Sermones Romani

This text provides readings from Latin authors for students who have completed the first book in the Lingua Latina series, Familia Romana. As with all Lingua Latina materials, the text and notes are all in Latin. The previous booklet Plautus: Menaechmi is now included here (pp. 21-28).

Presented via the natural method by Hans ÌÎÌárberg,Sermones Romani allows introductory students to read lightly altered Latin texts. Through his innovative system of marginal notes, Hans ÌÎÌárberg introduces the reader to the language and thought of ancient Rome through short readings by Cicero, Tacitus, Martial and others. Sermones Romani can be read immediately following ÌÎÌárberg‰ۡó»s first year elementary text, Familia Romana (Lingua Latina Pars I), also available from Focus.

Lingua Latina is a complete, universal series that allows students to read and understanding Latin immediately. All words and forms are made clear in the context of reading, illustrations, or marginal notes. The series itself consists of a first year books, Part I: Familia Romana covering the essentials of Latin grammar and 1500 vocabulary words through a story of a Latin family in the 2nd Century A.D. The second book, Part II: Roma Aeterna, cover Roman History and the city of Rome, including a prose version of Virgil's Aeneid I-IV, adapted texts from Livy, and unadapted texts from Livy, Aulus Gellius, Nepos, Sallust, Cicero and Horace.

80pp, Softcover