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Brief guide to LLPSI, the best way to learn Latin - whether you’re a beginner or already know the
grammar, but want to learn to understand the language itself, this will tell you how to do it. More
learning resources in The Atrium. Say hello, report broken links, get help, chat in Latin at our
Discord server: discord.gg/Latin.
English-Latin
Smith & Hall on Latinitium , searchable scans by Godmy, at hathitrust, PDF, b&w PDF by W. Smith & T.D. Hall (1871) - the best one.
Riddle & Arnold by J.E. Riddle, T.K. Arnold, C.E. Georges (1872) - the second best one, PDF searchable, with more warnings about
common usage mistakes than the competition.
Cassell’s Latin Dictionary - see below.
Latin-English
Lewis & Short , on Perseus-Tufts, on Latinitium, with reverse (En-La) search, full-text searchable #2 by C.T. Lewis, C. Short (1879) -
an English translation of/iteration upon Forcellini. Functionally the best one, but the structuring takes getting used to. If too
overwhelming, try the Elementary version over at Logeion. Marks syllable weight, not vowel length - and even that unreliably, esp.
muta cum liquida. When Perseus tells you a word doesn’t exist, add “1/2/n+1” to the search request.
Oxford Latin Dictionary: 1st ed. PDF OCR, 1st ed. DJVU, non-OCR but bookmarked by et. al. (1968-82, 2012) - the current
academic standard. Wonky OCR. Focuses on precision in discerning between meanings and ordering them in the likeliest
logical/etymological order - vastly superior to L&S in this regard. Doesn’t bother with hidden vowel length at all.
Cassell’s Latin Dictionary: Latin-English and English-Latin - 1886 ed. PDF, 1959 ed. DJVU - by J.R Beard, C. Beard, J.R.V.
Marchant, J.F. Charles, D.P Simpson (1854, 1886, 1959) - “reliable, compact and adequate for the needs of all save the specialist.”
Both versions OCRed.
Wiktionary by anonymous - a venerable if not altogether reliable resource that knows most forms and mostly correctly marks hidden
vowel length.
Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus by Niermeyer (1976) - a medieval Latin–French/English dictionary.
Latin Monolingual
Thēsaurus Linguae Latīnae by Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften et al. (1894 - ∞) - my dudes, it has come to pass! TLL aims
to account for every single usage of every single Latin word, from the earliest inscriptional evidence up till the 7th c. It tracks
evolutions of usage, spelling, and pronunciation; derivations and neologism; and, wherever possible, developments into Romance.
Database search still paywalled but is convenient for quick vowel length check - use the “Jump to” box.
Lexicon Tōtīus Latīnitātis by E. Forcellini, J. Facciolati, J. Furlanetto, F. Corradini (1771, 1896), digitalised by Godmy - poorly
organised & requires advanced level in Latin to even navigate, but very extensive & fully digital - get that Ctrl+F ready. Glosses in 6
languages.
Wagner’s Lexicon Latīnum online, PDF by F. Wagner (1878) - with focus on phraseology and doesn’t quote sources. Ordnung &
readable but scanned, limited in extent & medieval-leaning. Glosses in French.
J. B. Gallicciolli's edition of Jacobus Facciolati's edition of Calepinus' "Septem linguārum calepīnus, hoc est, lexicon latīnum” - hardly
the best of scans, but it's the perfect middle ground between the unreadable behemoth of Forcellini (from which this edition borrows),
the medieval-flavoured phraseology and interpretations of Wagner, and the lesser monolingual editions. Glosses in 6 languages.
This version uniquely complete with PDF contents for easier navigation.
Thēsaurus Linguae Latīnae by Robert Estienne (1573, repr. 1740–43) - perhaps the most intelligible La-La dictionary, but poorly
organised and outdated if not outright wrong at times.
Glossārium mediae et infimae latīnitātis by Du Cange et al. (1678, ?) - Medieval Latin in Medieval Latin.
Dē differentiīs verbōrum by Ausonius Popma (1852) - explains the differences in meaning between selected word pairs and groups,
but is quite limited in scope.
Thēsaurus erōticus linguae latīnae by P. Pierrugues (1833).
Corpus Glossāriōrum Latīnārum by G. Goetz (1849–1932) - always trust the medievals. Still, a valuable resource. For the contents of
the volumes see the description on archive.org.
Saxō: Vādemēcum in opus Saxōnis et alia opera Dānica by F. Blatt & R. Hemmingsen (1998) - fully digitalised & searchable.
Saxō: non-searchable HTML version.
Lexicon Ūniversāle Historico-Geographico-Chronologico-Poētico-Philologicum, digitalised but imperfect by J.J. Hofmann (1677-98) -
encyclopaedia ūsque adhūc amplissima omnium quae Latīnē conscrīptae sunt. Quattuor librī ūnusquisque ~M pāginārum.
Deutsch
Antibarbarus der lateinischen Sprache: Band 1, Band 2 by J. Krebs & J. Schmalz (1905) - scolds you for not being classyical enough
in your word usage and style, all in German - what could be better?
Neulateinische Wortliste - ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700.
Lexicon Latīnum Hodiernum by Peter Lichtenberger (1994–) - something like the German equivalent of Adumbratio.
Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch 2nd ed. by G. Köbler - La-De as .doc and .html. Can also be found on Corpus
Corporum. De-La (Neuhochdeutsch-lateinisches Wörterbuch) in long or shortened form.
Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter by G. Köbler - La-De as .doc volumes by letter, De-La
as an .html file.
Frühmittellateinisches Rechtswörterbuch by G. Köbler.
Misc.
Academic - multilingual dictionaries and encyclopedias (esp. good for Russian). Click on dictionary name to search there.
Glosbe - a multilingual translation database which, surprisingly, isn’t half bad for Latin - just don’t trust it.
Lexica Latina interretialia apud Vicipaediam - Classic and modern Latin vocabulary resources in various languages.
Linguaeterna - La-Ru словарь И.Х. Дворецкого с полнотекстовым поиском.
Grand dictionnaire de la langue latine by Freund, Theil & Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana (1855): Tome 1, Tome 2, Tome 3.
🔸 Erster Theil, Zweiter Theil, 1+2 combined in an uglier scan - by far the best one in my opinion.
🔸 Dictionary of Latin Synonymes by L. Ramshorn, F. Lieber (1841) - an abridged English translation of the above.
Etymology
Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages by M. de Vaan (2008) - the last, if not the definitive word.
Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Latine (1, 2 and 4-page scans), on archive.org (4-page scan) (orig. 1932, rev. 1985) by A.
Ernout & A. Meillet - gives overviews of derivatives, meanings, their developments & sometimes the Romance forms.
Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch by A. Walde & J. Hofmann (1906, 1938) - just had to be longer than the French one.
Dictionnaire Étymologique Latin by M. Bréal & A. Bailly (1906).
A later, 9-th, edition of the same in worse quality (1918).
Etyma Latina: An Etymological Lexicon of Classical Latin by E. R. Wharton (1890) - very scanty and outdated.
A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies by R. Maltby, starring Isidore of Seville (1991) - all the explicitly attested etymologies of Latin
antiquity, covering glossaries and scholia as well as standard ancient etymological source-works.
Laterculī vōcum Latīnārum: vōcēs Latīnās et ā fronte et ā tergō ōrdināndās cūrāvit O. Gradenwitz (1904).
Collections of Resources
Filedumps
Ultimate Latin Language Learning Pack Torrent, mirror - get this first thing and spend a few nights just opening the files. Admittedly,
most of the books are useless, and many are on culture and history, but still includes many of the staples.
17 GB of resources in Portuguese, English, Latin & c. on mega.nz - don’t pass on this one either, it even has Latin memes.
Shoni's amazing collection of everything, largely from Scribd.
Great Books on G'Oogle and Internet Pharrchive by Ed Donnelly - it’s pretty hyooge, although half of it is Greek.
Project Gutenberg - books in and about the language.
Textkit - a modest collection of textbooks and readers, as well as a forum for Latin and Greek students and enthusiasts.
