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Teach Caesar and Vergil in Real Latin

Graded readers of the AP Latin authors — and Ovid, Pliny, and Frontinus beside them — with macrons throughout, margin glosses, and the author's own words at the end of every chapter. Desk copies are free for educators.

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De Bello Gallico graded Latin reader open on a classroom desk
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Why These Readers Work in a Classroom

Each volume retells a complete classical text in staged, readable Latin that grows with the student — comprehensible-input friendly, story first, long vowels marked on every word. Margin glosses keep eyes on the page instead of in the dictionary, and every chapter closes with a textus orīginālis passage taken verbatim from the source, so students meet the real author from week one.

For AP Latin programs the fit is direct: the syllabus reads Caesar's Dē Bellō Gallicō and Vergil's Aenēis, and this library carries students from first-year Latin to those unadapted passages. For programs built on Familia Rōmāna, these are the natural next readers.

Real texts only Nothing invented: Caesar's war, Vergil's epic, Ovid's myths, Pliny's letters, Frontinus' stratagems.
Reference apparatus Vocabulary indexes of 633–1,650 entries per volume; macrons throughout; glosses beside the line they serve.
Class-set friendly Paperback and hardcover on Amazon; volumes priced for students; the Complete Editions priced for readers who want one book.
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See the Books

The full catalog with sample pages lives at the Lingua Latina library. A taste:

Graded Latin Caesar reader open on a school desk
Dē Bellō Gallicō: staged narrative, margin glosses, Caesar's own words on one opening.
Strategemata Latin reader open under a study lamp
Illustrated chapters keep younger readers moving through real Latin.
Aeneis hardcover Latin reader on a marble mantel
Aenēis: the second AP author, as a hardcover students keep.
Free for educators

Request a Desk Copy

Teachers, professors, homeschool co-op leaders, and program coordinators: tell us what you teach and which volume fits it, and we'll send a desk copy — digital immediately, print where it makes sense.

Please use your school, district, or organization email address — requests from institutional addresses are approved fastest.

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