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A HANDBOOK FOR
LATIN CLUBS
BY
SUSAN PAXSON
TEACHER OF LATIN IN THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
OMAHA, NEB.
D. C. HEATH & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
Copyright, 1916,
By D. C. Heath & Co.
PREFACE
The Latin Club in secondary schools is the result of the incessant demand that our Latin instruction must be vivified. Many teachers feel the need of supplementary work in their Latin teaching, but they have been handicapped because of a lack of material as well as a lack of time. This is especially true of the teacher in the small town. To help meet this demand is the purpose of this book.
The programs have purposely been made too long for one session in order that the teacher may have some choice in selection, and that, in case all references are not accessible, enough may be secured to insure a reasonably varied program.
I would suggest that the Club purchase as many Perry pictures and Berlin photographs of classical subjects as possible and that its members coöperate with the city library board for the purchase of such books as are essential, in case there is no school fund available for this purpose. Some high school alumnus in whose heart there is appreciation of Rome's gift to us might present a book to his Alma Mater. Another might offer some suitable magazines, properly bound.
Of a Latin Club, as of most school work, it may be said that usus est optimus magister, and especially applicable in this connection are the words of Horace: Dimidium facti, qui coepit.
Omaha, Nebraska,
June, 1916
CONTENTS
[Programs]
| The Value of Latin | [3] |
| Pompeii | [5] |
| Ancient Rome | [7] |
| The Roman Forum | [10] |
| The Roman House | [12] |
| Roman Slaves | [13] |
| Roman Children | [15] |
| Education among the Romans | [16] |
| Some Common Professions and Trades among the Romans | [17] |
| Roman Doctors | [19] |
| The Roman Soldier | [20] |
| Caesar | [21] |
| Cicero | [23] |
| Vergil | [25] |
| Horace | [27] |
| Roman Literature | [28] |
| Some Famous Women of Ancient Rome | [29] |
| Roman Holidays | [31] |
| Funeral Customs and Burial Places | [33] |
| Roman Games | [35] |
| Some Famous Buildings of Ancient Rome | [37] |
| Some Famous Roman Letters | [38] |
| Some Ancient Romans of Fame | [40] |
| A Roman Banquet | [42] |
| Roman Roads | [44] |
| Some Roman Gods | [46] |
| Some Famous Temples of Ancient and Modern Rome | [47] |
| Some Religious Customs | [49] |
| Some Famous Pictures and Sculpture | [51] |
| Roman Book and Libraries | [52] |
| Ancient Myths and Legends | [53] |
| The Ancient Myth in Modern Literature | [54] |
| What English Owes to Greek | [55] |
| Modern Rome | [56] |
| Italy of To-day | [58] |
| O Tempora! O Mores! | [60] |
[Selections that may be used for the Programs]
| A Plea for the Classics | Eugene Field | [65] |
| On an Old Latin Text Book | T. W. Higginson | [66] |
| St. Augustine's Love of Latin | Andrew Lang | [68] |
| The Watch of the Old Gods | [69] | |
| Old and New Rome | Herman Merivale | [70] |
| The Fall of Rome | Arthur Chamberlain | [70] |
| A Christmas Hymn | Alfred Dommett | [71] |
| Roman Girl's Song | Mrs. Hemans | [73] |
| Capri | Walter Taylor Field | [74] |
| Palladium | Matthew Arnold | [76] |
| After Construing | A. C. Benson | [77] |
| A Roman Mirror | Rennell Rodd | [78] |
| The Doom of the Slothful | John Addington Symonds | [79] |
| Hector and Andromache. Schiller | Tr. Sir E. B. Lytton | [80] |
| Enceladus | Henry W. Longfellow | [81] |