United Nations of Ancient and Endangered Languages presents:
Latin textbooks, grammars, dictionaries, papers.
UNAEL’s external resources links I, including Latin and Faliscan. Part II, though no Latin in there.
UNAEL's collection of language grammars of a good chunk of the world’s languages, including most of ancient Italic and Romance.
UNAEL website and Discord - might interest the lovers of historical linguistics, definitely will interest the lovers of memes.
SciHub, mirror - DOI or precise name goes in, academic article comes out.
Library Genesis, mirror, mirror, mirror - get your books, journals and articles here. Also damns your soul to eternal Communism.
B-Ok - kind of doubles LibGen but seems to draw on more sources.
Scribd - if you can find what you want, you can upload any document on the top-right and download a couple in return.
Twirpx - needs registration and might require some google translate to navigate, but sometimes is the only source (resources in
Russian, English, German and other languages - try your luck).
Dedicated Websites
Chiefly not in Latin
Latīnitium, a blog by the Erasmus of our time Daniel Pettersson.
Accademia Vīvārium Novum - a great collection of didactic and reading materials. It’s also a humanistic college with full immersion in
Latin and Ancient Greek for a year...unless you’re a female. Such humanism.
Lacus Curtius by Bill Thayer - a commented photo album of Roman towns and monuments; a library of culturally important and other
texts with translations; dictionaries of antiquities, topography, architecture and other historical overviews; subsites on roman military
history, astronomy, geography and the roman Umbria.
Nāvicula Bacchī by Egon Gottwein - it’s probably easier to say what’s not in there that concerns the Classics - texts, dictionaries,
phrasebooks, courses... Hopefully you understand German.
Cultura Classica - a large repository of didactic and cultural materials, some in Latin, but mainly in Castilian and Catalan. Difficult to
navigate but worth a look. Site map because 2018.
Chīrōn - un espacio colaborativo para profesores de Clásica. Has a wiki with plenty mostly broken links.
Bibliothēca Classica Sēlēcta by Université catholique de Louvain.
Lexilogos - many links to many lexicographic and grammar resources in various languages. The same in French.
Lexicity - a great collection of ancient language learning resources - includes Latin, Ancient Greek & many others.
Linguae - including an “introduction to Latin”, .ppt presentations for Latin via Ovid as well as some other vocab and grammar aids,
YT links to Latin-language scenes in movies with their transcriptions and translations. Also has resources for Greek.
Precēs Latīnae has a selection of religiously-oriented and other links.
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Stroh's personal page with recordings and texts of his Latin lections; articles and speeches in Latin and German;
Living Latin and other links; huge bibliography lists on various subjects.
The Patrologist by Seumas Macdonald - a combination of blog posts and permanent resources related to language acquisition
(Greek, Latin, other classical and modern languages), as well as Classics, Patristics, and Theology. Also offers private tutoring and
online courses of Latin and Ancient Greek.
Magister Craft by Iūlus Craft - transcripts of his videos, some beginner-friendly audio summaries of the Aeneid and more info about
his projects.
Satura Lanx by Irene Regini - her podcast, audiobooks, lessons, weekly emails.
The Blogicarian by A.Z. Foreman - Latin (and other) poetry translated and recited. An outstanding place for language and poetry
aficionados.
Blog about Lucretius in Spanish.
Grammaticalia - grammatica et alia - a French blog mainly about the Latin grammarians.
Index Circulōrum Latīnōrum.
Chiefly in Latin
Scorpio Martianus, the website of (just about) everyone’s favourite Latinist Luke A. Ranieri.
Satura Lanx by Irene Regini - her podcast, audiobooks, lessons, weekly emails.
Jiří A. Čepelák (Georgius Laminarius) at academia.edu - a Latin and history teacher, one of the most fluent speakers around, he has
things to teach you. Lessons & lectures in Latin and Czech.
Acadēmia Latīnitātis Fovendae - veterrima societās latīna in tōtō orbe.
Dē litterīs Latīnīs Latīnē - sēdēs rētiālis Jōhannis Brunensis, sodālis Ūniversitātis Pragensis, quī litterās Latīnās, quās ōlim odiō
habuerat, in Italiā tōtō pectore adamāvit.
Collēgium Latīnitātis - hīc pelliculās spectābis, nūntiōs legēs, dē cursibus vel lūstrātiōnibus certior fīēs. Plūrima enim consilia
habēmus, nam est nōbīs in animō Latīnitātem quōquōversus dīvulgare ac ūsum linguae Latīnae redintegrāre.
SAL Mūsārum - dēstinātum ad documenta concinnanda pūblicandaque, quō melius linguae quae dīcuntur classicae, praesertim
Latīna, modō āctīvō discantur. A Latin and Spanish website with a good number of resources and links.
José Antonio Rojas Carrera at scribd - including grammar explanations and exercises, illustrated LLPSI vocabulary lists with
example phrases and all kinds of other didactic help by. Featuring:
🔸 Conspectus litterārum Latīnārum ab antīquīs temporibus ad nostram novissimam aetātem - excerptōrum C pāginae
imāginibus instrūctae.
Sēdēs Circulī Latīnī Lūtētiensis quam sānē praetermittere nōlēs - legēs enim varia dē urbe Lutetiā et dē āctibus circulī ipsīus, nec
nōn vincula, studia didactica, lexicula, fābulās, carmina, acroasīs ac vērō etiam duās scēnās theātricās inveniēs!
Sēdēs Circulī Latīnī Pragēnī.
PHILIA - PHrātria Iuvenum Latīnitātem Investīgantium Alentiumque. Vidēlicet senibus nūllus aditus.
Societās Latīna Saravipontāna.
L.V.P.A. - Latīnitatī Vīvae Prōvehendae Associātiō.
Circulus Latīnus Honcongensis with quite a few dialogues, extensive vocab lists and other assorted Latin things.
Circulus Latīnus Londoniensis - praebet, inter alia, vincula ad sitūs quī ad linguam Latīnam vīvam pertinent.
Latīnitās Vīva, spelt in WordArt font - this whole website comes to us straight out of 1998 but still has some functioning resources.
Places and Events
SALVI - Septentriōnāle Americānum Latīnitātis Vīvae Institūtum - offers rustications in the US and now Australia too.
GrecoLatinoVivo nasce da un gruppo di docenti e ricercatori di latino e greco, esperti in didattica delle lingue classiche.
Polis Institute - summer courses and events in ancient tongues.
University of Kentucky - holds the Conventiculum Latīnum Lexintoniēnse.
Inter Versiculōs - Latin poetry composition workshops in Sicily with some nice tips and inspiration for budding poets.
Société de Linguistique Romane.
Online Forums and Chatrooms
The plural ends in -s in English, deal with it :P
discord.gg/Latin - our official Discord.
r/Locutorium - our official Latin-only subreddit.
Skype’s Locūtōrium Latīnum - best not to talk politics in there.
Latin and Greek Chats on Google Hangouts - audio/video chats held Monday 7:00 pm EST (Latin), Thursday, 1:00 PM EST (Latin),
Friday 9:00 pm EST (Ancient Greek), Saturday, 11:00 AM EST (Latin).
Latin Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, teachers, and students wanting to discuss the finer
points of the Latin language. Tends to generate high quality replies.
Textkit - a classical language learning forum.
Latin Discussion - another Latin forum.
Facebook groups
Aprender latín en latín.
Latinitium.
Legonium.
Magister Craft.
Schola Latina.
ScorpioMartianus - hosting weekly live streams in the language.
Teaching Latin
LIMEN - a Latin teaching portal by Justin Slocum Bailey - “Are you looking to teach Latin—not just about Latin—in a way that takes
research about language and the brain seriously?” A wealth of knowledge on the theory and practice of language acquisition and
teaching, as well as excellent Latin media and other resources.
John Piazza’s website on the Latin language and language pedagogy. CI readers, classroom resources and activities, links to other
educators’ websites and blogs.
Magistrula - games, activities, etc. for secondary level students. More useful for school teachers than for learners.
I Speak Latin: a Conversational Latin course for Young Beginners A.A. Campbell (2011) - is actually a teacher’s book.
