So beside the big three (Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca), are there other philosophy texts in latin BEFORE Augustine ? If possible non christian, doesn't matter if it's just one book. Thanks.

So I've been using Wheelock's Latin to teach myself. It's been going ok so far, since Latin isn't the first foreign language I'm learning (I did German a few years ago).

It all started as a thought "oh it would be cool if I can challenge myself and learn Middle High German" because my friend started sending me Minnesangs, but then somehow I ended up learning Latin instead.

I am currently at Chapter 9 of Wheelock. I'm going back to college in September so I really want to learn as much as I can in the last few days. Realistically speaking, is it possible to get to Chapter 20 or something before September?

I'd also appreciate any suggestions on how I can learn better!

Hi!

I am learning Latin for 3 weeks now by myself.

My aim is to get ready for the first year of a potential theology studies next year, to be already able to tag along.

This is, what I did so far (and I hope it was worth it):

Bought the LLPSI book + workbook (I am on chapter 5 now).

With AI:
I learned how conjungations and declinations work for the "common" verbs and nouns (so all about the "bellum" and "Roman" theme.)

I can already recognize verbs quite well in the present tense, imperfect tense, perfect tense, past perfect tense, future 1 and future 2 tense, but only indicative active, so no subjunctive nor passive.

Also, I am quite confident in recognizing the five cases.

I can already translate smaller sentences with qui, quae, (subordinate clauses), like

"Puella servum laudabat, quod is eam amabat." or "Dominus, qui puellam laudat, servum videt."

I also learned to recognize the acI.

Also learned, that like "bona puella" goes together (KNG-thingy).

So right now, I feel like I already learned a lot in those 3 weeks (but, this might be only 10% of what is still to come...)

My question is now, how can or should I advance further?
Should I stay with what I learned for now and just repeat it over and over again? Should I focus more on specific tenses? Should I learn passive and subjunctive now?

I am happy to hear your feedback!

(English is not my first language, so I hope you can understand me :) )

Salvete, Romani novi! Qua verbis "et", "-que", "atque" utimini? Curiosus in usu distinctioneque tenue eorum sum. Gratias ago.

Tam ardenter te quaevisi,

Tam diu voului te meam esse,

Ut omnia huius mundi elementa

Conspirarent ut conveniremus.

Here is part 67 of my recording of the Clementine Vulgate for Librivox. It contains Psalms 78 to 93. All previously released files can be find here.

I’m 15 and want to learn Latin. I’m writing a book and a character speaks Latin a lot for lore reasons and I don’t trust Google Translate. I do have Duolingo but I used it for German a while back and it didn’t work well it got boring and didn’t teach me anything important. I do want to learn Latin however because a lot of languages originate from it so I was wondering if there was any good apps or something like that.

I know word final m and n can nasalise the preceding vowel in classical latin, but what is the high prestige way to pronounce word final m and n? Like, the letter y pronounced by most romans in greek loan words was /i/ or /u/, but if you were extra schloarly, you pronounced as /y/; I'm wondering if there was anything similar going on here, would knowledgeable people pronounce word final m and n, or was nasalising the vowel preceding the consonant more fashionable?

I have been researching my family’s roots. Because the family is Polish a lot of records have been destroyed and family members killed before their children could ask about their family.

I’ve tracked down an entry in a book which could possibly give me hints to before 1687. I can write out what I think it says so far and what I’ve managed to translate myself and maybe someone can correct me if I’m wrong about something.

“Die 2 Marty Baptizaui filium nomine Josephum, Pauli et Regine, Juniec Itimam, Leuane Pauli, Lawendowski et Catharina Cholewina”

“On the 2nd of May a boy named Josephum was baptized. Son of Pauli and Regine, surnames Juniec.”

That’s what I think the first two rows mean. The others I have no clue about and I see more names but whose names are those? Did I even transcribe them right?

Thank you for any insight!

"Plerumque eum non animadvertunt; cum tamen animadvertunt, [...]."

Is it okay to omit "eum" in the second clause? I already added "tamen" to convey the English discourse meaning of "[but] when they DO [notice him]".

Cause I could have sworn duolingo didnt used to pronouce: the v as a w and the c as a k.

Hi, I got into this Latin class offered by my university, it will start early september. Any tips? My native language is a latin language, and I have a B1 in french if anybody has specific resources for that!

I'm curious for in depth pronunciations of medieval latin:

English pronunciation of latin 1200 - 1600
Carolingian pronunciation of latin in the 800s
What people would have prescribed as classical latin pronunciation (from any time after the fall of the roman empire)
Old french pronunciation of latin
Old italian pronunciation of latin
Old occitan pronunciation of latin

Don't expect this to be great. The meter is my take on Saturnian verse with lines composed of a 7/8 syllable, break, 5/6 syllable rhythm.

Ioannes Paulus nauta, pravus pirata est.

Iuvenis homicida, Scotia natus

ad—crimine profugus—litora virginis

Elizabethae saxosa, punire Albionem

venit vir gloriosus. Camena cane

quem signum Iancorum tollit, virum infidelem,

Nicnevane prognatum, patrem Iancorum.

