Saturday, April 30, 2011
Allen et al.: Select Orations of Cicero
Select Orations of Cicero by William Francis Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge & Joseph Henry Allen (1896)
This monumental book (almost 700 pages long) contains a lengthy introduction, followed by Roscius, Verres, Pro Lege Manilia, Catilinarian Conspiracy, Archias, Milo, Parcellus, Ligarius, and Philippica XIV, for a total of 259 pages of Latin reading with notes and vocabulary.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
White: The Fables of Phaedrus
The Fables of Phaedrus, Books I and II, by John T. (1872)
The 33 fables of Book I and the 9 fables of Book II, with vocabulary.
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Thursday, April 28, 2011
Allen & Allen: Gallic War
Gallic War by William Francis Allen and Joseph Henry Allen (1886)
This includes all seven books of the Latin texts with detailed notes to the Latin text, numerous illustrations and a vocabulary. There is also a life of Caesar in English and detailed military notes.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Harkness: Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Select Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero by Albert Harkness (1881)
This book contains all four Catilinarian speeches, plus Pro Archia, De Imperio Pompeii, Pro Marcello, Pro Ligario, Pro Rege Deiotaro and In Antonium Philippica I, with notes and vocabulary.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Ferguson: Introductory Latin Delectus
Introductory Latin Delectus by George Ferguson (1843)
The reader begins with simple sentences, followed by a section of "Anecdotes, Maxims and Fables in Prose and Verse," beginning on p. 11, running through p. 56, followed by a detailed vocabulary.
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Clement: Latin Selections
Latin Selections by Willard Kimball Clement (1891)
This is a selection from classical authors beginning with archaic poetry and prose and running up through late antique writers, appx. 400 pages, but with no notes or vocabulary.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
D'Ooge: Latin for Beginners
Latin for Beginners by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1911)
The reading materials begin on p. 196 and include the labors of Hercules followed by P. Cornelius Lentulus: The Story of a Roman Boy. The text is marked with macrons.
See the MACRONAGANZA blog for the readings from this book digitized and illustrated.
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Drake: Selected Fables of Phaedrus
Selected Fables of Phaedrus with Indicated Quantities by Joseph Horace Drake (1894)
This book presents almost all of the fables of Phaedrus (although with some censorship; why dogs sniff each other's butts is omitted, for example), with macrons. There is no vocabulary.
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Churchill: L'Homond's Viri Romae Illustres
L'Homond's Viri Romae Illustres by Milton E. Churchill (1900)
The book contains notes and vocabulary on the same page with the text, and the Latin is marked with macrons.
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Allen & Greenough: Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline
Sallust's Conspiracy of Catiline by Allen & Greenough (1901)
The text is marked with macrons, with detailed notes and vocabulary.
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Barss: Sallust and Cicero
Third year Latin for Sight Reading - Sallust and Cicero by John Edmund Barss (1911)
The selections from Sallust include both Catiline and Jugurtha, and the selections from Cicero are from the Catilinarian speeches, Verres, and Roscius, along with selections from the letters and from De Senectute. The text is marked with macrons.
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Rolfe & Dennison: A Junior Latin Book
A Junior Latin Book by John Carew Rolfe and Walter Dennison (1898)
The text consists of fables, tales from Roman history, lives of Caesar, Cicero and Augustus, and seven lives of Cornelius Nepos (Miltiades, Themistocles, Pausanias, Epaminondas, Hamilcar, Hannibal and Caro), plus Caesar's Gallic War, Books I-II. There are notes and vocabulary, and the text is marked with macrons.
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Smiley & Storke: The Beginner's Latin Book
The Beginner's Latin Book by James Brady Smiley and Helen Landon Storke (1898)
There are readings throughout the text, and the text is marked with macrons. There are vocabulary lists for the readings, as well as the vocabulary in the back.