Greco-Roman Culture
A folder full of relevant resources on mega.nz.
Rome - FutureLearn - a free course based on a digital reconstruction of the city in 4th c. AD will teach you about its planning and
architecture, as well as some generic aspects of life in it. Even has models you can walk or fly around. View most of it without
registration by changing numbers in the address bar, but register for a full experience and interaction with teachers and learners.
Digital Hadrian's Villa Project - enjoy the photos and walk around in 3D.
Ancient Wine - video/image galleries of a few very neat digital reconstructions.
James Stanton-Abbott at Behance has a couple of impressive Pompeian reconstructions.
Altair4 Multimedia Archeo3D Production - glorious reconstructions of Roman architecture with then-and-now walkthroughs.
In particular:
🔸 Roma Antiqua by Altair4 Multimedia: among the best digital reconstructions of Ancient Rome around, narrated. “A fascinating
and extraordinary journey will lead you back in time through the splendours of Ancient Rome: from the Roman Forum to the
Campus Martius and to the Vatican, Ostia Antica and Pompeii.”
History in 3D by Danila Loginov - Ancient Rome 320 AD-Walking around the Colosseum.
Lacus Curtius: Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
Costumes of All the Nations by Kretschmer & Rohrbach (1882) - including ancient and medieval fashion.
Private Life of the Romans (worth reading if you're in JCL, it's a Certamen source).
Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa - Aeschylus’ The Suppliants fully staged in Sicilian, MoGreek and Arabic.
The Atrium
Pronunciation
Aids for verse scansion are found here, audio recordings here.
Latin Spelling and Pronunciation at wikipedia - a quality article with recordings.
Vox Latina: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin, by W.S. Allen (orig. 1965, rev. 1978) - your standard introduction to the
phonetics of Latin, accessible yet exhaustive.
The pronunciation of Greek and Latin, the sounds and accents by E.H. Stutevant (1920) - what Allen’s book was inspired by.
La pronuncia "neutra, internazionale" del latino classico by Luciano Canepari (2004, 2008) - a brief but technical and very detailed
summary, not always incontroversial and somewhat idiosyncratic (he uses a custom IPA system named after himself), but the guy
has a comparative phonology book on 5 full pages of language names from across the globe, so he knows what he’s talking about.
Yeah, I don’t speak Italian either.
Dē Latīnae linguae prōnūntiātiōne by W. Stroh - scholae Latīnē habitae quās et auscultāre et legere licet.
How to Pronounce Latin by Luke A. Ranieri - a YouTube playlist that teaches the Restored/Classical pronunciation of Latin in Latin
(and quite beautifully). Don’t worry, it’s subtitled.
Familia Romana + Colloquia Personarum readings by Luke A. Ranieri - the best LLPSI readings around.
Alatius aka Johan Winge - good Latin readings, if in a not-so-pleasant voice, with more links to spoken Latin and a couple of truly
excellent essays on Latin pronunciation. In particular:
🔸 A comprehensive list of most known hidden vowel quantities, that is, long vowels in otherwise heavy/closed syllables;
🔸 Some notes on how to read Latin verse, including a couple of audio examples.
Johan Winge on YouTube - the clear visualisation of the hexameter was very revealing to me at first stages (way better voice).
La lettura metrica latina (non esiste) by Alexander Veronensis - video didattico in cui cerco di raccontare come si debba e
soprattutto come non si debba leggere in metrica.
sicerabibax's website on Latin pronunciation - omnia dē prōnūntiātū restitūtō, multīs et pulchrīs cum exemplīs. (almost) Everything
about the restored pronunciation of Latin with excellent recordings of sounds and words.
sicerabibax on Forvo.com - a pronunciation dictionary of words and phrases.
An anonymous Russian on Forvo.com - turn down your volume.
Pronouncing the Pater Noster in Modern English Latin - i.e. what to do to damn your whole bloodline to the end of days.
LLPSI
File folders (original books & MP3s). The newer readers are found here.
Ūnum - DJVU&Audio - searchable, with contents and much smaller than the PDFs, but likely to require downloading a
DJVU-capable viewer.
Duo - DJVU&Audio converted into PDFs, some without contents and some non-searchable.
Tria - the same on mega.nz.
Quattuor - DJVU&Audio as a torrent.
Quīnque - different PDFs (some searchable and with contents), but not every book and no audio. Also found in Shoni’s collection.
Brief guide to LLPSI - important to read, with tips on how to use the series and easier navigable links.
Teach yourself using LLPSI - useful to watch.
LLPSI CDs torrent - the complete books in CD format: FR with audio, RA, and the Exercitia to both. The best way to do Pensa and
Exercitia. Update for it to work unmounted.
LLPSI Progress Tracker by God Almighty: a useful document that you can print off and use to track your progress through LLPSI and
its various supplements.
List of all the current editions from Hackett Publishing - based in the US.
Edizioni Accademia Vivarium Novum - has a number of exclusive newer additions to the series: LLPSI-style self-explained editions
of Virgil’s Būcolica Carmina and selections from Lucrētius’ Dē Rērum Nātūrā, new exercise books and the Italian Enchiridion
Discipulōrum combining a lot of the original suppementary books with valuable new additions.
Familia Rōmāna
Lingua Latīna Per Sē Illūstrāta Pars I: Familia Rōmāna - a direct link for convenience.
LLPSI Dēfīnīta - the text of the first 27 lessons in digital format, proofread with macrons and annotated with hover-over marginalia
from the book. Ideal for turning into an e-book. Don’t use without the Pensa (the post-text exercises).
A Companion to Familia Romana, 2nd ed. by J.M. Newmann (2016) - formerly known as the College Companion. Stretches the
original Latīnē Discō as far as it will go, adds the Latin-English Vocabulary book and translates Grammatica Latina. Good for those
harrassed by a grammar-bothering magister.
ScorpioMartianus reads FR and CP - best readings around by mīlle passuum, but the first half can be difficult compared to Ørberg’s.
LLPSI Fābellae Latīnae ad cap. I-XXXV - a 2009 edition by Luigi Miraglia with double the content of Ørberg’s original. Lacks the
marginal explanations of the other books, but the stories are nice and graded to the chapters. Provides you with tons of reading.
FR Latin-Latin dictionary, an 84mb but text-searchable one - indispensable to learn to think in Latin.
FR illustrated and animated vocabulary in PowerPoint - a gift for the visually inclined among us; everybody else still needs to try it.
FR multilingual vocabulary - English · Français · Español · Italiano · Deutsch.
Latin-Portuguese vocabulary based upon LLPSI by K. Teonia, L. Quednau, M. Knispel.
Latin-German vocabulary spreadhsheet for chapters 1-25.
Handouts with grammar, vocabulary, and reading commentaries: for cap. I-XV, for cap. XVI-XXVII.
J. Čepelák (Georgius Laminārius) - Conspectus Grammaticus, mirror - the all-Latin grammar explanations that LLPSI deserves. For
the grammar-translation trained student or teacher looking to learn to think about Latin in Latin, or for those who want to learn Latin
grammar terminology, or simply for those looking for a challenge. Likely incomprehensible to your teacher.
Recursos para LLPSI - a google site - LLPSI resources organised by chapter (images, videos, vocabulary slides, quizzes, exercises)
- click the top-left menu or "capítulo" for index.
All the text-related questions from Exercitia Latina in one PDF, in one DOC by A.G. Amador.
FR Exercises online with vocabulary lists - answers require macrons, while Pensum C requires not looking just one line below.
Imāginēs - persōnae & tabulae Familiae Rōmānae - some pictures from the book.
Rōma Aeterna
A Companion to Rōma Aeterna - Amazon link by J. Nemann (2017) - all the necessariy crutches to tackle the second part on your
own. Combines the absurdly stretched Instructions book with the Latin-English Vocabulary II and the translated Grammatica Latīna.
Opus Scholāris presents:
🔸 All the new grammatical concepts of Rōma Aeterna explained in Latin.
🔸 RA Latin-Latin dictionary - more Spartan than its FR cousin. Text-searchable.
