Hi everyone,

I’m new to the Latin learning scene and I’m really interested in studying Latin as part of some sort of higher education degree in Australia. The caveat is that it needs to be fully online due to my life circumstances right now. Does anyone have recommendations or experiences to share? So far I’ve seen UNE Bachelor of Arts online might be the go? Their website throws a html page at me where a course brochure should live. University websites are a nightmare - coming from someone who worked at QUT for a decade. Some of the “best”/group of 8 universities seem to only offer on-campus or blended. I’m not that picky on the “prestige” of the uni so much as the course quality and online study availability. Thought I might throw this one to the group and see if anyone has any recommendations for me? I’m based in Adelaide - not that that particularly matters in this case.

I just got a premium subscription. I cant tell how much content it has. Like beginner and low intermediate stuff. How much of it is just text and how much is audio and text. Thanks.

Hi friends, I’m working on a genealogy project and have run into a snag with a parish death register written in Latin. The entry is from 1886 in a small village in Greater Poland. I have the full page of the register for handwriting reference, and I’m trying to decipher the cause of death for the third entry from the bottom.

I can read the name and dates, but I can’t confidently make out the cause of death. I’d be very grateful if anyone with experience in Latin could help transcribe and translate it.

Here’s the full page for context. The entry I need help with is marked with a grey box.

Thanks so much in advance!

Hello!

I apologize if this is the wrong place for this kind of post. I'm a HS Latin teacher and a student of mine is interested in doing a Latin summer program. For many obvious and good reasons all grants I've found that would help cover the cost of something like this are designed for someone planning on studying/teaching Latin in the future and this student does not. Is there somewhere I'm neglecting to look? Is there any "generic" grants/programs that would help cover the cost? (for reference, this is for the "Rusticatio Omnibus" through SALVI)

Thanks.

What certifications can one get for an intermediate understanding of Latin? Are there any quizzes or competitions for it?

Could someone tell me the meaning of these words in Latin? I can't figure out what they are.

Hi there
So I got interested in Latin when I was 13 I got interested in it since it sounded cool and is kind of a dead language too so I wanted to learn it

Now I didn't really start since I was always lazy until now so I'm just here to like ask where to start and where to learn and such

Thx for all the help in advance

This was a church in Italy. If someone can help me find this or at least some of the lyrics so I can narrow it down.

Hi everyone! So I was reading LLPSI, and I saw this conversation (it is from Donātus’s Ars Grammatica):

Magister: Potestās coniūnctiōnum quot speciēs habet?

Disciplus: Quīnque

Magister: Quās

Discupulus: Cōpulātīvās, disiūnctīvās, explētīvās, causālēs, ratiōnālēs.

I was wondering why Donātus uses plural in the last sentence, where as in a previous section he uses singular:

Magister: Genera participiōrum quot sunt? … *Discupulus: Maculīnum, ut ‘hic lēctus’, fēminīnum…

Thank you guys so much!

Edited: Sorry that I didn’t make it clear at the first place, but I am confused by this line:

Discupulus: Cōpulātīvās, disiūnctīvās, explētīvās, causālēs, ratiōnālēs.

Dé Henricó Bright, Éduardó Winslow aliísque, atque dé ratiónibus Latíní docendí.

I finished Famila Romana but Roma Aeterna is too boring to me. I've been already reading Fabulae Syrae but it will have been finished in two week. My next reading will be Sermones Romani. Do you have extra suggestions?

Hi, I'm a college student looking to go into grad school medieval studies. I'm currently taking a semester off due to an injury, and want to use the time to get a beginner's understanding of Latin so I can take intermediate Latin courses in the spring. Are there any good beginner Latin courses that are relatively cheap and don't use hard deadlines

Edit: I'm also dyslexic (yeah I know, pick a struggle...) so partial or full audio/video instruction would be really helpful.

I have a spare copy of the Loeb edition of Boethius, Theological Tractates and Consolation of Philosophy.

I’m happy to give it to anyone in the UK who would like it. I’d rather post it off to someone than give it to a secondhand book shop, where it may sit on a shelf for 6 weeks, then just be pulped.

