Where the whole series begins: Rome's greatest stories, in Latin anyone can read.
Romulus and the she-wolf. Horatius at the bridge. Cincinnatus called from his plow. Hannibal at the gates, Caesar at the Rubicon. For centuries, Virī Rōmae — the deeds of Rome's great men — was every student's first real Latin book. This edition gives that tradition what it never had: truly easy Latin, built sentence by sentence for the absolute beginner, and museum-quality paintings on nearly every spread.
The Latin is the gentlest in our entire series — short sentences, constant repetition, every new word explained in the margin in Latin you already know. A motivated reader can open this book with nothing but an alphabet and finish it reading real connected Latin prose about real Roman history.
The Twin-Book Idea
This volume shares its art, chapter for chapter, with our English Heroes of Rome. Families use them as a pair: read the story in English first — at bedtime, in the car, wherever — then meet the very same heroes, under the very same paintings, in Latin. The pictures carry the memory across; the Latin arrives with the story already half-known. It is the gentlest on-ramp to the language we know how to build.
The First Rung of the Ladder
From here the series climbs: Strategemata for the first full reader experience, Caesar and Pliny for the real authors, with Mīlle Verba beside you the whole way. Every book uses the same core vocabulary and the same explain-it-in-Latin margins, so nothing you learn here is ever wasted.