Readings of both FR and RA on Youtube by S. Pūblius - seemingly the best that exist for RA.
Non-LLPSI
Palaestra, being the primer of the Tusculan system of learning, and of teaching Latin to speak; for class use and for self-instruction
by A. Avellānus (A. Mogyoróssy). Can pose a problem teach quite a bit (of vocabulary) even to fluent Latin readers:
🔸 1896 Edition.
🔸 1912 Edition - considerably more elaborate.
🔸 Arēna palaestārum. This is meant to be read after working through Palaestra.
LLPSI-style Readers
Ørberg’s editions of Caesar, Ovid, Platus, etc can be found here.
Fābulae Syrae by L. Miraglia (2010), well-written and sometimes challenging mythological stories supplementing ch. 26-34+ of FR.
Epitomē Historiae Sacrae by C. F. Lhomond (orig. 1784) - the Vivarium Novum edition, good for ch. 20 if you know or can deduce
(you can) the later-introduced moods & tenses it uses.
Dē Rērum Nātūrā by T. Lucrētius Cārus, I. Armella, G. A. Čepelák A. Miraglia, E. M. Smith (2012) - selections and explanations.
Būcolica Carmina (also called Eclogae) by P. Vergilius Marō & R. E. Giangioia.
Opus Scholāris by Juan Pablo Fernández del Río presents, among other things, LLPSI-style readers of:
Other Readers
Justin Slocum-Bailey’s explanation of extensive reading, articles stating the case for extensive reading, explanations of how to read
extensively, and his list (and links to other lists) of extensive reading and listening material.
Hiberna Carolī Raeticī - another useful list of CI texts.
A list of Latin novels written for beginner and intermediate students by John Piazza.
A Google folder with a few dozen readers of varying degrees of difficulty. Ideal for extensive reading.
Vīvārium Novum’s collection of all kinds of things to read.
Geoffrey Steadman’s Greek and Latin texts with facing vocabulary and commentary made freely available for download.
Novice - mostly about violence, clearly aiming at Caesar. LLPSI users will want to skip. Vocabulary at the back.
Mīlle Noctēs - simple reading material in Latin for students and teachers of all levels.
Colloquia Latīna by D’Ooge (1888) - ~450 unique words.
A New Latin Primer by M. Maxey (1933) - 554 unique words, mostly ancient setting, no subjunctive.
Cornēlia by M. Maxey (1933) - also 554 unique words, set in America, no subjunctive - said to suck.
Carolus et Marīa by M. J. Fay (1933) - 588 unique words, set in America, no subjunctive - said to suck.
Julia: A Latin Reading book by M. Reed (1924) - ~800 unique words. Retells ancient myths and fables - said to suck.
Ōra Maritima by E.A. Sonnenschein (1908) - ~900 unique words. With heavy militaristic leanings, a grammar (!) and exercises - said
to suck less.
Prō Patriā by E.A. Sonnenschein (1910) - ~1300 unique words. A sequel to Ora Maritima. 4 more years of that led to WWI.
Puer Rōmānus, on gutenberg by R.B. Appleton & W.H.S. Jones (1913) - no vocabulary, but questions in Latin.
Pons Tīrōnum, on gutenberg by R.B. Appleton & W.H.S. Jones (1914) - including questions and vocabulary in Latin; ~1000 unique
words. These two read like their authors could actually speak the language.
Bēstiāria Latīna: Brevissima - 1001 two-line poems classical, medieval and modern, with Latin-English vocabulary keyed to a
frequency list. Excellent for those wishing to get into poetry or struggling to engage with longer texts.
Intermediate and up - to bridge the post-Familia Rōmāna gap.
Ad Alpēs: a Tale of Roman Life, at archive by H.C. Nutting (1923). ~3000 unique words. Roman history and myth told through a
compelling narrative in relatively uncompromised classical-style Latin. If you’re going to read only one reader, make it this. Modern
edition available in print.
Cicerōnis Fīlius, mirror by U.E. Paoli (1958) - puerīlis nārrātiō ad domesticōs Rōmānōrum mōrēs illūstrandōs, in ūsum scholārum
redācta. An ideal introduction to the ordinary world of the ancient Romans once you’ve learned all the FR grammar.
Dē virīs illūstribus urbis Rōmae a Rōmulō ad Augustum, on wikisource by Lhomond (1779) - an uninspired but useful and
widely-read guide to who was who in ancient Rome. Can serve as a quick reference too. ~4000 unique words.
Epitomē Historiae Graecae, on archive.org Thōmae Vallauriī (1865) - intermediate-level summary of Greek history, ~2800 words.
Epitomē Historiae Rōmānae Thōmae Vallauriī (1871) - ditto of Roman history, ~4000 unique words.
Lūdī Persicī, on archive by R.B. Appleton (1921) - original plays supposed to be acted out. Intermediate grammar, no vocab or
notes.
Two Latin Plays for High-School Students by Susan Paxson (1911).
A Latin reader - easy selections for beginners by F.A. Gallup (1913) - short ancient stories, helpful notes, and a full vocabulary. ~
1100 unique words.
A First Latin Reader by H.C. Nutting (1912) - ~1700 unique words about American history. Goes with A Latin Primer + answer key.
Via latīna: an easy Latin reader by W.C. Collar (1897) - some mythology, some history, with Latin definitions for a change. Notes
and vocabulary stashed at the back. ~2600 unique words.
Ritchie's Fābulae Facilēs, only the text (1884, 1903, 2012) by F. Ritchie, J. Kirtland, G. Steadman - “a first Latin reader” (um yeah
good luck) of congested mythology: Perseus, Hercules, Argonauts, Ulysses. Pharr-style facing vocab and notes, 1492 unique words.
Fābulae Ab Urbe Conditā by F. Sanford, H. Scott, G. Steadman (1919, 2017) - heavily adapted from Livy’s Ab Urbe Conditā and
Lhomond’s Dē virīs illūstribus, facing vocab and notes, 1949 unique words.
Easy Latin for Sight Reading by B.L. D'Ooge (1897) - selections from Gellius, Ritchie, and Lhomond.
Intermediate Oral Latin Reader by F. Jones (1915) - based on Cicero’s Dē senectūte, extracts from Martial & Horace. Questions and
commentary in Latin. ~2000 unique words.
The Latin Reader: Part Second, for yellow paper lovers by F. Jacobs & F. W. Doering (1827) - selections from Phaedrus, Cicero,
Livy, an abridgment of Philippic Histories.
From Augustus to Nero: An Intermediate Latin Reader by G.F. Fagan & P. Murgatroyd (2006) - includes selections from Tacitus,
Suetonius and Seneca on the first five Roman emperors. They present a dark world of murder, mayhem, debauchery and palace
intrigue. Access to a teddy bear while reading is strongly recommended.
Apuleius' Cupid and Psyche by faenumpublishing (2015) - “an intermediary Latin reader” where 3/4 of the page is occupied by
vocabulary and grammar glosses. Ideal for those who shouldn’t in the first place be trying to read the thing in the next year or two.
Dē Bellō Gallicō by Andre Inglis (2017+) - an even more egregious example of the above, but will certainly come in handy to the poor
AP Latin students.
The Latin Library's Latin 101 - selections (classical and post) with notes and vocabulary lists.
1001 Aesop’s Fables in Latin, pdf as well - very short summaries, very questionable value.
Beginning Latin Poetry Reader by G. Betts, D. Franklin (2006) - overexplained reading selections with background information and
some culturally significant digressions and excerpts. Text not macronised - only the glosses. Grammar and translations at the back.
Vocabulary Aids
...that didn’t make it into the dictionary section.
Opus scholāris praebet per sē illūstrātās: praepositiōnēs, ōrātiōnēs temporālīs, ōrātiōnēs causālīs, ōrātiōnēs concessīvās.
1000 Core Vocabulary - sortable by frequency, part of speech, semantic category, with translations in Chinese, English, Spanish,
Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish.
The Formation of Latin Diminutives of Nouns and Adjectives by I.A. Miller - a good summary with many tables.
Dēminūtīvum Latīnum at Vicipaedia - diminutives explained in Latin.