| Nil Admirari | John G. Saxe | [83] |
| Perdidi Diem | Mrs. Sigourney | [84] |
| Jupiter and His Children | John G. Saxe | [85] |
| The Prayer of Socrates | John H. Finley | [87] |
| By the Roman Road | Anonymous | [88] |
| A Nymph's Lament | Nora Hopper | [89] |
| Helen of Troy | Nora Hopper | [92] |
| An Etruscan Ring | J. W. Mackail | [93] |
| Orpheus With His Lute | William Shakespeare | [94] |
| A Hymn in Praise of Neptune | Thomas Campion | [94] |
| Horace's Philosophy of Life | Tr. Sir Theodore Martin | [95] |
| An Invitation to DineWritten by Horace to Vergil | ||
| Tr. Sir Theodore Martin | [96] | |
| The Golden Mean. Horace | Tr. Wm. Cowper | [97] |
| To the Reader. Martial | Tr. Lord Byron | [98] |
| On Portia. Martial | Tr. Lamb | [98] |
| To Potitus. Martial | Tr. John Hay | [99] |
| What Is Given To Friends IsNot Lost. Martial | [99] | |
| To Cotilus. Martial | Tr. Elton | [100] |
| The Happy Life. Martial | Tr. Sir Richard Fanshawe | [100] |
| To a Schoolmaster. Martial | Tr. John Hay | [101] |
| Epitaph on Erotion. Martial | Tr. Leigh Hunt | [102] |
| Non Amo Te | [102] | |
| Gratitude | Robert Burns | [103] |
| A Hymn to the Lares | Robert Herrick | [103] |
| Elysium. Schiller | Tr. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton | [104] |
| Orpheus | Robert Herrick | [105] |
| Cerberus | Oliver Herford | [105] |
| The Harpy | Oliver Herford | [106] |
| Cupid and the Bee | Anacreon | [106] |
| The Assembly of the Gods A. Tassoni | Tr. A. Werner | [107] |
| A Model Young Lady ofAntiquity | Pliny the Younger | [109] |
| Translation | Alfred J. Church | [110] |
| To Lesbia's Sparrow | Catullus | [111] |
| Translation | Elton | [112] |
| Cicero | Catullus | [112] |
| Translation | Charles Lamb | [113] |
| De Patientia | Thomas à Kempis | [113] |
| The Favorite Prayer of MaryQueen of Scots | [114] | |
| Ultima Thule | Seneca | [114] |
| Translation | [115] | |
| The Roman of Old | Anonymous | [115] |
| Ich bin Dein | [116] | |
| Malum Opus | James A. Morgan | [117] |
| Felis | [118] | |
| Amantis Res Adversae | [119] | |
| Puer ex Jersey | [121] | |
[Songsthat may be used for the Programs]Items in italics—except translators' names—have beenadded by the transcriber. | ||
| Flevit Lepus Parvulus | [125] | |
| Carmen Vitae. Longfellow | Tr. Benjamin L. D'Ooge | [126] |
| Text | [127] | |
| Gaudeamus Igitur | [128] | |
| Text | [129] | |
| Lauriger Horatius | [132] | |
| Text | [133] | |
| America | Tr. George D. Kellogg | [134] |
| Integer Vitae | Horace | [136] |
| Text | [137] | |
| Rock of Ages. Toplady | Tr. William Gladstone | [138] |
| Dies Irae | Thomas of Celano | [139] |
| Ad Sanctum Spiritus | Robert II, King of France | [142] |
| Adeste Fideles | [143] | |
| De Nativitate Domini | [145] | |
| Bibliography | [147] | |
| Acknowledgment | [149] | |
| Footnotes | [end of maintext] | |
| Publisher's Price List | [end ofvolume] | |
[PROGRAMS]
THE VALUE OF LATIN
"Latin is the most logically constructed of all the languages, and will help more effectually than any other study to strengthen the brain centres that must be used when any reasoning is required."
—Dr. Frank Sargent Hoffman
The Latin Language.
Mosaics in History. Arthur Gilman. Chautauqua. Vol. ii, p. 317.
Illustrated History of Ancient Literature. John D. Quackenbos. P. 305.
A Short Story of the English Language.
Jessie A. Chase. Saint Nicholas. Vol. xxvi, p. 593.
The Value of Latin.
The Advantages which accrue from a Classical Education. Caroline R. Gaston. Education. Vol. xxiii, p. 257.
