plautus and Terrance as well as those of the Golden and Silver Ages such as Vergil, Horace, Ovid, and Juvenal--all supported by helpful footnotes and English translations. This book also includes a clear overview of Latin syntax and the metrics of its verse, a glossary of all Latin words found in the readings, and a time line showing the historical and literary context of each author. Lose yourself in:
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... person) led a happy life. Arcadia, the central region of southern Greece, was believed to be inhabited by happy rustics who led simple, uncomplicated lives. The saying was also used by people looking back on a happy and carefree youth ...
... person can eat someone who is absent—Tranio is per; versely misinterpreting Grumio's use of comedo. 15 urbanus scurra a city (lit., urhan) smart aleck (scurra ~ae M.); véro reall — Grumio is sarcastically referring to Tranio's witty ...
... person; the subject of clicé, I, is the tombstone itself; paullus short; adsti (adsté fire) and perlege (perlegé ~ere) are both 2 sg. imp. act., stand by and read [it] through. 2 hic here; sepulchrum -i N. grave; haucl : n6n; this line ...
... person than afriend [who is] avaiiahle when wanted.) Flamma furno est proxima. PLAUTUS Curtulio 5 3 Where there's smoke, there's fire. (lit., Flamejbllows very closely on (i.e., is next to) smoke.) Quod tuom est meum est; omne meum est ...
... person read ing. Papyrus rolls were not suited to desks as we know them. The readers problems were not confined to manipulating the roll, how~ ever, as conventions of presenting a text were different from those today. Scribes wrote in ...