This weekend you will continue reading the Second Punic War portion of Eutropius’ Breviarium historiae Romanae.  This second section still 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–or cut and paste the text below into a new document) and bracket off any subordinate clauses in the text.

L. Postumius Albinus Cn. Fulvius Centumalus consules bellum contra Illyrios gesserunt et multis civitatibus captis etiam reges in deditionem acceperunt. Ac tum primum ex Illyriis triumphatum est.

L. Aemilio consule ingentes Gallorum copiae Alpes transierunt. Sed pro Romanis tota Italia consensit, traditumque est a Fabio historico, qui ei bello interfuit, DCCC milia hominum parata ad id bellum fuisse. Sed res per consulem tantum prospere gesta est. XL milia hostium interfecta sunt et triumphus Aemilio decretus.

Aliquot deinde annis post contra Gallos intra Italiam pugnatum est, finitumque bellum M. Claudio Marcello et Cn. Cornelio Scipione consulibus. Tum Marcellus cum parva manu equitum dimicavit et regem Gallorum, Viridomarum nomine, manu sua occidit. Postea cum collega ingentes copias Gallorum peremit, Mediolanum expugnavit, grandem praedam Romam pertulit. Ac triumphans Marcellus spolia Galli stipiti inposita umeris suis vexit.

Latin Poetry

Work on your Latin poems this weekend!

Myth Tradition

Remember that your Myth Journal for unit 18 will contain the following: character identifications and answers to questions in syllabus packet, the Euripides’ Medea worksheet completed in class, and your notes on the character of Medea as presented by your classmates.  Remember that the Jason presentation and the Medea article were posted in yesterday’s entry!

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!

Study for Exam 5 tomorrow!

• 20 questions on grammar: temporal clauses for composition lesson 19, and grammar points contained on pages 71-89 of FabRom.
• 30 questions on history: review stories on pp.71-89 and history readings from Coriolanus to Camillus in photocopies from Chronicle of the Roman Republic.

Latin Poetry

If you did not finish translating lines 21-40 with your group today, you must finish that for tomorrow.  Your assignment tonight is to finish scanning and looking up vocabulary for Tibullus II.3.61-84 and Sulpicia II.

Myth Tradition

Finish reading Euripides’ Medea and answer any questions on the worksheet that you did not get to with your group today.

Remember that your exam for Unit V is on Thursday!  You should have started reviewing your grammar & history over the weekend.

Tonight you need to look up vocabulary for and identify the subordinate clauses in the second paragraph of p. 87 and p.89, the end of “The Gallic Invasion” in FabRom.

Latin Poetry

Scan and look up vocabulary for Tibullus II.3.41-60.

Myth Tradition

Read Euripides’ Medea and work on your Jason and Medea myth journal.  We spend three days in discussion and presentation of the Medea story and how it relates to the overall myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

Look up vocabulary for and identify the subordinate clauses for p. 85 and the first paragraph of p. 87 of “The Gallic Invasion” in FabRom.

Latin Poetry

Scan and look up vocabulary for Tibullus II.3.21-40

Myth Tradition

Make sure you’ve studied for your Hippolytus test by reviewing your notes on the article and completing the worksheet.

This weekend you start reading about the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BCE.  To help orient yourself in the history, please read sections 11 (Camillus’ Banishment) & 12 (The Sack of Rome) of C.M. Yonge’s Young Folks’ History of Rome.  Your Latin homework will be to look up the vocabulary for and identify the subordinate clauses ON YOUR PACKET for the first part of the Gallic Invasion story on p. 83 of FabRom.

If you’ve lost your packet you can download it here: Unit V

Latin Poetry

Work on your poems this weekend!  Remember that you need a draft of your 16-20 poem (it does not need to be complete, but you need to have a clear idea of where you want it to go!) by Friday of next week.  We’ll be working on them in groups that day, checking each other’s Latin and giving suggestions for improvement (word choice, order, getting you out of holes, etc.).

Myth Tradition

Use the weekend to get started on our next unit, Jason and Medea, by reading Apollodorus 1.9.16-1.9.28.  Your myth journal 17 due date and exam for Hippolytus will occur on Tuesday, January 24.

Today in class we fully identified the words/phrases in the lesson 19 sentences.  For tomorrow bring in those identifications and your translations of sentences 1-7, and 9.

Latin Poetry

Today we started our discussion of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.  In order to clear the decks for the weekend for working on your poem, scan and look up vocabulary for Tibullus II.3.1-20.