The Study of Cæsar. Adeline A. Knight. Education. Vol. viii, p. 188.
A Plea for Culture. T. W. Higginson. Atlantic Monthly. Vol. xix, p. 29.
The Nature of Culture Studies. R. M. Wenley. School Review. Vol. xiii, p. 441.
The Teaching of Second Year Latin. H. W. Johnston. School Review. Vol. x, p. 72.
Essay.
What I have gained from the Study of Latin.
The Value of Latin as a Preparation for the Study of Medicine.
The Advantages that accrue from a Classical Education. Caroline R. Gaston. Education. Vol. xxiii, p. 351.
The Value of Greek and Latin to the Medical Student. Victor C. Vaughan. School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 389.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Place of the Humanities in the Training Of Engineers.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
The Value of the Humanistic Studies as a Preparation for the Study of Engineering. Herbert C. Sadler. School Review. Vol. xiv, p. 400.
The Value of Latin as a Training for Practical Life.
Latin and Greek in American Education. Francis W. Kelsey. Chap. iv.
Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School (1909). P. 19.
The Practical Value of Humanistic Studies. Wm. Gardner Hale. School Review. Vol. xix, p. 657.
The Value of Latin to the Business Girl.
Latin as a Vocational Study in the Commercial Course. Albert S. Perkins. The Classical Journal. Vol. x, p.7.
Rome's Gift to Us.
The Indebtedness of the English Language to the Latin. Federico Garlanda. Chautauqua. Vol. xi, p. 10.
A First Year Latin Book. (Introduction.) Wm. Gardner Hale.
The Value of Latin as a Training for the Lawyer.
Bulletin of the Missouri State Normal School (1909). P. 17.
Will Latin follow Greek out of the High School. Joseph P. Behm. Classical Weekly. Vol. vii, p. 25.
Poem.—A Plea for the Classics. Eugene Field.
POMPEII
"There is nothing on the earth, or under it, like Pompeii."
—W. D. Howells
Poem.—Pompeii.
Poetical Works. Mrs. Sigourney. P. 270.
The City of Pompeii before the Destruction.
The Last Days of Pompeii. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 89.
The Destruction of Pompeii.
The Last Days of Pompeii. Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P. 366.
Poem.—The Earthquake.
Whittier's Complete Poems. P. 487.
A Letter from Pliny the Younger to Tacitus.
The Eruption of Vesuvius. Pliny the Younger. Century. Vol. lxiv, p. 642.
The Eruption of Vesuvius. Translation of Pliny's letter. Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 248.
A Doomed City. Arranged from Pliny's Letters. Chautauqua. Vol. xviii, p. 506.
Vesuvius, Destroyer of Cities.
B. F. Fisher. Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxxii, p. 573.
Peeps at Many Lands. Italy. John Finnemore. Chap. xiv, p. 61.
A Day in Pompeii as Described by Shelley.
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Harry Buxton Forman. Vol. iv, p. 71.
With Shelley in Italy. Anna B. McMahan. P.187.
A Day in Pompeii as Described by Howells.
Italian Journeys. W. D. Howells. Chap. viii.
Poem.—Pompeii.
Edgar Fawcett. Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxiv, p. 182.
The Interior of a Pompeian House.
H. G. Huntington. Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxiv, p. 521.
A Municipal Election in a.d. 79.
Littell's Living Age. Vol. ccxlii, p. 188.
Recent Excavations and Discoveries in Pompeii.
John L. Stoddard's Lectures. Naples. Vol. viii.
A Day in Pompeii as Described by Dickens.
Pictures from Italy. Charles Dickens. P. 164.
Probing Pompeii.
Antonio Sogliano. Cosmopolitan. Vol. liii, p. 760.
Poem.—The Eruption of Vesuvius.
Poems. Victor Hugo. P. 112.
ANCIENT ROME
"Yet wears thy Tiber's shore
A mournful mien—
Rome, Rome! Thou art no more
As thou hast been."
—Mrs. Hemans
Roll Call.
Quotations referring to Rome from Byron's "Childe Harold" or other poems.
The Topography Of Rome.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 5.