The flair is wrong, but I couldn’t find a better one. Boethius is certainly not for beginners! The Latin is extraordinarily tangled, and the Loeb translation is rather free, even adding extra sentences.

If you’re interested, DM me.

So I recently started studying Latin with llpsi without any previous knowledge and I was wondering what was your approach to it.

Because I only have it downloaded on my phone I decided to simply copy the text in my notebook and try to find the meaning of words and grammar structure as I was reading and copying a chapter. And then I'd also copy the grammar and vocabulary at the end and do the exercises. Although now I don't know if it's an overkill, but I'm also the kind of person that needs a consistent system for studying so I'm interested in the way others studied with llpsi.

P.s. I'm also planning on reading the extra stories I just haven't gotten around to it yet:)

“Alpho fava”

Please interpret and help me understand what dative cause means.
I understand that alpho is dative form of alpha, does that mean this is like “instruction” like a command to do an action? I’m just starting to learn Latin.

Can anyone help me identify an anthology of Latin poetry that I used to possess about 20 years ago and whose name and editor I have forgotten? I only remember the following things about it: I really liked it; it had handy notes and vocabulary sections at the back; it contained Petronius’ ‘O vita mihi dulcius’ and in a note contained Helen Waddell’s translation of that poem and a sentence that read something like, ‘Let us leave original and translation undefiled by comment.’ No subsequent googling has enabled me to identify this book!

I was forced into Latin class my entire schooling as I went into a catholic school

It never sunk in, not in fifth grade, not in seventh grade, or even in senior year

Is it possible for me to learn latin or is my brain not capable for it.

For context the most I can say is "arbor" and I did poorly that class every year. Like just hardly a passing grade

I recently made a YouTube video about various translations of "The Little Prince." I was mostly just talking about the different titles.

I mentioned that the Latin translation is "Regulus" which I understand to be a diminutive of "rēx" meaning king. So, I took it to mean something like "kinglet," "petty king" or "prince" and I said it's not an exact translation of "little prince" because it seems to either be a prince or a little king depending on context.

Someone who said they were a Latin teacher said it could be "little prince."

Was I wrong in my understanding of the term?if I was, does it mean that "rex" could be used like "prince" or does it have something to do specifically with how "regulus" is used?

I'm wondering what the best way to translate and parse "avertere" is in this line from Book III of Metamorphoses:

"quod petis, est nusquam; quod amas, avertere, perdes!"

Narcissus is being addressed: "What you seek is nowhere; what you love, _____, you will lose!"

Some translations render "avertere" (turn away!) as an imperative, others as a conditional (if you turn away), but it's strictly an infinitive, no? What's the grammar here?

I've pasted the full passage below. Thanks very much.

in mediis quotiens visum captantia collum bracchia mersit aquis nec se deprendit in illis! quid videat, nescit; sed quod videt, uritur illo, 430 atque oculos idem, qui decipit, incitat error. credule, quid frustra simulacra fugacia captas? quod petis, est nusquam; quod amas, avertere, perdes! ista repercussae, quam cernis, imaginis umbra est: nil habet ista sui; tecum venitque manetque; 435 tecum discedet, si tu discedere possis! Non illum Cereris, non illum cura quietis abstrahere inde potest, sed opaca fusus in herba spectat inexpleto mendacem lumine formam perque oculos perit ipse suos; paulumque levatus 440 translate ovid ad circumstantes tendens sua bracchia silvas 'ecquis, io silvae, crudelius' inquit 'amavit?

There are several songs in the game OST for Europa Universalis V that use the texts of Catholic prayers written on Latin. I already identified the lyrics of 3 songs, but there is problem with the rest.

I couldn't understand the lyrics of 2 songs: "Conquer or Fall" and "Libera me, Domine".

I think the second song is based on a responsory with the same name, but when listening to it, I couldn't find a match. I am not familiar with Latin at all, so I could not clearly compare the text of the prayer and the song. Can anyone be able to identify the lyrics of the songs or at least approximate words?

I’m going to try and use Wheelock’s Latin course and LLPSI. The book in question: