[B-Greek] Anybody Have Suggestions for a LONT (Latin Outside the New Testament) List, like the GRONT List for Greek?

Dewayne Dulaney dewayne.dulaney at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 21:06:04 EDT 2011


Χαιρετε πασιν· (CAIRETE PASIN)

I apologize for the cross-posting, but hopefully it will pass muster.

As a self-taught Latinist wannabe who has read more of the Vulgate
than Classical or Patristic and later Latin authors, I was wondering
if any of our list members who also work with Latin has ever developed
a LONT list (Latin Outside the New Testament), like the GRONT list for
Greek that appeared here earlier. Barry H, perhaps?

I recently read Pliny's letter to Trajan about the trials of
Christians and Trajan's reply (with reference to a facing English
translation) and it wasn't too difficult. (My Latin vocabulary and
grammar skills are at the first-year level, but I know Spanish and
French well, which helps a lot.) I've also read excerpts from Pliny's
description of the eruption of Vesuvius (the one that destroyed
Pompeii and Herculaneum), which weren't too hard either. But I found
the excerpts from Cicero's De Senectute (On Old Age) a little more
difficult. These selections, BTW, are all in the book "Latin
Selections|Florilegium Latinum", edited by Moses Hadas and Thomas
Suits, Bantam Books, 1961. I found it in a used book store some years
ago. I don't know if a newer edition is available. If it is, or if you
can find a used copy, I would recommend it to those like me who want
to learn Latin, or improve their skills. I currently am reading
excerpts there of Cicero's First Oration Against Cataline and plan to
read the full text of his De Amicitia next.

Naturally, the more vocab and grammar one knows, the easier any author
is to read. I am continuing my Latin studies, so I am working to
improve this. (BTW, the Latin counterpart to ΣΧΟΛΗ, SCHOLA
(http://schola.ning.com/), is a good place to practice Latin for
communication, as is Textkit.)

I would appreciate any suggestions about the level of difficulty of
various Latin authors (including Patristic and Renaissance/Reformation
ones) compared to the Vulgate, either on- or offlist.

Dewayne Dulaney

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