Author: Viviana Kleinlercher, M.A.

“Porta Latina” is making progress

The Latin text is for­mat­ted, macronized and proof­read 🎉. The audio is also almost ready. In addi­tion, I’ve seen that Moore has also writ­ten a quite detailed com­men­tary. I’ll of course add it for you. I always find such notes in the text very help­ful, as they often draw your atten­tion to aspects of the […]

“Porta Latina” (F.G. Moore) in the works

Late­ly we’ve been con­cen­trat­ing main­ly on begin­ner texts (and we’re still work­ing on them, of course), but we’d also like to pub­lish some­thing for the inter­me­di­ate lev­el again. Por­ta Lati­na is a very enter­tain­ing col­lec­tion of 50 fables (based on the ver­sions of La Fontaine) trans­lat­ed into Latin by F.G. Moore. Daniel did an excel­lent […]

Auda, chapter VII almost ready

Our work on the sev­enth chap­ter of Auda is mak­ing great progress. The first draft of the trans­la­tion and the com­men­tary are already fin­ished. Now there is still some proof­read­ing and refin­ing to do, but we will be able to pub­lish it very soon!

Book recommendation (intermediate)

Every morn­ing I take about half an hour to read some­thing on Leg­en­tibus that is not direct­ly relat­ed to my work. I’ve just fin­ished read­ing Britain and the Emper­ors again. The title of the book does­n’t sound very excit­ing, but the text pro­vides a real­ly inter­est­ing sketch of the careers of the Cae­sars who had […]

Lots of proofreading

I’ve now added the images and mar­gin­al notes to the first five chap­ters of Famil­ia Romana. We’ll pub­lish a few chap­ters at a time so that you don’t have to wait until I’ve fin­ished all 35 chap­ters. Today I’ll proof­read every­thing sev­er­al times to make sure I haven’t over­looked any notes and that the vow­el […]

Martialis now available 🎉

This selec­tion of 24 epi­grams from Martial’s Epi­gram­ma­ta offers a vivid snap­shot of Roman life through the poet’s keen obser­va­tions and sharp wit. The book comes with audio, our own verse-by-verse trans­la­tion and a com­men­tary. You can find the new book on our explore page or you can sim­ply search for it. If it’s not dis­played yet, please tap on “Reload […]

Familia Romana: images and marginal notes

Now that I’m done with Mar­tial (we can hope­ful­ly pub­lish the book tomor­row), I’m going to focus on my next big project, which is adding the images and mar­gin­al notes to our Famil­ia Romana books. Many of you have asked for this and maybe we can already update the first chap­ters this week. I’ll keep […]

Martial translation

Now that I’ve fin­ished opti­miz­ing the trans­la­tions of the begin­ner and inter­me­di­ate books, I can start with the trans­la­tion for Mar­tial’s epi­grams (we’ve select­ed 24 of our favorites for the book). I’ll do my best to do a verse-by-verse trans­la­tion so that it will be eas­i­er for you to com­pare the Latin and Eng­lish. Admit­ted­ly, […]

Preces Paschales

East­er is almost here. How time flies! Have you already had a look at Pre­ces ad tem­pus Paschale? It’s a thought­ful com­pi­la­tion of prayers, care­ful­ly cho­sen and read (eccle­si­as­ti­cal pro­nun­ci­a­tion) by Father Mateus Mar­i­ano to accom­pa­ny you dur­ing the East­er sea­son. You can use the search func­tion to look for the book.

Optimizing translations

With the new Leg­en­tibus ver­sion, we’ve added a new fea­ture for inter­lin­ear trans­la­tions (“trans­la­tion bub­bles”). Now we’re also devel­op­ing a new fea­ture for the “nor­mal” trans­la­tions to make it even eas­i­er to com­pare the Latin and Eng­lish texts. That’s why I’m cur­rent­ly revis­ing some of our old­er trans­la­tions to make them more lit­er­al and more […]