Latin III Course Schedule Week of March 31, 2014

Latin III:  Caesar, De Bello Gallico

Instructor:  James Ransom

March 30, 2014

Latin III Course Schedule

Week of March 31, 2014

Tuesday, April 1

Ritchie Hercules 24:    4^th Labor:  “The Erymanthian Boar.”

(Attached is the “official version” by Apollodorus.  His retelling also covers the events of Ritchie 25-27, which we’re skipping.) 

Quiz:  Third Declension Nouns

Caesar, DBG 27:          Ambiorix Advises Sabinus to Leave the Camp

Wednesday, April 2

Freeman, Julius Caesar 15:  Joe will deliver the coup de grâce.

Caesar, DBG 28:           Sabinus’ Officers Advise Against Leaving the Camp

Thursday, April 3

Caesar. DBG 29:           Sabinus Argues in Favor of Leaving the Camp

Wheelock 28:                The Subjunctive

Essay Assignment Due

Friday, April 4

Caesar DBG 29             Continued

Ritchie Hercules 28:       Fifth Labor:  The Augean Stables

Biblia Sacra Vulgata (BSV) Reading 3: Discussion.

·         It’s on the blog, and it’s only one line of text. 

Apollodorus 2.5.4:  “The Erymanthian Boar.”

[2.5.4] As a fourth labour he ordered him to bring the Erymanthian Boar alive; now that animal ravaged Psophis, sallying from a mountain which they call Erymanthus. So passing through Pholoe he was entertained by the centaur Pholus, a son of Silenus by a Meliannymph. He set roast meat before Hercules, while he himself ate his meat raw. When Hercules called for wine, he said he feared to open the jar which belonged to the centaurs in common. But Hercules, bidding him be of good courage, opened it, and not long afterwards, scenting the smell, the centaurs arrived at the cave of Pholus, armed with rocks and firs. The first who dared to enter, Anchius and Agrius, were repelled by Hercules with a shower of brands, and the rest of them he shot and pursued as far as Malea, Thence they took refuge with Chiron, who, driven by the Lapiths from MountPelion, took up his abode at Malea. As the centaurs cowered about Chiron, Hercules shot an arrow at them, which passing through the arm of Elatus, stuck in the knee of Chiron. Distressed at this, Hercules ran up to him, drew out the shaft, and applied a medicine which Chiron gave him. But the hurt proved incurable, Chiron retired to the cave and there he wished to die, but he could not, for he was immortal. However, Prometheus offered himself to Zeus to be immortal in his stead, and so Chiron died. The rest of the centaurs fled in different directions, and some came to Mount Malea, and Eurytion to Pholoe, and Nessus to the riverEvenus. The rest of them Poseidon recieved at Eleusis and hid them in a mountain. But Pholus, drawing the arrow from a corpse, wondered that so little a thing could kill such big fellows; howbeit, it slipped from his hand and ligting on his foot killed him on the spot. So when Hercules returned to Pholoe, he beheld Pholus dead; and he buried him and proceded to the boar-hunt. And when he had chased the boar with shouts from a certain thicket, he drove the exhausted animal into deep snow, trapped it, and brought it to Mycenae.

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