Latin 3
Tonight you will begin reading the Second Punic War portion of Eutropius’ Breviarium historiae Romanae. This first section covers the years 241-218 BC, which fall between the first and the second Punic Wars. You will need to make a list of the vocabulary you don’t know on a separate sheet of paper (at least 20 words) and bracket off any subordinate clauses in the text.
Finito igitur Punico bello, quod per XXIII annos tractum est, Romani iam clarissima gloria noti legatos ad Ptolomaeum, Aegypti regem, miserunt auxilia promittentes, quia rex Syriae Antiochus bellum ei intulerat. Ille gratias Romanis egit, auxilia a Romanis non accepit. Iam enim fuerat pugna transacta. Eodem tempore potentissimus rex Siciliae Hiero Romam venit ad ludos spectandos.
L. Cornelio Lentulo Fulvio Flacco consulibus, quibus Hiero Romam venerat, etiam contra Ligures intra Italiam bellum gestum est et de his triumphatum. Carthaginienses tamen bellum reparare temptabant, Sardinienses, qui ex condicione pacis Romanis parere debebant, ad rebellandum impellentes. Venit tamen Romam legatio Carthaginiensium et pacem impetravit.
T. Manlio Torquato C. Atilio Bulco consulibus de Sardis triumphatum est, et pace omnibus locis facta Romani nullum bellum habuerunt, quod his post Romam conditam semel tantum Numa Pompilio regnante contigerat.
Latin Poetry
Since you should have all your Tibullus and Sulpicia scanning and looking up of unknown vocabulary caught up at this point, you should only need to be working on the drafts of your Elegiac poems tonight. You MUST HAVE A DRAFT WITH YOU TOMORROW.
Myth Tradition
Today we went through the presentation of the Jason story: Jason and the Argonauts
Your group was also assigned a portion of The Character of Medea to present to the class tomorrow. Make sure you read the whole article and take notes on it this weekend!