Latin colours construed.
An insults handout.
Generate vocabulary lists (La/Gr-En) for selected texts.
Basic verbs list from The Latin Library.
Dickinson College’s core vocabulary list.
Vocabulary from Comenius illustrated by pictures (to some degree).
Diagram of Latin pronouns.
Animālium aliquot nōmina - with English translations, some Latin explanations and words to express animal sounds.
Vocabulary lists #1 - English - Latin - Greek.
Vocabulary lists #2 - Astronomic, Botanical, Computer, Epistolary, Geographic, Zoological - multilingual.
Classroom vocabulary, classroom phrases by J. Piazza.
Elementary Grammar
A Student Handbook of Latin and English Grammar, epub by P.L. Corrigan and R. Mondi (2014) - if you’re new to grammar.
Synopsis of Ancient Latin Grammar by J.M. Harrington (2016) - Latin grammar in 125 pages.
Cambridge Latin Preterm grammar pack.
The Latin Library presents grammar and vocabulary handouts for several textbooks (many for LLPSI), exercises, texts and reading
selections with vocabulary notes and other commentary, incl. courses on specific authors.
Resource Sheets for LATN 112, 113, and 202.
Grammar reference guide for the 3rd and 4th years of Latin (high school) - for those lovers of tables.
Subjunctive sequence of tenses chart.
Introductory, secondary level grammar explanations with plenty of examples by virdrinksbeer.
A very useful tool for drilling Greek or Latin grammar - interface in English and German. Also has extensive list of paradigms.
All-Latin Editions
Also see scholarly works in Latin.
Aulus Persivs Flaccus, Saturae ab H. (O.) Nikitinski - commentāriō atque indice rērum notābilium instrūctae. This volume is a short
Latin commentary with an emphasis on linguistic interpretation.
Artis Rhētoricae Enchiridion ā G.A. Lamināriō (J. Čepelák) - sīve Mārtiānī Capellae (c. 500 p. C. ?) operis, quod Dē nūptiīs Mercuriī
et Philologiae inscrībitur, liber V ad ūsum discipulōrum in novam hanc fōrmam dīgestus et aliquot exemplīs additīs auctus.
M. Tullī Cicerōnis prō A. Liciniō Archiā poētā ōrātiō (62 a. Cr.) G.A. Lamināriō (J. Čepelák) docente.
Opera Horātiī ā L. Despres - in Ūsum Delphīnī illūstrāta interpretatiōne et notīs.
Aulularia, Trinumus, Miles Gloriosus ā Thōmā Vallauriō - cum multīs annotātiōnibus.
Commentary on the Aeneid from late antiquity.
Epistolārum ad T. Pompōnium Atticum librī XVI: Vol. I, Vol. II by M. Tullius Cicero, J.C.G. Boot (1865-66) - scholia satis accepta cum
paucīs annotātiunculīs criticīs.
Catullī Vērōnensis liber, ēditiō maijor, ēditiō minor apud gutenberg ā R. Ellis (1867, 1904) - instrūctus apparātō criticō, prolegomenīs,
appendice dē partītiōne carminum.
Catullī Vērōnensis liber, commentary only, on archive - ab E. Baehrens (1876, 1893) - likely the most extensive commentary there is.
Aesōpus Latīnus by anonymous, ed. H. Draheim (ca. 350 - ca. 500, 1893) - critical editions of the elegiac versions written in the 12th
century, also known as “elegiac Romulus”, “Anōnymus Nevelētī” or “Walter of England”. Same as “Aesop” at wikibooks.
Phaedrus solūtus by Phaedrus, C.M. Zander (1921) - 30 prose fables from various manuscripts restored into senarius verse.
Colloquia Scholastica
Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana, on archive - learn Latin or Greek the way they were taught at the end of the 3rd c. AD. Check
Academic Literature for a modern edition with translation and commentary, as well as a modern textbook based on them.
Manuāle scholārium by anonymous (1481), translation by R.F. Seybolt (1921) - an original account of life in the medieval university.
The frank if somewhat rough-hewn daddy of all those Renaissance colloquia, tremendous entertainment value.
J. Čepelák (G. Laminārius) - Schola aestīva dē colloquiīs scholāsticīs eōrundemque ad Latīnitātem trādendam ūtilitāte - a selection
of didactic dialogues from a variety of authors with some exercises.
Corderius' Colloquies redacted by A. Avellānus (A. Mogyoróssy) (1904) to a state of impeccable propriety (sometimes by rewriting
most of it) and supplied with invaluable Latin explanations to all the difficult vocab and expressions.
Early 20th century collection, concerning mainly school.
D’Ooge’s colloquia, late 19th century, variety of topics including mythology.
Readings of Renaissance colloquia (Corderius, Vives, etc).
Links to texts of the above colloquia on STOA.
Carmen dē prōdiciōne Guenonis, just the text, a different translation & commentary by anonymous (~ c. 12–13th) - a Song of Roland
spin-off in elegiac couplets full of alliteration and polypoptons. Tr. W.D. Paden & P. H. Stäblein (1988); A. Livingston (1911).
Le Carmen de Prodicione Guenonis et la légende de Roncevaux tr. P. Gaston (1882) - with French translation & commentary.
Historia Mēriadocī & Dē ortū Walwāniī (= Gawain) by anonymous (~ c. 12–13th) - two Medieval Latin Arthurian romances in prose.
Opuscula Sēlecta Neerlandicōrum dē Arte Medicā on Project Gutenberg in Latin & Dutch.
Dē Vulgārī Ēloquentiā by D. Alighieri (1302–05) - unfinished.
Epistolae Obscūrōrum Virōrum, ēditiō alt., indicēs/glossae by anonymous (1515–19) - a celebrated collection of satirical letters which
appeared in Hagenau, mocking the doctrines and modes of living of the scholastics and monks by pretending to be letters from
fanatic Christian theologians.
Ōratio Dē Doctōre Umbrāticō by D. Ruhnken, ed. H. (O.) Nikitinski (1761, 2001).
Dē Duōbus Amantibus Historia by E.S. Piccolomini.
Opera Avellānī (A. Mogyoróssy) - Tūsculāneum gathers the full library of works by Arcadius Avellānus that are freely available on the
internet into one place. Direct links are provided to these works, including his many translations found in the Mount Hope Classics
series.
🔸 PDF of Arēna palaestārum.
🔸 PDF of Robinson Crūsoeus.
Medieval Latin And The Rise Of European Love Lyric: Vol. 1, Vol. 2 by P. Dronke (1966) - the love-letters between 12th-century
nuns are said to be particularly worth a read (V2 p. 150).
Dē arte natandī librī duo by E. Digby (1587) - quōrum prior rēgulās ipsīus artis, posterior vērō praxin dēmonstrātiōnemque continet.
The second book contains numerous woodcut illustrations demonstrating various swimming techniques accompanied by descriptive
text.
Omnī dēsīderantī nōtitiam - a music theory text from the 14th century.
Dē fūneribus Rōmānōrum librī quatuor cum appendice by J. Kirchmann, R. de Hooghe, N. Rigault (1605, 1672) - a beautiful scan.
Athanāsiī Kircherī Chīna, monumentīs quā sacrīs quā profānīs, nec nōn variīs nātūrae et artis spectāculīs, aliārumque rērum
memorābilium argūmentīs illūstrāta (1667) by A. Kircher. Pars III digitāliter versa.
Erasmus
Desideriī Erasmī Roterodamī Opera Omnia ‘the Leiden editions’ (1703-1706) - beautiful scans of a modern reprint in original
typography. Some big file sizes.
Opera Omnia Desideriī Erasmī Roterodamī ‘the Amsterdam editions’ (1967-) - most tomes of his secular writings, in the first ever
critical editions, in modern typography. The rest sought after.
List of editions on Brill; Erasmus Writings List alphabetical; Erasmus Writings List chronological.
Encōmium Artis Medicae on Project Gutenberg.
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society - relevant links.
Musaeolum by Cory Russo where he reads various Classical authors in an unapologetically American accent.
