Karen Moore Gaylan DuBose with Steven L. Jones Latin Alive!Latin Reader: Alive! LatinReader: Literature Latin Literature from Cicero from to Cicero Newton to Teacher’sNewton Edition © Classical Academic Press, 2014 Version 1.0 ISBN: 978-1-60051-200-1978-1-60051-201-8 All rights reserved. This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of Classical Academic Press. Classical Academic Press 2151 Market Street Camp Hill, PA 17011 www.ClassicalAcademicPress.com Scripture labeled “Vulgate” is taken from the Latin Vulgate. Subject Editor: Edward J. Kotynski Project Editor: Lauraine E. Gustafson Design: Lauraine E. Gustafson Banner image courtesy of Vector4Free/vecteezy.com Puzzle piece image courtesy of Vecto2000.com team/vecteezy.com pp. 76, 78: Image of Arria et Paetus sculpture by Pierre Lepautre and Jean-Baptiste Théodon courtesy of Neuceu via wikipedia.org pp. 79, 82: Image of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, courtesy of Berthold Werner via wikipedia.org p. 153: Image of Cambridge University Library courtesy of McAnt via wikipedia.org p. 161: Image of mosaic of a child playing with hoops courtesy of Prioryman via wikipedia.org p. 161: Image of Girl with a Hoop by Pierre-Auguste Renoir courtesy of AgnosticPreachersKid via wikipedia.org MVP.06.14 The excellent teacher will love students, kindle their imaginations, and instill a love of learning. Such a teacher, wrote Henry Adams, “affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” I have been blessed to have three such teachers in my life. Each one of them instilled in me a deep affinity for Latin literature, but even more they inspired me to share such literature with others. For any student who is blessed by something contained within these pages, you have been touched by the blessing of these dear people. It is with great admiration that I express my profound gratitude to Susan Fugate, who inspired me to become a Latin teacher; Bill Nethercut, whose enthusiasm for Latin and language is contagious; and Gaylan DuBose, who encouraged me to accomplish what I could not have earlier imagined. —Karen Moore The authors would like to express our profound gratitude to Lauraine Gustafson and Edward Kotynski, the editors who have so painstakingly worked to polish this book and the others in the Latin Alive! series. This has been a labor of love for us all, but it is to you we owe the beauty of this series. gratias maximas vobis agimus Latin Alive! ReaderLatin Teacher’s Alive! ReaderEdition Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................................................................. ix Introduction: “Latin’s Effective History” by Daniel Nodes, PhD ................................................................. 1 Part I: Readings Reading 1: Cicero ............................................................................................................................................... 15 50 BC: Marci Tullii Ciceronis Pro Archia Poeta Oratio (The Speech of Marcus Tullius Cicero on behalf of Archias the Poet) Reading 2: Cornelius Nepos (Cornelia Gracchi, c. 110-25 BC) .................................................................... 20 circa 110–25 BC: Epistula Corneliae Gracchorum (A Letter of Cornelia of the Gracchi) Reading 3: Caesar ............................................................................................................................................... 24 50 BC: G. Iuli Caesaris De Bello Gallico, Liber I: Cap. xxxiii-xxxvi (On the Gallic War of Julius Caesar, Book 1, Chapters 33–36) Reading 4: Catullus ............................................................................................................................................ 28 54 BC: Tria Poemata Gai Valeri Catulli (Three Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus) Reading 5: Vergil ................................................................................................................................................ 32 20 BC: Aeneid, Liber VIII: versüs dcviii–dccxxxi (Aeneid, Book 8, Ll. 608–731) Reading 6: Horace .............................................................................................................................................. 40 27 BC: Quattuor Poemata Quinti Horati Flacci (Four Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Reading 7: Ovid .................................................................................................................................................. 45 AD 17: P. Ovidï Näsönis Metamorphösum Liber IV: versüs lv–clxvi (Book 4, Ll. 55–166 of the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso) Reading 8: Aesop and Phaedrus ........................................................................................................................ 52 AD 50: Fabulae Breves (Brief Fables/Short Stories) Canis per Fluvium Carnem Ferëns (A Dog Carrying Meat through the River) Vulpes et Corvus (The Fox and the Crow) Canës et Crocodïlï (The Dogs and the Crocodiles) Socrates ad Amïcös (Socrates to his Friends) Reading 9: Seneca ............................................................................................................................................... 56 AD 64: L. Annaei Senecae Ad Novatvm de Ira Liber (Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s Book to Novatus on Anger) Reading 10: St. Luke .......................................................................................................................................... 61 AD 65: Evangelium Secundum Sanctum Lucam, Cap. II: versüs i–xx (The Gospel According to Saint Luke, Chapter 2, Verses 1–20) Reading 11: St. Matthew .................................................................................................................................... 64 AD 65: Evangelium Secundum Mattheum, Cap. XXVIII.i–xx (The Gospel According to Matthew 28:1-20 from the Latin Vulgate) Reading 12: Pliny the Elder ............................................................................................................................... 68 AD 77: Naturalis Historia, Liber XXXVI: Cap. xiv: Obeliscï Aegyptï (Natural History, Book 36, Chapter 14: Obelisks of Egypt) Reading 13: Quintilian ....................................................................................................................................... 72 AD 100: M. Fabii Qvintiliani Institvtio Oratoria Liber Primvs (Marcus Fabius Quintilian’s Institute of Oratory, First Book) Table of Contents Reading 14: Martial ............................................................................................................................................ 76 AD 102: Alia Epigrammata Martialis (Some Epigrams of Martial) Reading 15: Egeria .............................................................................................................................................. 79 AD 381: Perigrinatio Egeriae/Etheriae/Sylviae (The Pilgrimage of Egeria/Etheria/Sylvia) Reading 16: Augustine ....................................................................................................................................... 84 c. AD 397: Confessiones Sancti Augustini (The Confessions of Saint Augustine) Reading 17: St. Patrick ....................................................................................................................................... 88 AD 461: Confessiones Sancti Patricii (The Confessions of Saint Patrick) Reading 18: Cassiodorus ................................................................................................................................... 93 AD 585: Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus, Institutiones Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, Liber II (Principles of Divine and Secular Literature/Letters) Reading 19: Venerable Bede .............................................................................................................................. 97 AD 735: Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum Liber II: Cap. xiii (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book 2, Chapter 13) Reading 20: Einhard ......................................................................................................................................... 102 AD 800: Einhardi Vita Karoli Magni (Einhard’s Life of Charles the Great—Charlemagne) Reading 21: The Twenty-Five Barons ............................................................................................................ 107 AD 1215: Magna Carta, Anno Domini MCCXV (The Great Charter, in the Year of the/[our] Lord 1215) Reading 22: Thomas Aquinas ......................................................................................................................... 114 AD 1274: Summa Theologica: de vita contempletiva (A Theological Compendium/Summary: on/ about/concerning the contemplative life) Reading 23: Petrarch ........................................................................................................................................ 119 AD 1374: Epistola ad Marcum Tullium Ciceronem (A Letter to Marcus Tullius Cicero) Reading 24: Christopher Columbus ............................................................................................................... 123 AD 1506: Epistola Latina Columbi, selectiones (The Latin Letter of Columbus, selections) Reading 25: Martin Luther .............................................................................................................................. 128 AD 1517: Disputätio