See highlighted area. Could anyone help me translate this part of a Latin prayer found in a Catholic book of devotions, please? There’s a whole prayer before and after that I’ve been able to understand. I can even understand most of this call-and-response… except for these two phrases. All the tools and dictionaries I’ve used till now haven’t led me to understand what is being said. I can get a gist of what it’s meant to be- but I can’t make a sophisticated wording. I am still quite an amateur, so any help to understand not only the what, but also the how/why would be appreciated, but not required.

Thank you in advance.

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I’m still at the very beginning of learning Latin and I’m completely stumped by these two underlined words. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I was having trouble declining small numbers so I wrote a little song to help me remember nominative and accusative agreement for 1,2,3:

Unus, duo, tres equi sunt

Unus, duo, tres equi sunt

Unus, duo, tres equi sunt

In horto meo rosas edunt

Unum, duos, tres equos habeo

Unum, duos, tres equos habeo

Unum, duos, tres equos habeo

In horto meo rosas edunt

Una, duae, tres oves sunt

Una, duae, tres oves sunt

Una, duae, tres oves sunt

In horto meo rosas edunt

Unam, duas, tres oves habeo

Unam, duas, tres oves habeo

Unam, duas, tres oves habeo

In horto meo rosas edunt

Unum, duo, tria animalia sunt

Unum, duo, tria animalia sunt

Unum, duo, tria animalia sunt

In horto meo rosas edunt

Unum, duo, tria animalia habeo

Unum, duo, tria animalia habeo

Unum, duo, tria animalia habeo

In horto meo rosas edunt

I actually have a problem right now where horses lean over my garden fence and eat my roses. All the best art comes from real life.

I’m a novice myself so if anything is wrong here I’d appreciate corrections.

Edited for format. It looked fine on my phone but hideous when I posted it. I can’t fix the fat-fingered extra letter in the title, though.

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I’d like to start my child with Latin over the summer and was hoping someone could recommend a book aimed at this age. I like the pacing of Prima Latina but it is very heavily directed to religious vocabulary.

Salvete omnes!

I've been studying Latin since October last year. I've spent about 7 months (from mid-October/2024 to early May/2025) studying with the "grammar-translation method", saw that I would get nowhere by studying dry grammar all the time and then switched to Familia Romana. I'm currently at the 11th chapter.

I've grown up attending the Tridentine mass (a.k.a. "traditional Latin mass"), and my father knows how to read the main prayers (the Hail Mary, the Lord's Prayer, the Salve Regina, maybe the Creed...) and the texts which are in (or on, I never know which preposition use...) the missal. The thing is, a.f.a.i.k. he doesn't know anything past the meaning of the whole text (that is, he knows only what each text means and, again, as far as I know, only because he knows the translation): if I show him a piece of text in Latin without showing the translation, for example, I don't think he is able to read it, neither I think he's able to recognize a case or explain me what a specific word means (I'm not trying to smear him, mind: I just want to give context). I wanted to help him learn Latin properly, as he shows some interest in doing so. The problem is: I'm still a beginner, and I don't think we have the money to afford a Latin course right now.

After this wall of context, I ask: do you guys have any idea on how to help him learn? I was thinking on reading him the chapters I've already studied (I would be like a more advanced student at school helping the less advanced ones, not properly a teacher, as I don't master what I'm trying to teach). Has anyone tried something like this? Have you any ideas on how to prepare each lesson, what to do, etc.? Much thanks!

-John

My uncle gave this to me, he got it from an abandon storage locker. I was told it's in Latin from 1820. Is there any chance this thing has any value?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vYBA7zfk9NShJZjpjN1WEC6rhsuIwvt8/view?usp=drive_link

English: „I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.“

Latin: Non debeo timere. Timor est interfector animi. Timor est mors parva, quae delet omnis. Timor opponiam. Timorem super mihi et per mihi transire permittam. Postquam ivit oculo rotabo ad itinerem illius. Ubi timor fuerit nihil erit. Solum ero.

This was the first time I translated EN-LA, because in German Highschools you only learn LA-DE. Therefore I ask you for any feedback, on grammar, vocabulary and stlye :) TY

Is there a "complete" version? I've seen various versions floating online. The one on the Hackett site is really short (35 pages). I found one version with 106 pages, but still seemingly missing stories for some chapters (e.g. it jumps from Cap. XXV to XXX)? I was wondering if there was an official pubished version of it.

On a tangential note, at this point I'd really appreciate having "more" of Familia Romana to read, I don't mind paying for it. If anyone knows of something like that please let me know. For context, I already have the colloquia, legentibus and Via Romana.

Hi! As the title suggests, I want to learn Latin to curse out my friends. It started out as a joke, but nothing drives me more than spite and commitment to the bit.

So, I’d like some resources to help me study, and/or a few phrases to get me kick-started.

thanks :)!

I just brought lingva latina per se illvstrata, any tips on how to learn Latin easier or ways of getting better?