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. i.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. Chap. iv.
Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 631.
Rome: The Eternal City.
The Eternal City. Lyman Abbott. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xliv, p. 1.
New Splendors of Old Rome. Dante Vaglieri. Cosmopolitan. Vol. lii, p. 440.
A Walk in Ancient Rome.
A Walk in Rome. Oscar Kuhns. Chautauqua. Vol. xxxiv, P. 56.
The Waterworks Of Rome.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 461.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 299.
Poem.—A Roman Aqueduct.
Poetical Works. Oliver Wendell Holmes. P. 326.
The Gardens.
The Gardens of Ancient Rome and What Grew in them. St. Clair Baddely, Littell's Living Age. Vol. ccxxxix, p. 458.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, P. 475, 533.
Poem.—A Roman Garden.
Florence Wilkinson. Current Literature. Vol. xliii, p. 570.
The Fountains.
Roman Fountains. E. McAuliffe. Catholic World. Vol. lxxvii, p. 209.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, p. 464.
Roba di Roma. William W. Story. Chapter xvii.
The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Harry Buxton Forman. Vol. iv, p. 96.
With Shelley in Italy. Anna B. McMahan. P 99.
Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 305.
Poem.—The Fountain of Trevi.
Poetical Works. Bayard Taylor. P. 91.
Hawthorne's Description of the Fountain of Trevi.
Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 65.
Poem.—The Fountain.
Poetical Works. James R. Lowell. P. 10.
A Stroll in Rome as Described by Horace.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 51.
The Burning of Rome.
Tacitus. Annales. Chap. xv.
Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 232.
Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 192.
Illustrated History of Ancient Literature. John D. Quackenbos. P. 414.
Foreign Classics in English. William Cleaver Wilkinson. Vol. iv, p. 105.
The Sky Scrapers Of Rome.
Rodolfo Lanciani. North American Review. Vol. clxii, p. 45.
Poem.—Nero's Incendiary Song.
Poems. Victor Hugo. P. 31.
Poem.—Urbs, Roma, Vale.
Littell's Living Age. J. P.M. Vol. cliv, p. 575; vol. clv, p. 447.
Blackwood's Magazine. Vol. cxxxii, pp. 176, 490, 781.
THE ROMAN FORUM
"In many a heap the ground
Heaves, as if Ruin in a frantic mood
Had done its utmost. Here and there appears,
As left to show his handiwork, not ours,
An idle column, a half-buried arch,
A wall of some great temple."
—Rogers
The Topography of the Forum.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 82.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. Pp. 21, 43.
The Remains of Ancient Rome. J. H. Middleton. Vol. i, p. 231.
Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 636.
The Roman Capitol.
Eugene Lawrence. Harper's Magazine. Vol. xliv, p. 570.
The Rostra.
Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. Pp. 65, 117.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, P. 356.
The Mamertine Prison.
Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 35.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 75.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 22.
Dickens' Description of the Mamertine Prison.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 21.
Recent Excavations in the Forum as Seen by a Traveler.
Roma Beata. Maud Howe. P. 254.
The Roman Forum as Cicero Saw it.
Walter Dennison. The Classical Journal. Vol. iii, p. 318.
Cicero's House near the Forum.
Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. P. 249.
A Roman Street Scene.
Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 43.
Poem.—The Pillar of Trajan.
Complete Poetical Works. William Wordsworth. P. 652.
Nero's Golden House.
Rome of To-day and Yesterday. John Dennie. P. 192.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, p. 342.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 369.
The Golden House of Nero. J. G. Winter. Classical Weekly. Vol. vii, p. 163.
The Lapis Niger.
Roma Beata. Maud Howe. Pp. 163, 260.
Pompey's Theater.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. i, P. 374.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 190.
The Roman Forum as it Appears To-day.
Roman Holidays and Others. W. D. Howells. P. 96.
Poem.—In the Roman Forum
Amelia Josephine Burr. Literary Digest. Vol. xlviii, p. 1130.
THE ROMAN HOUSE
"Here is my religion, here is my race, here are the traces of my forefathers. I cannot express the charm which I find here, and which penetrates my heart and my senses."