Myth Tradition

Today you worked in groups to complete a worksheet on Euripides Hippolytus.  That worksheet and your notes on the Mills article posted yesterday will comprise your Myth Journal for Unit 17.  Remember that because of Chinese New Year, our exam will be on TUESDAY.

Latin 3
Tonight you need to read Lesson 19 from your composition texts and then identify the words (case of nouns, adj, pron, participles & tense voice and mood of verbs) of the sentences in section 157:

1. I enjoyed my books as long as I remained there.
2. As soon as they saw the enemy, they fled.
3. When he had been informed of this, they started for Rome.
4. You ought to have gone before they came.
5. While he was delaying near the city, he met many of his friends.
6. Caesar waited for the soldiers to gather.
7. We will prevent them from going away.
8. He did not leave the city until he had seen her.
9. They did not refuse to believe me.

Latin Poetry
Check yesterday’s post to read the folklore link on the “Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”. Tonight you should finish scanning and look up any unknown words for lines 20-39. We will be going over the translation tomorrow.

Myth Tradition
Here is the article I handed out and we read together in class today: Historical Background on Euripides’ Hippolytus. Make sure you take 1-2 pages of notes on this article for your myth journal this week.

Latin Poetry
Tonight you begin Horace’s version of the town mouse and the country mouse. If you’re interested, go to http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0112.html to see other versions (including Aesop’s and La Fontaine’s). You will need to have a full vocabulary and scansion for lines 1-19 ready tomorrow.

Myth Tradition
Today you received your copies of Euripides Plays. Read as much of the tragedy Hippolytus as you can for tomorrow. We’ll be discussing its historical background and importance tomorrow.

Then the matrons went in a body to Veturia, the mother of Coriolanus, and Volumnia his wife. Whether this was in consequence of a decree of the senate, or simply the prompting of womanly fear, I am unable to ascertain, but at all events they succeeded in inducing the aged Veturia to go with Volumnia and her two little sons to the enemies’ camp. As men were powerless to protect the City by their arms, the women sought to do so by their tears and prayers. On their arrival at the camp a message was sent to Coriolanus that a large body of women were present. He had remained unmoved by the majesty of the State in the persons of its ambassadors, and by the appeal made to his eyes and mind in the persons of its priests; he was still more obdurate to the tears of the women. Then one of his friends, who had recognised Veturia, standing between her daughter-in-law and her grandsons, and conspicuous amongst them all in the greatness of her grief, said to him, “Unless my eyes deceive me, your mother and wife and children are here.” Coriolanus, almost like one demented, sprung from his seat to embrace his mother. She, changing her tone from entreaty to anger, said, “Before I admit your embrace suffer me to know whether it is to an enemy or a son that I have come, whether it is as your prisoner or as your mother that I am in your camp. Has a long life and an unhappy old age brought me to this, that I have to see you an exile and from that an enemy? Had you the heart to ravage this land, which has borne and nourished you? However hostile and menacing the spirit in which you came, did not your anger subside as you entered its borders? Did you not say to yourself when your eye rested on Rome, ‘Within those walls are my home, my household gods, my mother, my wife, my children?’ Must it then be that, had I remained childless, no attack would have been made on Rome; had I never had a son, I should have ended my days a free woman in a free country? But there is nothing which I can suffer now that will not bring more disgrace to you than wretchedness to me; whatever unhappiness awaits me it will not be for long. Look to these, whom, if you persist in your present course, an untimely death awaits, or a long life of bondage.” When she ceased, his wife and children embraced him, and all the women wept and bewailed their own and their country’s fate. At last his resolution gave way. He embraced his family and dismissed them, and moved his camp away from the City. After withdrawing his legions from the Roman territory, he is said to have fallen a victim to the resentment which his action aroused, but as to the time and circumstances of his death the traditions vary. I find in Fabius, who is by far the oldest authority, that he lived to be an old man; he relates a saying of his, which he often uttered in his later years, that it is not till a man is old that he feels the full misery of exile. The Roman husbands did not grudge their wives the glory they had won, so completely were their lives free from the spirit of detraction and envy. A temple was built and dedicated to Fortuna Muliebris, to serve as a memorial of their deed.

Make sure to read and take notes on the Cincinnatus story from the packet I handed out in class today. We will discuss the Decemvirs and the Twelve Tables next week.

Latin Poetry
Scan and translate Horace ode 3.13 (you can find a description of the meter in Monday’s post!).

Myth Tradition
See yesterday’s post for a full description of the essay due Tuesday.

Make sure to finish your myth journal and study the presentation for your half-test on Theseus on Tuesday. You can download the presentation here: Theseus, the mini-Heracles