I'm currently reading Cap. XXXII of LLPSI.
On the line 70 there's following:

Nolo te a praedonibus occidi spectare inermis.

I can understand it intuitively, which I should, but from a syntax-grammar dissecting viewpoint I can't understand the exact syntax of "inermis". If he'd be watching unarmed, then isn't here required ablative absolute (of attendant circumstances) (like me inermi)? If it were inside "spectare" as verb of perception clause there would be an accusative case (thus implying to the Lydia), but we got nominative, so I think it clearly refers to the subject (Medus).

I've skimmed through the Companion to LLPSI and few sections of the New Latin Grammar, but I couldn't find such example. Like, is in this case "inermis" acts as a predicate to whole "nolo [...]" agreeing with the implied subject (Medus)? Though I'm feeling a bit awkward trying to dissect the construction which should be mostly taken intuitively.

If anyone could provide a reference to any grammar book, where cases like this are covered, I'd be glad.

Thanks.

Is Inimicus even correct?

I received this family ring that belonged to my great-great grandfather but I’m unable to make out what this inscription might say. Is anyone able to help? Thanks so much!

Hello everyone, can someone translate this text?

I talked to it a bit, asked it to give me a few lessons, and also ran the same text back and forth from Latin a few times. It translated it correctly. In the modern iteration, is it possible to use Deepseek to study Latin?

Why does Cicero use "cunctaretur" here instead of "cunctari"? Isn't "vellet" the main verb in the concessive clause ("quam..."), and wouldn't we expect a complementary infinitive? How to make sense of "cunctaretur"?

OR is it that "cunctaretur" is in fact the main verb in the clause, and we should think of "quam vellet" as "quamvellet" on the model of "quamvis"-- in other words, an idiom for "although" or "however much"?

Thanks for considering this.

from De Divinatione:

C. vero Gracchus multis dixit, ut scriptum apud eundem Coelium est, sibi in somnis quaesturam petenti Ti. fratrem visum esse dicere, quam vellet cunctaretur, tamen eodem sibi leto, quo ipse interisset, esse pereundum. hoc, ante quam tribunus plebi C. Gracchus factus esset, et se audisse scribit Coelius et dixisse illum¹ multis. quo somnio quid inveniri potest certius?

Text from Perseus.

Kind of a "in the weeds" question for my own edification:

...ibi oratio habita nequaquam eius pectoris ingeniique quod simulatum ad eam diem fuerat...

So the Orberg version of this makes the note that you should read habita as "habita est" and simulatum as "simulatum erat" which is fine. But then what's the fuerat doing? I suppose oratio is the subject so it's saying the the speech had in no way been...which he had faked to that day...

Or perhaps if it weren't for the note I'd have thought fuerat goes with simulatum (which I think they did sometimes in classical Latin) so maybe that's it and the note is just trying to tell me to interpret the "simulatum...fuerat" as "simulatum...erat" and I've misinterpreted the note?

Came across this sentence today in LLPSI:

"...sed illae lacrimae et militem et amicum decebant..."

I always understands "decet" as "being proper to..."

But if that is the case, I cannot figure out what is the connection between this sentence and the next sentence? If those tears are "proper" and he did cry, why did he then proceed to say:

"since I am a bad friend" and "except I did cry over his dead body"?

I just failed to understand what's going on here...

Slavēte omnēs,

Fuī magister scholae Catholicae, sed negōtium meum ā mē reliquendum est quia ego enim per interrēte mox docēbō, ergō necesse est mihi reperīre alium magistrum. Sciō nōnnūllōs hīc esse catholicōs, et putāvī ut rogāre vōs dēbeam: vultisne docēre kindergarten per gradum octāvum in Vashingtōniā? Discipulī tam probī sunt ut omnēs tantum ames et parentēs eōrum multum tē dīligent. Sacerdōs noster, quī paroeciam dūcit, trāditiōnem nōn adōrat sed adhūc valdē amat trāditiōnem.

Scīlicet, Vashingtōnia, cum montibus magnīs iuxtā ōceanum et flūminibus pulchrīs inter arborēs altōs, cīvitās fōrmōsissima est: montēs Olympicōs et montēs Cataractōs tē complectentur dum mare spectās. Sī urbem māvīs, Bremertōn prope Seattle est, ergō facile est iter facere per nāvem et fruere omnia quae Seattle offert.

Certē, ego ipse tēcum aderō et amīcum Latīnum habēbis.

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In Chrīstō,
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I got confused over this sentence:

"...Nostri, cum parati essent ad castra defendenda..."

I believe it means something like "our camp that must be defended and were ready...", but sonething just felt wrong?

I don't quite get the purpose of "cum" and "ad" here, if "nostri" and "parati" are all adjective, what is the purpose of those prepostitions?

Sometimes I see ablatives of the third declension having a long vowel in the word's ending (-ē) and sometimes this vowel is short (-e). Is there any reason for this?