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Schlicher: Latin Plays for Students
Latin Plays for Student Performances and Reading by John Jacob Schlicher (1916)
There are seven plays - Saccus Malorum, Tirones, Exitus Helvetiorum, Cicero Candidatur, Coniuratio, Dido, and Andromeda, along with notes and vocabulary. The text is marked with macrons.
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Reynolds: Latin Reader - Nature Study and Easy Stories
Latin Reader: Nature Study and Easy Stories by Alphaeus Bruce Reynolds (1918)
There are passages of nature study (the earth, sun, moon, light, stars, day and night, the winds), followed by sketches of Roman life, and then the stories of Arminius, a Suebian boy, with an appendix of grammar materials and a vocabulary in the back. The text is marked with macrons.
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Maclardy: The First Oration of Cicero against Catiline
The First Oration of Cicero against Catiline by Archibald A. Maclardy (1902)
The book contains the Latin text, along with a literal interlinear translation plus a more idiomatic English translation in the margins. All words are parsed, and there are grammar notes. The Laitn text contains macrons.
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D'Ooge & Eastman: Caesar in Gaul
Caesar in Gaul by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge and Frederick Carlos Eastman (1918)
The book includes the Latin text of Ritchie's Argonatus, Nepos' Life of Hannibal, a life of Caesar in Latin, plus Books I-IV of the Gallic War and selections from Books V-VII, and then selections from Book III of the Civil War, along with grammar notes and a vocabulary. The text is marked with macrons.
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Greenough, D'Ooge & Daniell: Caesar's Gallic War I-IV
Caesar's Gallic War I-IV by James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, and Moses Grant Daniell (1904)
There is an extensive introduction, followed by the Latin text, detailed notes, and vocabulary. The text has macrons.
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D'Ooge: Elements of Latin
Elements of Latin by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1921)
This is an elementary Latin book with dialogues and stories from Greek myths and Roman legends. In addition to readings in the lessons themselves, there are supplementary materials that begin on p. 263 and run through 299, including a Latin play about Perseus and Andromeda. The book contains macrons, with a Latin-English vocabulary in the back.
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Collar & Gleason: Via Latina, an Easy Latin Reader
Via Latina, an Easy Latin Reader by William Coe Collar and Clarence Willard Gleason (1897)
The book contains the tale of the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Seven Kings of Rome, Fables, and a Life of Caesar and a Life of Alcibiades. There are notes and vocabulary, and the text is marked with macrons.
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D'Ooge: Easy Latin for Sight Reading for Secondary Schools
Easy Latin for Sight Reading for Secondary Schools by Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1897)
There are selections from Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles, L'Homond's Urbis Romae Viri Inlustres and Gellius' Noctes Atticae. There are notes along the bottom of the pages, but no vocabulary. The text is marked with macrons.
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Ward: Selections from the Anecdotes of Valerius Maximus
Selections from the Anecdotes of Valerius Maximus by Charles Henry Ward (1897)
The book contains a selection of anecdotes with vocabulary and notes. There are appx. 40 pages of Latin reading.
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Scudder: First Latin Reader
First Latin Reader by Jared Waterbury Scudder (1897)
There are readings throughout the lessons of the text, clearly indicated in the table of contents. The text is marked with macrons.
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Gleason: The Gate to Vergil
The Gate to Vergil by Clarence Willard Gleason (1898)
The book contains the text of the Aeneid, Book I with notes, tips on scansion, and vocabulary. The text is not marked with macrons, but there are scansion marks throughout.
