Covers the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of some 1500 words. The 35 chapters form a sequence of events in the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D. Each chapter is divided into 3 or 4 lessons (lectiones) and consists of several text pages followed by a grammar section, GRAMMATICA LATINA, and three exercises, PENSA. At the end of the volume there is a survey of inflexions, a Roman calendar, and a word index, Index vocabulorum. Paperback, 328 pages. Part of the LINGUA LATINA Series, which provides Latin that students can read and understand immediately. Every sentence is intelligible per se because the meaning and function of all new words and forms is made clear by the context or by illustrations or marginal notes throughout this carefully graded text.