—Cicero: Pro Domo.
The Plan of the Roman House.
Callus. W. A. Becker. P. 237.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 357.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. vi.
Society in Rome under the Caesars. William R. Inge. Chap. x.
The Heating and Lighting of the House.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 457.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. vi.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. Pp. 78, 269.
The Interior of the House.
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. viii.
The Interior of a Pompeian House. H. G. Huntington. Cosmopolitan. Vol. xxiv, p. 52.
Household Furniture.
Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 295.
Society in Rome under the Caesars. W. R. Inge. Chap. x.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. vi.
A Day in Ancient Rome. Edgar S. Shumway. P. 77.
The Palatine: Home of the Aristocracy.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara E. Clement. Vol. i, p. 324.
Walks in Rome. Augustus J. C. Hare. Pp. 225, 249.
A Haunted House.
C. Pliny. Epist. 7, 27, 5-11.
ROMAN SLAVES
"Is not a slave of the same stuff as you, his lord? Does he not enjoy the same sun, breathe the same air, die, even as you do? Then let your slave worship rather than dread you. Scorn not any man. The Universe is the common parent of us all."
—Seneca
The Roman Slave.
Gallus. W. A. Becker. P. 200.
Rome: The Eternal City. Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. ii, P. 530.
Caesar. A Sketch. James Anthony Froude. Chap. ii.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. v.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 511.
Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 596.
The Roman Slave as Seen in Literature.
Vergilius. Irving Bacheller. P. 38.
A Friend of Caesar. William Stearns Davis. Chap. ii, pp. 33, 44.
Treatment of Slaves.
Cato: On Agriculture. Translation in Source Book of Roman History. Dana C. Munro. P. 184.
Letter of Pliny the Younger. Translation in Readings in Ancient History. Hutton Webster. P. 245.
The Household Slave.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 513.
Society in Rome under the Caesars. William R. Inge. P. 160.
Slaves as Physicians.
The Life of the Greeks and Romans. Guhl and Koner. P. 526.
Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries. Rodolfo Lanciani. P. 71.
Trimalchio's Cook.
Trimalchio's Dinner. Harry Thurston Peck. P. 115.
Seneca's Opinions Upon Slavery.
Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 259.
Dialogue.—A Slave Owner and His Slaves.
Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 90.
ROMAN CHILDREN
"Pueri mei sunt mea ornamenta."
—Cornelia
The Roman Child.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 67.
His Pets and Games.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 73.
His Playthings.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. P. 71.
Second Latin Book. Miller and Beeson. Introduction. P. 20.
A Roman Boy as Described by Petronius.
Trimalchio's Dinner. Harry Thurston Peck. P. 112.
Cicero's Son.
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. Chap. ii.
A Roman Boy's Birthday.
Bertha A. Bush. Saint Nicholas. Vol. xxii, p. 38.
The Story of a Roman Boy.
Second Latin Book. Miller and Beeson. Introduction.
Poem.—A Girl's Funeral in Milan.
In the Garden of Dreams. Louise Chandler Moulton. P. 39.
Roman Children on their Way to School.
Second Latin Book. Miller and Beeson. Introduction. P. 24.
Poem.—To Lesbia's Sparrow.
EDUCATION AMONG THE ROMANS
"Iam tristis nucibus puer relictis
Clamoso revocatur a magistro."
—Martial
Ode.—To a Schoolmaster.
The Epigrams of Martial. Book x: lxii.
Education Among the Romans.
A Literary History of Rome. J. Wight Duff. P. 49.
The Private Life of the Romans. H. W. Johnston. Chap. iv.
Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero. W. Warde Fowler. Chap. vi.
Wages of Schoolmasters in Ancient Rome.
R. F. Leighton. Education. Vol. iv, p. 506.
The Troubles of the Roman Schoolmaster.
Society in Rome under the Caesars. William R. Inge. Chap. vi.
The Punishment of Pupils.
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero. Alfred J. Church. P. 15.
Readings in Ancient History. Rome and the West. William Stearns Davis. P. 230.