Alatius by Johan Winge - quite a few good and extensive readings, if in a rather abrasive voice, with more links to spoken Latin and
a couple of truly excellent essays on Latin pronunciation.
A collection of poetry readings, quite impressive in terms of quantity if not in terms of quality.
Readings of Renaissance colloquia (Corderius, Vives, etc).
LibriVox recording of the Aeneid - no, it’s not in English.
Boethī Dē Consōlātiōne Philosophiae, Augustīnī Confessiōnēs and other things read by Bedwere in a pleasant Ecclesiastical
pronunciation.
Ovid-project - What did Ovid’s Metamorphoses sound like? An impressive multi-actor effort to recite many extensive passages of the
text, supplied with length and stress marks, a German translation, explanations of metrics and prosody, a glossary, bibliography and
annotated links. Ach, Gott strafe den deutschen Akzent!
Erasmī Roterodamī “Dē cīvilitāte mōrum puerīlium” - opusculum a Iōsephō Rojas (quī et Iarcius) recitātum.
Quārtum fābulae ā Michaele ab Albrecht fictae “Dē simiā Heidelbergensī” inscrīptae capitulum ab eōdem recitātum.
The Hortus
“It’s alive!”
Periodicals & Blogs
Nūntiī Latīnī Yle - conspectus rērum internātiōnālium hebdomadālis, est programma Radiophōniae Finnicae Generālis (Yle) in
terrārum orbe (paene) ūnicum.
Nūntiī Latīnī Bremen - Radiophōnia Brēmensis quōsdam cuijusque mensis praeteritī nūntios Kalendīs Latīnē prōfert. Accēdunt nūntiī
tēlevīsificī Latīnī atque nūntiī ā discipulīs prō discipulīs conscrīptī. Librī quoque, quī sunt dē rēbus antīquīs, descrībī solent.
Playlist of Luke A. Ranieri reading the news. Newer news from his website. Don’t miss out.
Ephemeris - Varsoviae nāta per rēte dīvulgāta ad omnia scītū digna spectans. A news websitewith a smashing style.
Mercurius on Avvenire.it - Luigi Miraglia’s Biweekly Column.
Epistula Leonīna - hebdomadāle periodicum Latīnē scrīptum, quod ēditur ē domō ēditōriā interrētiālī cui nōmen est "Leo Latinus"
quodque nōn parum multās conversiōnēs Latīnās opusculōrum lēctū dignōrum lēctōrī praebet. Cavē: nōn omnia vincula operantur.
Palaestra - menstruus dē Latīnitāte commentārius annō 1930 institūtus.
Mercurius #1 - commentāriī periodicī ā Vīvāriō Novō ēditī quī exemplum Latīnitātis hodiērnae pulchrum praebent. Hōc in ēditiōne: In
memoriam Orbergiī; Annālēs Academiae; Dē nostrā bibliothēcā; Dē Latīnitātis fortūnā in Ecclēsiā; Dē ratiōne carmina legendī.
Weekly news from Western Washington University.
Studium Angelopolitānum - commentāria dē hūmāniōribus litterīs latīnē conscrīpta.
Commentāriolum - Jean-François Arnoud dē rēbus pūblicīs et cīvilibus Latīnē.
SAL - Scrīptōrium Acadēmicum Latīnum quod ā Sandra Ramos Maldonado conscrībitur. Also works as an entryway to Spain's Latin
& Greek academic-blogging community thanks to all the crosslinking.
Lingva Latina Per Se Illvstrata by Ansgārius Legiōnensis (Óscar Ramos) - blog destinado a los usuarios del curso LLPSI de Hans H.
Ørberg. Pretende la aportación de materiales didácticos y el comentario de experiencias en el aula.
Dē verbīs prōverbiīsque Latīnīs - commentāriolum Iōsēphī Rojas. A blog by José Rojas.
Quod in solum - commentāriolum ipsīus alterum. Another blog of his.
Rētiārius: Archīvum Recentiōris Latīnitātis - commentāriī periodicī Latīnī quibus index Rētiārius ab annō 1998ō ūsque ad annum
2001um per rēte ūniversāle ēdēbantur. Terentiō Tunberg moderātōre .
Modern Literature
Vātēs - The Journal of New Latin Poetry with English prefaces and translations, curated by Mark Walker.
Contemporary Latin Poetry - curated by Marc Moskowitz.
Alessio Schianp (Alexius Isclānus Cosānus) writes beautiful poetry daily, some of which he posts:
Poētaster Latīnus by Alexis Hellmer - offers for our reading pleasure: Bellum Sīderium, Jurassica, Mūsa Cacātrīx.
C. Tiburtiī Dextrī memorābilia by Jean-François Arnoud - a Roman detective story in Latin.
Subductisupercilicarptor by u/cclaudian - who’s evidently possessed by the Muses of Latin verse.
Magister Craft’s novice summary of the Aeneid - the recordings range from 3-6 minutes and cover all the major events of Vergil's
Epic poem in easy prose containing varied but simple vocabulary, syntax, and grammatical constructions.
YouTube Channels
Alessandro Conti (Alexander Vērōnensis) has quite a few videos - mainly in Italian, some in Latin, and a couple in Greek.
Alexius Cosānus’ channel with very short and amusing monologues as well as a bit of poetry.
Aprīlis Albuquerquensis permulta carmina antīqua cantat, saepiculē ad modōs.
Beātus Helvētius dē variīs rēbus Latīnē loquitur.
Bhasa Devi - aliquot audiunculae breviōrēs.
Caesō Vincentius Lentulus's channel with a few vlogs in Latin and a music playlist.
Coquāmus - spectācula dē rē coquīnāriā, nōnnumquam cum fīliolā participe.
Dīvus Magister Craft by Iūlus Craft - the award-winning project to teach Latin through Minecraft. Suitable from lower intermediate.
Evan der Millner - readings galore beyond imagination - basic dialogues, ancient authors, even grammars. However, Evan is a
believer in Latin melodic accent...
Iōannēs Oculus - a Polish polyglot and linguist-in-progress. Also a bookworm and gamer from time to time.
Latīnitium by Daniel Petterson - multae taeniolae optimae dē vītīs auctōrum Rōmānōrum, rēbus mȳthologicīs & gestīs, locūtiōnibus
Latīnīs et aliīs jūcundīs.
Mārtīnus Loch (Marcin Loch) taeniolās dē Poloniā aliīsque rēbus Latīnē facit.
Magister Piazza - John Piazza, Latin teacher at Berkeley High School, reads and discusses Latin, mostly in Latin.
Melētus Suāvis - dē vītā et locīs ubi versātur breviculē loquitur.
Menelmacar by Loganus Kilpelä - hāctenus duo librī Aenēidos bene ēmendātē recitātī insunt.
Mūsa Pedestris - maximae artis metricae fautrīcis tubulum.
Nivēs Ursa - a Latin language teacher from Croatia. Enthusiastic. Loves to sing.
Noctēs Wratislaviensēs by Katarzyna Ochman.
Quōmodo Dīcitur? - is also on YouTube.
Ryan “Rēgulus” Dupuis.
Scorpiō Mārtiānus by Luke A. Ranieri - aka mr. Model Pronunciation, is the most prolific maker of videos in Latin, which also happen
to be among the best around.
Scott Meadows’s Youtube channel with dozens of videos featuring Josiah Meadows which demonstrate how to teach LLPSI and
other texts vīvā vōce/in Latin.
Stephanus Victorius quī et Rumak pulcherrimē pauca breviōraque recitat.
ThePrinceSterling records prose and poetry, unfortunately realising vowel length as stutter.
Athēnæum Illūstre est circulus ad quem magistrī ac professōrēs quī Latīnē doceant aut acroasīs faciant saepiculē invītantur.
Collēgium Latīnitātis - intermediate-level 30-minute all-Latin class sessions on ancient works demonstrating the natural method.
