Which chapter, in the LLPSI Familia Romana, is the hardest of all?
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Hardest text of Familia Romana
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For me, it was Cap. XXXIV, because poetry is usually more difficult, and there's a lot of it in there.
Hard to say, but the one I remember having some trouble with was Cap. XVI (Tempestās). I've just re-read it and I can't really tell what parts caused me difficulties back then, but I'd still say this one. All in all, I think the book is so well done that none of the chapters seemed noticeably harder than the previous one except when a new confusing concept was introduced.
I haven't completed the book, but thus far capituli viii and xiii have been the hardest. In capitulo viii there are way too many pronouns introduced. Capitulum xiii is tedious because it is filled with more abstract things pertaining to dates and seasons.
For me it was capitulum octavum. The whole idea of the ablative of price was not something that my poor head took to at all. Sure, I could understand it and remember it without difficulty, but when reading it was like a speed bump on the road. I'd have to slow down, and think this means X, and it took the fluency out of my reading even at such a simple level. Eventually I got there by what could be called 'brute force association '. I just read it and read it till I didn't have to stop and think any more, but it took a long time.
The explanations of how verse works in that chapter is the clearest explanation I've come across, even though it's written in Latin.
The next class, we had a test on the Roman calendar. We were to convert Gregorian dates to Roman dates and vice-versa.... luckily enough, because I was a geek to Latin, I had perfectly learnt that some day prior to it... That was one thing I completely removed from my mind in the next years, the most useless thing to learn in Latin
(that is, unless you count knowing that Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March etc.)
nefas!That was one thing I completely removed from my mind in the next years, the most useless thing to learn in Latin
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Hodiē, putā, diēs decimus sextus mēnsis Jūliī (Jūliī Dīvī!
minime, apud nos est a.d. xvi Kal. Aug.
Nonnē tib vīs "... Kal. Sextīlēs" scrībere? Nōn sat Ciceroniānus es!
equidem malo Plautinum esse nihilominus nonne Christiano modo est Festum Alexii Confessoris?
nihilominus nonne Christiano modo est Festum Alexii Confessoris?
Yes, all of those forms of quis, qui, is, and ille: I found them easy to read, probably because of previous study, but difficult to master, by which I mean that I would be able to use the proper forms when generating speech or writing.
is something that I barely noticed when reading, but that, too, is something that tripped me up a little when trying to master the material. Not as much, though, as the pronouns in Cap. VIII.