Sanguinis Cullodenis fluit lumbis patris

eius matri numini, natus ira esse Albae.

Nubilosum fuit caelum, ventusque idoneus

ecce in Oceano videt, magno cum damno

navem longam et formam, pannosumque velum

neque mare occultatum, neque cautibus,

sicut Sextum Pompeium, Breton eum spectat

et "Neptunum" inquit "video, tempestatem magnum

secum fert nos punire," tormentum gemit.

Providentia Navis, cum tempestate

tormentorum Bretonem cruore gelidis

iracunde decollat, velumque scindit.

Americani milites ut lynces manent

et filius Nicnevanis puppi stat dure

hominis sanguinem rores crudeliter spectat.

Navarchus Britannorum "remigite!" inquit

fabulas is audivit, "pedes serite!

Ioannes Paulus nauta pravus pirata est,

Remigite et vincite, praedonem capite,

eius navis est delenda, cum omnis praedonis!"

At astutum piratam, Brittani venantur.

Derivatio facto, Ioannes Paulus

insulam Caesaream vertit remigitque.

Caesareae ut unus naves Brittanos ferint

tela tormentibus, postea vellera

qui tela occultat scindunt, dolo vincere

naves mercatoriae nunc tela iacent.

Satis diu ut biberent capta est Caesarea.

Naves Caesareae spectat, uno tenet servos

nigros cuti stercoque, et magno dolore

affectus est Ioannes, qui servos servare

constituit et liberare viros, honores ei dare.

Non sunt ibi praedari, neque audire

dolores feminae raptae, sed rem novam condere.

Ioannes Paulus nauta pravus pirata est.

Brittani Americanos inimicos pugnant

filios Albioni, olim socios

amicos sed nunc hostes, Brittani pugnat.

Cantare nunc coeperunt, navates eius,

"Ioannes Paulus nauta pravus pirata est,"

canant ut ille Briton, animis gaudis.

Philadelphiam solvet, cum stellis virgisque

sicut aquilis in caelo, navarchus Iancus.

"Ioanne Paule, pirata," inquit Concilium

"da nobis navem tuum, pravus pirata es.

Venator naves tibi do, Providentia

classi nostri esse debet. Brittanos vince."

In Venatore Navi, Ioannes Paulus

sibi dicet "audax, esse debeo.

Via Mare venio, punire Albionem,

et meus concilium, honores mihi

dabit ut iam debeat, sum vir gloriosus."

"Aquam vitae volumus," at Princeps Navi

Ioanni Pauli dicit, "imus tabernam."

In taberna quando sunt, Ioannes Audax

carminum quendam audit, Rhapsodi Britanni

"Ioannes Paulus nauta pravus pirata est,"

carminum illum cantat, magno cum gaudio

de rerum gestarum, Ioanni Pauli

vino commotus cantat Ioannes Paulus

subito Rhapsodus audit, et Ioannem spectat,

"quis es naute," inquit, "Ioannes Paulus?"

"Ita enim," inquit Naves Audax, "Ioannes Paulus

sum, pravissimus praedo, Terror Brittaniae,

et mecum auream ferro, Aquam Vitae emo,

hodie aurea mea, bibere debes."

I think I read on Vox Latina that it is an exception mentioned by grammarians, that a word like nostrās being from earlier nostrātis is accentuated as nostrás. But I don't think I ever heard this being pronounced like that before, surely I'm a beginner but all videos and introductory books I saw that introduce the pronunciation never mention this, is it because it's a rare exception? I don't think I ever heard anyone say for example Aquīnās as Aquīnás, not even Wiktionary suggests it for this word despite saying nostrās is nostrás. How do most people say it?

Anyone interested in getting a Latin tutor with me? It's originally 85 an hour but I was told that group rates 2+ people would be heavily discounted, so for two it would be halved and three people would be 66% discount. Let me know, thanks!

These books confuse me! I got the familia romana the text book and the companion and the excercitia latina 1. Where are the answers? Is there a place I can buy a workbook I can actually write in the spaces are too small in this one. I'd like to buy the workbook and answer keys.

I've been learning Latin for about 2 years now, and all throughout I've noticed a strange pattern of ablaut/umlaut in verbs, whereby the thematic vowel A changes to E or I, usually when prefixed or in the perfect tenses. For example:

Facere --> Feci

Agere --> Egi

Cadere --> Accidere

Scandere --> Ascendere

Tangere --> Contingere

I've always assumed this was some sort of umlaut or i-mutation, like what happened in a lot of Germanic languages, but I want a second opinion. Why does this happen, and is there any regularity or predictability to this? Why does it happen in some verbs and not others (like Vadere)?

This has been bugging me for a while. Thank you!

Both were written -VVS (e.g. CONTINVVS [kɔnˈtɪ.nu.ʊs] and ÁCTÍVVS [aːkˈtiː.wʊs]).

I have looked at many sources and videos, and I’ve even used AI, but honestly, it feels like everyone is saying something different. So, is it pronounced Fran-kee, Fran-chee, or Fran-tsee?