Itinerario: cultura grecorromana en latín - Jorge Tárrega Garrido, Esteban Bérchez Castaño, Guillermo Palao, Carles García &
María Luisa Aguilar disertissimē docent seu ‘lūstrātiōnēs’ habent dē pictūrīs quārum argūmentum fābulae Latīnae Graecaeque
quaeque in Mūsēō Prado in prōmptū sunt. Lectures on art pieces on Greco-Roman mythology in Madrid’s Museo del Prado with
subtitles in Latin, Spanish and English.
Paideia Institute - various lectures in Latin by Tunberg, Tárrega, Minkova, Owens, Llewellyn, et al.
Societās Philologa Polonōrum - ubi inveniēs acroasīs Latīnē et Polonicē habitās.
Playlist of Luigi Miraglia teaching LLPSI - full versions availble on a DVD somewhere.
Latin Tutorial - English channel about intro level grammar. Good for high school students learning through the translation method.
Latin Per Diem - helps to translate sentences step by step and covers many authors from various periods.
Student’s Grammar
The Comic Latin Grammar: A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by P. Leigh & J. Leech (1840) - of course it exists.
Lateinische Grammatik by K.G. Zumpt (1818, 1860) - the daddy of all non-ancient (ahem) Latin grammars in glorious Fraktur.
A Grammar of the Latin language, online & navigable by § by K.G. Zumpt, tran. by L. Schmitz (tr. 1845) - way less glorious.
A Practical Grammar of the Latin language, key by G.J. Adler (1858) - full of useful examples and expressions and often
recommended, just skip the part on pronunciation. Organised by lesson, so information on one topic can be tricky to extract.
The Student's Latin Grammar, online & navigable by § by W. Smith & T. Hall (1863, 1867) - student-friendly and practical.
Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar - by B. Gildersleeve & G. Lodge (1867, 1895) - yet another attempt to implant 19th century German
grammar teaching into the Anglophone boy. Took them over a century to stop trying, meanwhile the book had become standard.
The Revised Latin Primer by B.H. Kennedy (1867, 1906).
Allen & Greenough’s New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, digitalised on dickinson, on perseus by J.H. Allen, J.B.
Greenough et al. (1872, 1903) - prescriptive and unnecessarily technical, but often useful for its clear conciseness.
New Latin Grammar, in PDF, on archive.org by C.E. Bennett (1895, 1918) - dumbed-down aiming at extreme concision, but usable.
Appendix to Bennett’s Latin Grammar - for the enlightened boy.
A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges, on archive.org by G. Lane and M. Morgan (orig. 1898, rev. 1903) - surprisingly
descriptive, elaborate and abounding with examples for what it claims to be. Easiest to navigate - my personal recommendation.
A Latin Grammar by J. Morwood (1999) - “the most accessible guide for students” is an apt description.
Synopsis of Ancient Latin Grammar by J.M. Harrington (2016) - the Latin grammar in 125 pages. Keeping up with the times.
Language Stuff by UNAEL, a large collection of grammars including most of ancient Italic and Romance.
Evan Der Millner reads Alder’s A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language for 200 hours because he can.
Composition
Hints towards Latin prose composition by A.W. Potts (1893) - not a composition textbook per se, but a presentation of the
characteristics of Latin prose. His description of the language helps gain a better idea of what makes Latin Latin.
Latin Prose Composition Based on Cicero, partial key by H.C. Pearson (1903) - solid explanations (with references to grammars)
followed by extensive exercises in rewriting some of Cicero’s orations by sentence or in whole passages in the second part.
New Latin Composition, mirror, key, mirror by C.E. Bennett (1912) - merely a translation exercise book supplementing his grammar.
Curiously enough, for any explanations it refers you to Allen & Greenough and Harkness.
Latin Prose composition, key by M.A. North & A.E. Hillard (1913) - another translation exercise book with minimal explanations.
Bradley's Arnold Latin Prose Composition, key p. 1, p. 2 by T.K. Arnold, J. Mountford (1938, 2005) - Wheelock’s done right.
Inter Versiculōs - Latin poetry composition workshops in Sicily with some nice tips and inspiration for budding poets.
Antibarbarus der lateinischen Sprache: Erster Band, Zweiter Band by J. Krebs & J. Schmalz (1905) - scolds you for not being
classyical enough in your word usage and style, all in German - what could be better?
Synchronic Grammar
The Oxford Latin Syntax by H. Pinkster (2015) - 1465 pages of grammar nirvana replete with quotations & further reading references
- the USSR was worth it. References to chapters you can’t find are to Volume 2, which is tba.
A New Latin Syntax, DJVU by E.C. Woodcock (1959) - an excellent collection of advanced lectures capable of resolving many
questions on many aspects of grammar. Like the above, requires an intermediate knowledge of the language (post-Familia
Romana).
New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax by P. Baldi, P. Cuzzolin (2009-11) is a methodologically uniform multi-authored work
that traces main currents in the syntactic history of Latin:
Ausführliche Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache by R. Kühner & C. Stegmann (1877, rev. 1912-1914) - still the biggest and most
comprehensive syntax out there:
🔸 Band 1, yellow scan (rev. 1912) - Elementar-, Formen- und Wortlehre.
🔸 Band 2: 1ste Abt. (rev. 1912) - Syntaxe des einfachen Satzes.
🔸 Band 2: 2te Abt. (rev. 1914) - Syntaxe des zusammengesetzten Satzes.
Lateinische Grammatik by Leumann, Szantyr et. al. (1928, 1965) - not exactly the latest research, but very detailed:
Sintaxis del latín clásico coord. by J.M. Baños Baños (2009) - aimed at university students.
Historical Grammar
The Latin Language - An Historical Account of Latin Sounds, Stems, and Flexions by W. M. Lindsay (1894) - this monumental work
on historical linguistics remains surprisingly useful and relevant even today. Reads well. Less interesting for casual learners.
Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin, non-OCRed but tiny djvu by M. Weiss (2009) - rightfully trumps itself as
“the first truly comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date history of Latin from its prehistoric beginnings down to its medieval and
modern descendants.” 636 pages of sound shifts, grammar changes, notes, observations and bib references - super readable.
New comparative grammar of Greek and Latin by A. Sihler (1995, 2009) - a standard reading for historical linguists, still a great
reference for everyone else who likes to dive into the technical stuff. Double the profit for the graecantēs.
Historische Laut- und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache by G. Meiser (1998) - frequently cited and seemingly the most
up-to-date in the long line of these works.
Roman Grammarians
Grammaticī latīnī ex recensiōne Henricī Keiliī
Vol. I Charisius & Diomēdēs Artis Grammaticae Librī by H. Keil (1857).
Vol. II - Prīsciānī Institūtiōnum Grammaticārum Librī I-XII by M. Hertz (1855).
Vol. III - Prīsciānī Institutionum Grammaticarum Librī XIII-XVIII by M. Hertz (1859).
Vol. IV - Probī Dōnātī Serviī Dē Arte Grammaticā Librī, white scan by T. Mommsen (1864).
Vol. V - Artium Scrīptōrēs Minōrēs, white scan by H. Keil (1868).
Vol. VI - Scrīptōrēs Artis Metricae:
🔸 Vol. VI/1 by H. Keil (1874).
🔸 Vol. VI/2 by H. Keil (1923).
🔸 Vol. VI 1+2 white scan.
Vol. VII - Scrīptōrēs Dē Orthographīā, white scan - Terentius Scaurus, Vēlius Longus, Caper Agroecius, Cassiodōrius Martyrius,
Bēda Albīnus & aliī by H. Keil (1880).
Supplēmentum - Anecdota Helvetica Quae Ad Grammaticam Latīnam Spectant by H. Hagen (1870).
A Lexicon of Ancient Latin Etymologies by R. Maltby, starring Isidore of Seville (1991) - all the explicitly attested etymologies of Latin
antiquity, covering glossaries and scholia as well as standard ancient etymological source-works.
Tools
Virtual Language Observatory - helps you find various resources on the net.
Computational Historical Semantics - provides a database of Latin texts for statistical tasks and a morphological structured Medieval
Latin Lexicon. All texts are lemmatized and ready for comparative analysis of word frequencies.