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Finch: Caesar's Gallic War, Book 1
Caesar's Gallic War, Book 1 by James B. Finch (1898)
The book contains the Latin text with a literal interlinear translation along with a more idiomatic translation. All words are parsed, and there are grammar notes. The text contains macrons.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Bushnell: Readings from Latin Verse
Readings from Latin Verse by Curtis Clark Bushnell (1908)
The book includes selections from Ennius, Lucretius, Catullus, Vergil, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucan, Martial, Juvenal, as well as medieval Latin poetry. There are detailed notes in the back, but no vocabulary.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Cayzer: Britannia
Britannia, a Collection of the Principal Passages in Latin Authors that Refer to this Island, by T.S. Cayzer (1878)
The sources include Caesar, Livy, Cicero and Tacitus, among others. There are appx. 80 pages of Latin reading, followed by Latin-English vocabulary.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Valpy: Latin Delectus
Valpy's Latin Delectus, with notes by J.T. White (1881)
The Delectus begins with single sentences, then short bits of verse with paragraphs of prose, with the selections growing longer and longer, with notes beginning on p. 133, followed by a Latin-English vocabulary.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Church: Latin Prose Lessons
Latin Prose Lessons by Alfred John Church (1862)
The continuous readings, in Part II of the book, begin on p. 10 and continue through p. 104, with increasingly long stories drawn from ancient history, both Roman and Greek, as well as some Biblical stories and also some folktales. There are no macrons in this book, and there is also no Latin-English vocabulary - just the readings.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Allen: Latin Primer
Latin Primer: A First Book of Latin for Boys and Girls by Joseph Henry Allen (1870)
The readings begin with Biblical stories, followed by dialogues from Corderius and Erasmus, selections from Hiawatha, fables of Aesop, and then stories from Roman History and also from the Middle Ages. There is a complete vocabulary in the back of the book.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Gardiner: A Latin Anthology for Beginners
A Latin Anthology for Beginners, by George B. Gardiner and Andrew Gardiner (1804)
This is a collection of verse readings, beginning with introductions to hexameter verse, elegiacs, and then the iambic senarius, followed by a selection of classical Latin verse. There are detail notes and a Latin-English vocabulary.
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Sykes: First Readings in Latin
First Readings in Latin by George Frederick H. Sykes (1880)
This books contains readings from Roman authors, both prose and poetry, and from Eutropius and Justin. The book is inspired by the methods of Ascham's Schoolmaster. The vocabulary is arranged with separate lists for each reading selection, containing words the students are meant to learn by heart, with more obscure vocabulary glossed in the texts themselves.
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Scott: First Latin Lessons
First Latin Lessons by Harry Fletcher Scott (1922)
This elementary Latin textbook includes some intriguing readings. There is a play about Horatius on p. 163, Circe on p. 187, Polyphemus on p. 198 and the return of Odysseus on p. 206, along with a play called Medicus on p. 220, with a Latin-English dictionary in the back. There are macrons throughout.
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Hodges: Supplement to Smith's Latin Lessons
Supplement to Smith's Latin Lessons by Archibald Livingston Hodges (1918)
These short readings are linked to the lessons in Minnie Louise Smith's Latin Lessons textbook. There is a Latin-English vocabulary in the back, and there are macrons in the stories. The Latin readings are on pp. 1-25. The Ulysses story is included in full, and looks to be the same found in Ritchie and reprinted also in the Gradatim and other sources.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Weld: Latin Lessons and Reader
Latin Lessons and Reader by Allen Hayden Weld (1856)
The fables begin on p. 160, followed by the usual Roman History (from Jacobs), followed by Anecdotes starting on p. 164, followed by selections from Cicero on p. 194, with a comprehensive vocabulary in the back.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Jones: First Lessons in Latin
First Lessons in Latin by Elisha Jones (1897)
The readings begin on p. 161 with fables, the usual Roman history on p. 165, and then a life of Julius Caesar (adapted from Eutropius) on p. 171, followed by notes and general vocabulary. The text is marked with macrons.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Leighton: First Steps in Latin
First Steps in Latin by Robert Fowler Leighton (1885)
The reading lessons begin on p. 382 with the fables, followed by a Life of Caesar on p. 383, and then an epitome of Caesar's Gallic War, followed by notes and a comprehensive vocabulary in the back. The text is marked with macrons.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Evans: First Lessons in Latin
First Lessons in Latin by John Evans (1823)
The readings begin on p. 14, with stories from the Bible and from ancient history, with fables on p. 41, followed by more passages from Roman history starting on p. 53.
