Lingua Latina survived

While searching for information on the long defunct Nature Method Language Institute, I ran across an old advertisement. At one time there were French, Spanish, English, Russian and Latin books in the series.   Only the Latin book, Lingua Latina, survived. I have...

Henle Latin and transcripts

Henle Latin and transcripts   I’ll get to Henle Latin and transcripts in just a moment.   First, I need to let you know that I have been up to something this summer. This summer I have decided to go a different direction.   I was going to teach some summer...

Graduating? Need some Latin quotes? Here you go.

Every now and then I get requests like this one. Hi! I want to put a Latin message on my daughter’s Graduation sign for our yard.  Do you have any ideas? Thanks! Here is my reply: How about Per aspera ad astra.” It means, to the stars through difficulties....

Henle Latin Grammar #739

I received this question: Hi. I have a quick question for you. My son and I are stumped on Henle’s explanation of intransitive verbs. In Henle grammar 739 it says that intransitive verbs take a sole object in the dative. The example sentence is “The wind...