Treebanks - Corpora of Syntactic Dependency Trees
Treebanking is the activity of annotating texts syntactically. It is part of a relatively new field of research exploring the potential of
linguistic annotation for a great variety of purposes, ranging from natural language processing tasks, such as machine translation or
summarization, to linguistic research, where computational treatment of data has been significantly impacting method and results in
linguistics. Finally removes the necessity to mark your Tacitus with 13 different colour pens.
Arethusa - accessible within Perseids (login page), the free web-based, fully audited, version-controlled editing environment.
Instructions, existing treebanks, screencasts & videos. Also hosts the Alpheios Alignment Editor (its site) which aligns translations.
Some more Arethusa-created treebanks on the self-hosted treebank blogging project Gardener.
Academic Literature
A Companion to the Latin Language by J. Clackson (2011) - “Internationally renowned classicists, linguists, and Latin language
specialists offer contributions on topics such as Latin language sources; the linguistic structure of Latin; the idioms and styles
characteristic of a range of Latin literary registers; and the social and political contexts of the language.” Ask and it shall answer.
The Blackwell History of the Latin Language by J. Clackson, G. Horrocks (2007) - quite accessible, but rather wordy to the initiated.
Graeco-Latina Brunensia - a scholarly peer reviewed journal which publishes contributions from the fields of Classical Philology,
Classical Archeology, Ancient History, Medieval Studies, Byzantine Studies and later development of the Greek and Latin
languages.
By J.N. Adams
The Vulgar Latin of the Letters of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII, 467-72) by J. N. Adams (1977).
The Latin Sexual Vocabulary, mirror by J.N. Adams (1982) - don’t miss out on the dirty stuff.
The Latinity of C. Novius Eunus by J.N. Adams (1990) - “The linguistically important copies of legal documents written by the
freedman C. Novius Eunus in Campania in 37 and 29 CE”.
Bilingualism and the Latin Language by J.N. Adams (2003) - “This book deals systematically with communication problems in the
Roman world where numerous languages apart from Latin and Greek were spoken.”
The Regional Diversification of Latin 200BC - AD600 by J. N. Adams (2007) - “This is the most comprehensive treatment ever
undertaken of the regional diversification of Latin throughout its history in the Roman period.”
Social Variation and the Latin Language by J.N. Adams (2013) - “This book is a history of many of the developments undergone by
the Latin language as it changed into Romance, demonstrating the varying social levels at which change was initiated.”
An anthology of informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900: fifty texts with translations and linguistic commentary by J.N. Adams (2016),
hallowed by his name. Compliments the previous book.
Non-literary Latin & Romance
Sermō Vulgāris Latīnus - Vulgärlateinisches Lesebuch by G. Rohlfs (1956) - Plautus to inscriptions, poems, Fredegar & late glosses.
Le latin vulgaire des inscriptions pompéiennes by V. Väänänen (1966) - an older yet standard work on the subject, very readable.
Introduction au latin vulgaire by V. Väänänen (1967, 1981) - ditto as above.
On the Latin of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII, 467-472) by C. Lehmann (1988).
Le latin vulgaire/Vulgar Latin by J. Herman, tr. R. Wright (1967, rev. 1997, tr. 2000) - a concise but relatively up-to-date manual with
useful bib. Not a grammar, which is just as well considering that what it describes is not a distinct linguistic system.
L’archivio di Claudius Tiberianus da Karanis by S. Strassi (2008).
The non-literary Latin letters. A study of their syntax and pragmatics by H. Halla-aho (2009) - “This work is about the language of
Latin letters: letters sent by a whole range of people who lived more than 1700 years ago — people writing to authorities, superiors,
colleagues, or to their friends and family. How did they write? And what does this tell us about their language skills, about the
language of Latin letter-writing, and the Latin language of their time in general?”
Colloquial and Literary Latin by E. Dickey & A. Chahoud (2010) - a collection of essays by scholarly scholars inspired by Adams.
The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages by M. Maide, J.C. Smith, A. Ledgeway (eds.) - can’t confirm that it’s “the most
comprehensive survey of the history of the Romance languages ever published in English”, but can confirm it’s bretty gud:
The Handbook of Latin Inscriptions by W.M. Lindsay (1897) - good old Walter has it all.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy by Ch. Bruun, J. Edmondson (2014) - is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study
and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date, showing why inscriptions matter and how to utilise epigraphy in your research.
Latin Inscriptions on Lacus Curtius (search this doc for more) - at least 200 Etruscan and Roman inscriptions, plus a fair number of
Latin inscriptions from other periods, personally photographed, transcribed, translated and put into context. Also has a sort of a
course in epigrpahy.
Manuscrits Médiévaux - including the France and England Project: medieval manuscripts between 700 and 1200; stunning highlights
of illuminated manuscripts set by the British Library in their cultural and historical context; other manuscript-related resources.
The British Library: Medieval England and France, 700–1200 presents a curated selection of these highlighting various topics and
manuscripts. Readers may explore themes, such as history, illumination, science and manuscript making.
The letters of Claudius Terentianus to his probably-dad Tiberianus from early 2nd c. AD Africa, widely studied as an example of
common people's epistolary Latin - click on entry number, then under "More info" click on HGV (with images) or DDbDp. To view the
translation on HGV scroll down the bottom right window.
In somewhat more friendly format on papyri.info (no images).
The Vulgar Latin of the Letters of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII, 467-72) by J. N. Adams (1977).
On the Latin of Claudius Terentianus (P. Mich. VIII, 467-472) by C. Lehmann (1988).
L’archivio di Claudius Tiberianus da Karanis by S. Strassi (2008).
Anthologia latīna sīve poēsis latīnae supplēmentum, librī trēs by F. Buecheler, A. Riese, E. Lommatzsch (1868-1926) - carmina in
cōdicibus, carmina epigraphica, supplēmentum.
Dēfīxiōnum tabellae quotquot innotuērunt by A. Audollent (1904) - Latin & Greek apart from Attica, in German & Latin.
The Johns Hopkins Tabellae dēfīxiōnum by W.S. Fox (1912) - a solid commentary on 5 quite long curse tablets.
Literary Studies
Golden Latin Artistry by L.P. Wilkinson (1963) - “an exposition of the poetic techniques of Latin poets from Catullus through Ovid and
beyond. You might find it helpful for learning to read Latin poetry ‒ among other things, how the Latin hexameter works (not how to
scan, but rather the dynamics and music of the verse; the ability to scan is pre-supposed), and how the Latin poets use the
possibilities of an inflected language to shape word-order.”
A History of Roman Literature: From Livius Andronicus to Boethius by M. von Albrecht, G.L. Schmeling (1997) - a comprehensive
monography on the entirety of ancient Latin literature with special attention to its influence on subsequent centuries.
The Colloquia of the Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana Vol. 1 by Pseudo-Dositheus, E. Dickey (2012/15) - the Colloquia are
manuals written to help ancient Greeks and Romans get around in each other's languages. This book makes them accessible for the
first time by combining a new edition, translation and commentary with a ground-breaking, comprehensive study of their origins.
Learning Latin the Ancient Way: Latin Textbooks from the Ancient World by E. Dickey (2016) - the above made into a didactic
resource for a modern learner or teacher.
A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature by L. D. Reynolds & N. G. Wilson. TLDR: don’t trust either the
manuscripts or your book.
Catullus: A Textual Reappraisal on Google Books by J.M. Trappes-Lomax (2007) - recommends some six hundred changes to the
Oxford Text of R.A.B. Mynor. PDF sought-after.
History
Extensive write up about the Punic Wars in Latin with diagrams, maps, etc.
History of the Republic in 10 minutes of Intermediate Latin by Reginaldus Mercator.
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World by R.J.A. Talbert (2000) - 1.4GB of high quality scans of what is a large-format
English language atlas of ancient Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The time period depicted is roughly from archaic Greek civilization
(pre-550 BC) through Late Antiquity (640 AD).
Corner of shame
Cambridge Latin Course resources
CLC 4th edition book 1 & book 2
Wheelock’s 7th edition
Wheelock’s 6th edition with reader
A couple of Wheelock’s readers to lessen the damage and ease your pain