Lingua Latina: Cap. VI Summary

Summary:
This chapter begins by discussing all of the different roads in Rome and where they lead to. Then, Iulius, Leander, Davus, Syrus, and Ursus leave their home to try and find the runaway slave, Medus. The narrator then shifts to Medus, who is on Via Latina, the road between Rome and Tusculum. It is also discovered that Cornelius, a friend of Iulius, is also traveling to Tusculum. Medus keeps walking away, while Iulius is carried by his servants. At the end of the chapter, Medus meets a friend, Lydia, who is happy to see him...

Vocabulary:
This chapter had no troubling vocabulary for me, as I knew most words and could use cimple context clues to figure out the rest. 

Grammar:
This chapter introduces the Passive voice. Also, there are accusative and ablative prepositions, new interrogative words, and the Locative Case. 

Lingua Latina: Cap. V Summary

Summary:
In this chapter, first, the narrator discusses who lives in the house and how it is a large family. Then, the main part of the story is devoted to discussing the structure of the Roman house, including doors, windows, Atrium, Peristylum, gardens, and bedrooms. Aemilia compliments Iulia and her roses, but Marcus and Quintus make fun of Iulia, saying she has an ugly nose, causing her to cry and run away. Then, Delia tells Aemilia that Quintus has fallen into the water-filled area of the Atrium because of Marcus, and is calling for help! Once again, the chapter ends with a cliffhanger. 

Vocabulary:
The only word that troubled me in this chapter was foedus, -i, which means ugly. 

Grammar:
The new grammar topics in this chapter were:

• Accusative and Ablative Prepositions
• Imperatives
• Neuter Gender
• Vocative Case
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Personal Pronouns 

Lingua Latina: Cap. IV Summary

Summary:
Iulius has a sack of money, and he starts off thinking that he has 100 coins. However, when Aemilia counts the coins in his bag, it is discovered that there are only 10 coins. When Davus is interrogated by Iulius, he claims that he does not know where the coins are and tells his master to ask Medus. Medus says that the coins are in Davus' bag, but when Iulius searches his bag, Davus is revealed to have been telling the truth, as he did not have any coins. However, when Medus sees this, he flees, as he is the thief of the coins and they are in his bag. When Iulius and Aemilia realize that Medus has departed, Iulius takes his stick and departs as well, trying to find his crooked slave as this chapter ends with a cliffhanger. 

Vocabulary:
There was no troubling or new vocabulary in this chapter. 

Grammar:
The new grammar topics that were introduced in the chapter were:

• The Vocative Case
• Imperative forms of verbs
• Possessive Adjectives
• Personal Pronouns
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Ablative Preposition (Place Where?)

Lingua Latina: Cap. III Summary

Summary:
In this chapter of the book, it is divided into scenes as it is a play. Marcus is not a well-behaved boy, as he punches his little, sister, Iulia. Standng up for the little girl, Quintus punches Marcus. Nevertheless, Marcus retaliates and punches Quintus, too. Quintus tells their mother, Aemilia, what happened, and she is very upset. She goes to beat Marcus as well. Finally, the father, Iulius, rises from his sleep, and when he finds out what is going on, he, too, beats his son, Marcus.

Vocabulary: 
In this chapter, the words "improbus" (immoderate, flagrant) and "pulsat" (beat, strike) confused me slightly at first, but I was able to use context clues to figure out their meanings. 

Grammar:
This chapter introduces more nouns in the accusative case, being used as direct objects. Also, new verbs are introduced in the chapter. Finally, demonstrative and relative pronouns are used throughout the chapter. 

Lingua Latina: Cap. II Summary

Summary:
In this chapter of the book, the reader learns about structure of the Roman family, extending from the master of the household down to the slaves and slave women. Julius and Aemilia are established as the parents who have two sons, Marcus and Quintus, along with a little girl, Julia. Medus and Davus are described as two of the slaves of Julius, and Delia and Syra are two of the slave women of Aemilia. Cornelius, another master, has a discussion with Davus about the size of their families and the number of slaves each family owns. Along with this, the book discusses its own format in the "Liber Tuus Latinus" section to end the chapter. 

Vocabulary: 
There was no troubling vocabulary in this chapter. It remained very basic and I already knew it all. 

Grammar: 
The grammar in this section was also relatively easy, as it was all previous material I had covered. Grammatical topics covered in this chapter included the different genders of nouns (masculine, feminine, neuter), and the Genitive case for showing family and relational ties. 

Lingua Latina: Cap. I Summary

Summary:
To begin with, the first paragraphs of the book describe the location of various nations in terms of what continent they are located in. Then, it moves on to discuss three different rivers and a few other islands in Europe, specifically about their location and their size. Finally, the last geographic topic discussed is the number of major cities in the Roman Empire, such as Sparta and Rome. To sum up that section of the first chapter, the extent of the immense Roman Empire is shown. 

The second half of the chapter is about letters and numbers, which are described first. Following that, different vocabulary words are shown in terms of the number of letters they contain and the number of syllables needed to say it. The chapter ends with a few more examples of all of these. 

Vocabulary & Grammar:
This first chapter of Lingua Latina was fairly simple to read, as there were no vocabulary words that troubled me when reading. Also, the grammar was very basic as well, extending only to singular and plural nouns and a few interrogative words. Linking verbs and adjectives were also used, and basically, the chapter introduces the reader to basic noun-adjective agreement.