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I am currently doing work on LLPSI: Pars II and found a mistake in the Answer Key that comes with the Teacher's Materials. For Capitulum XLI Pensum A (de generibus verborum), you are supposed to turn the active constructions into passive ones or vice versa.

The last sentence is given in the textbook like this: Magister te laudat, me reprehendit. The correct answer should be Tu a magistro laudaris, ego reprehendor, but the ...

Hello everybody I am new here and I have a question. I am finishing up my Latin II class this semester, and I was wondering when I should take Greek. I have a fascination with the classics, and I would like to be able to read and write Greek. Thanks.

So I'm interested in learning one (or both actually) of the ancient languages to be able to read philosophers work and some of the ancient plays, poems and novels. Also, as I'm interested in food history, to be able to read historical cookbooks and documents could be useful (most are probably in latin).

Ancient Greek is a language that I have an emotional attraction too. I think it sounds and looks beautiful. Latin on the ...

Greetings TK, I am trying over and over again to make a first post but in vain. Does this one work?

Is Lingua Latina per se Illustrata written solely in Latin? Is it suitable for beginner's studies? Looking at the preview at Amazon, I could hardly see an English word. Though I could guess the meanings of the first chapters (because of the common roots), it is not easy then on.

I am thinking about using Lingua Latina and Wheelock together, most probably with Lingua Latina being the basis.

Thank you.

Do the audio materials of the two courses listed in the subject cover the whole texts of them? If not, how much do they cover? At the moment, I am not able to sample those Latin courses before purchasing them, so any help will be greatly appreciated.

Is there any good Ancient Greek textbooks with Audio?

Or is there any audio suitable for beginner's studies (instead of recordings of complete prose)?

I mainly refer to Homeric Greek, and Attic the second. The only book I know of with good audio is Assimil Grec Ancien, which teaches Attic Greek.

Thank you.

I am interested in the subject of these lines from the Aeneid - I give the Latin with an English translation / suggestion as to what the subject-object relationship is.... My translation conflicts with that in the Loeb edition (Fairclough). 1. is my translation and 2. is Fairclough's

I am interested in the role of fortuna which Fairclough has as an object and I have as a subject.

Quare agite, o tectis, iuvenes, succedite nostris! ...

I'm reading Lysias I (On the Murder of Erathostenes) in the edition by Geoffrey Steadman and encountered the following difficulty

Lys 1.23
εἰδὼς δ᾽ ἐγὼ ὅτι τηνικαῦτα ἀφιγμένος οὐδένα καταλήψοιτο οἴκοι τῶν ἐπιτηδείων, ἐκέλευον, συνδειπνεῖν

(As I knew that, arriving at that hour, he would find none of his circle at home, I invited him to dine with me)

Steadman says in his notes that καταλήψοιτο is an aorist optative, but surely that has to ...

It seems to me that the difficulty of the text is something akin to transmission errors in telecommunications. At the end of Cassandra's final speech, the last few lines are obscure and the obscurity passes over into the first four lines of the following Chorus. Then suddenly on line 1335 everything becomes marvelously readable. This looks like a corrupted packet of transmission which crosses a boundary between Casandra's last words and the Chorus.

It could ...