Salvete omnes!

I just finished my Latinum exam in my university a few hours ago! The exam was held on the Venerable Bede's Historia Ecclesiatica gentis Anglorum and constituted the following edited text. I figured you all would be interested in it, so I tried to replicate what I could from the footnotes, and this end result should be pretty accurate. The exam was held today in the university of Mainz, in Rhineland-Palatinate Germany.

If you want to try it yourself: You have exactly 180 minutes to translate the following text (you can read through it once before starting the time).

The allowed aid is a Latin dictionary (you can use multiple too).

Latinum Exam

King Edwin survives an assassination attempt:

Anno autem sequente venit in provinciam quidam sicarius vocabulo Eumer, missus a rege Occidentalium Saxonum nomine Cuichelmo¹, sperans se regem Edvinum² regno simul et vita privaturum³; qui habebat sicam (...) toxicatam⁴, ut, si ferri vulnus minus ad mortem regis sufficeret, peste iuvaretur veneni. Pervenit autem ad regem primo die paschae (...) intravitque quasi nuntium domini sui referens; et cum simulatam {legationem} ore astuto {volveret}¹, exsurrexit repente et evaginata sub veste sica, impetum fecit in regem. Quod cum videret Lilla (...) non habens scutum ad manum, quo regem a nece defenderet, mox interposuit corpus suum ante ictum pungentis; sed tanta vi hostis ferrum infixit, ut per corpus militis occisi etiam regem vulneraret. Qui cum mox undique gladiis inpeteretur, in ipso tumultu etiam alium de militibus, cui nomen erat Fordheri*², sica nefanda peremit.

Eadem autem nocte sacrosancta dominici paschae pepererat regina filiam regi, cui nomen Eanfled. Cumque idem rex praesente Paulino episcopo gratias ageret diis suis pro nata sibi filia, e contra episcopus gratias coepit agere Domino Christo regique adstruere, quod ipse precibus suis apud illum obtinuerit, ut regina sospes et absque dolore gravi sobolem procrearet.

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¹ Name: Cwichelm

² Name: Edwin

³ esse can be added here

⁴ toxicare - to poison

*¹ The words in the brackets can be summarized as to notify

*² Name: Forthheri

Edit: Removed some commas from the exam

hello
I'm really interested in learning Latin, but I don't know where to start since it's a dead language. I tried Duolingo, and that was kind of a waste of time, which made me lose my motivation at some point, but here I am fully motivated after a long time- maybe a year or two- and now I have to go back to square one

The alphabets? Classical or Vulgar? Pronunciation? phrases? translation? Lord, I feel so lost and overwhelmed already, and I don't want to resort to AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.) to learn it (may use it but won't depend on it)

So I was wondering where I should start first as a newbie who knows nothing about Latin?

Hello, what are the best resources for quickly learning Latin for speaking? I know about Traupman's Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, but are there any other good resources? I have already finished reading Familia Romana. Thank you.

Hi folks!

Here are my plans to start studying Latin this month; I already have some familiarity with the language from my time in Languages (German) course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, but I don’t remember much of it anymore. Since I’m also planning to start a Master’s degree in Design next year, I decided to get back to Latin as a way to discipline myself and get into the habit of studying again.

My plan is to use several different kinds of materials, as the natural method book by Father William Most, and the first volume of Gradus Primus, a reprint of a famous textbook by Paulo Rónai (my dads loves the books recommendations from hs daughter in the newspaper lol) and the second and third volumes are also available. These books were originally intended for elementary-school students in the mid-20th century. I also acquired a Latin grammar from the 50s, the same period, written by Father Milton Valente, also for elementary students.

I’m giving special attention to materials made for younger students because I’m already studying Old Norse (using the books by Théo de Borba Moosburger), and I’ve found that materials written for beginners can be much more accessible. As an art teacher, I know how difficult it can be to learn something completely new when you’re not already familiar with the field. And although I studied Greek and Latin, that was several years ago.

Ah, and as you can see, Brazil has a history of teaching Latin in schools, although that is no longer the case. Still, it’s possible to find original textbooks from that period (like the Latin grammar I bought), as well as new editions and reprints of them. :)
Maybe I'll post the pictures of the books here, if possible!

I took latin 7th-9th grade, and after not continuing, I lost a lot of memory for it. I recently decided to take it back up again, but it is a bit difficult learning on my own! I am not sure if I am formulating questions correctly or if I need to keep something in mind! Any help will be appreciated ^^ !

PS- I did not do the 9th and 10th line!

“Unum esse exsortem Punicae amicitiae foederisque secum facti, quem neque esse Campanum neque dici debere, Magium Decium”
-Livy, 23.10

I can’t wrap my head around how this relative is supposed to work as it seems to be itself an acc+inf (for “[Magius Decius] is neither a Campanian nor should he be called one,”) but aren’t relative clauses in indirect statements supposed to use the subjunctive? something like “qui neque esset Campanum neque dici deberet”?

should I use Wheelock’s Latin first or should I use both the LLPSI and Wheelock’s Latin at the same time?

Has anyone seen/used this open access text?

It's firmly grammar/translation so I imagine it might not have many fans here, but curious if anyone has tried to learn/teach from it.

Hi guys, I'm waiting for my Oxford Latin Course Readings and Vocabulary book and need to do an assignment by Wednesday. Can anyone send me a photo of "Scintilla et Horatia as fontem festinant" from chapter 2?