![]() Helpfully, the author has rated each sentence/passage in level of difficulty, on a five-point scale from I=Introductory Level to A=Advanced. Vocabulary words in the sentences that were not previously seen in the Wheelock lessons are immediately glossed below each of the sentences. There’s poetry and prose here, theology, history, liturgy, Scripture…the works!ĭelving into the chapters, readings are seen to be presented with the utmost care. Jerome, Augustine, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas (and many more!) towards the end. ![]() I like this book a lot, because it has a broad array of interesting sources very relevant to Church Latinists, lots of practice reading from the Divine Office, the Vulgate, as well as Sts. ![]() So it’s as if the Sententiae Antiquae at the end of each chapter in the Wheelock textbook were presented not in Classical Latin, but in Church Latin! It really is a nice book: sentences and selections are arranged according to each chapter of Wheelock’s Latin, going along with the pace of the textbook’s difficulty and introduction of vocabulary.
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