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Sunday, April 10, 2011
Adams: Lectiones Selectae
Lectiones Selectae by John Adams (1816)
The full title reads "Lectiones Selectae, or Select Latin Lessons in morality, history and biography, adapted to the capacity of young beginners." The book contains appx. 100 pages of Latin reading, taken from religious and secular texts.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Sanford-Scott: A Junior Latin Reader
A Junior Latin Reader by Frederick Warren Sanford and Harry Fletcher Scott (1922)
The reader contains selections from Roman history, beginning with Aeneas and leading all the way up to the end of the Republic, with appx. 100 pages of Latin text, including vocabulary and notes. The text is marked with macrons.
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Harkness: Second Latin Book
Second Latin Book by Albert Harkness (1861)
Harkness has prepared a "historical reader" following Jacobs (the very part of which is copied in Fowle), with readings in Roman and Greek history, with a grammatical appendix and exercises, notes on the readings and a comprehensive vocabulary.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
Greenough-D'Ooge-Daniell: Second Year Latin
Second Year Latin by James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge, and Moses Grant Daniell (1901)
The readings begin with stories, fables and letters, followed by biography (Cyrus, Marius, Caesar, Hannibal) and mythology (Ulysses), and then poetry (from Phaedrus, Ovid, Catullus, Plautus, Terence, Vergil, Horace and Tibullus). The rest of the book consists of selections from Caesar's Gallic War. The text is marked with macrons.
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Bingham-McCabe: Latin Reader
A Latin Reader by William Bingham and William Gordon McCabe (1886).
As per the usual Jacobs adaptation, this book has fables, mythology, an Epitome of Roman History, Geography and Nations of Antiquity, and then some extracts from Caesar's Gallic Wars, with a comprehensive vocabulary and notes. The text is marked with macrons.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Bryce: First Latin Book
First Latin Book by Archibald Hamilton Bryce (1892)
The reading selections consist of fables by Phaedrus, followed by excerpts from Roman history starting on p. 137. The passages here do not match the traditional text from Jacobs.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Andrews: First Lessons in Latin
First Lessons in Latin by Ethan Allen Andrews (1856)
The reading lessons start on p. 160 with the Life of Joseph, followed by Aesop's Fables on p. 175, and then Dick Whittington and His Cat starting on p. 181, with a comprehensive vocabulary in the back.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Allen: Latin Selections
Latin Selections by William Francis Allen (1873)
The books contains selections from Caesar's Gallic War, Quintus Curtius's Life of Alexander, Nepos's Life of Hannibal, and Sallust's War with Jugurtha.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
McClintock: Second Book in Latin
A Second Book in Latin by John McClintock (1859)
The reader consists of extracts from Caesar, followed by extracts from Cicero, and then a section called Narrations, starting on p. 70 and then a section called Descriptions, Characters and Philosophical Pieces starting on p. 90 through p. 125. There are notes in the back, along with a comprehensive vocabulary.
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Jacobs: Latin Reader
Latin Reader by Friedrich Jacobs (1833)
The fables from Aesop begin on p. 21, with mythology beginning on p. 36, and then anecdotes of eminent persons on p. 44, which is then followed by an Outline of Roman History starting on p. 56 (the first part is reproduced in Fowle), followed by The Geography and the Nations of Antiquity starting on p. 83. There then follow notes and a comprehensive vocabulary in the back.
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Howard: Latin Selections
Latin Selections by Albert A. Howard (1915)
The passages are chosen to illustrate "public life in the Roman commonwealth in the time of Cicero." The passages are a page or two at most in length, with English titles and a source citation at the end of each passage. There is not a vocabulary listing at the end of the book, but there is a list of abbreviations.
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