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Ancient Language Stories

Graded readers and narrative tales: Latin series and short stories, novels and novellas, construed stories in other languages, and the Church Fathers. Each tale is a standalone reading with an interlinear gloss. Every title is readable here in full. Patrons may download a typeset PDF.

8 volumes · 162 stories

Series

5 volumes · 106 stories

Latin Stories: The Claudius Tales

9 stories following Claudius through adventures across the Roman world.
9 stories
  1. Claudius and the Cyclops
  2. Claudius and the Golden Ring
  3. Claudius visits Londinium
  4. Claudius in Sicily
  5. Claudius and the Sacred Grove
  6. Claudius and the Mysterious Forest
  7. Claudius and the Sacred Grove
  8. Claudius et Leo Eboraci - Claudius and the Lion of York
  9. Equus et Eques: The Story of Fulmen and Claudius

Latin Stories: Mārcus et Iūlia

A graded reader in 4 books for young Roman readers.
4 stories
  1. MĀRCUS ET IŪLIA Libellus Prīmus Puerīs Puerīsque Rōmānīs A First Reader for Roman Children
  2. MĀRCUS ET IŪLIA Libellus Secundus: Ad Vīllam Book Two: To the Country Villa
  3. MĀRCUS ET IŪLIA Libellus Tertius: Hiems Rōmae Book Three: Winter in Rome
  4. MĀRCUS ET IŪLIA Libellus Quārtus: Ad Ostiam Book Four: To Ostia

Latin Stories: Fabulae Romanae

13 parts of Roman tales for young readers.
15 stories
  1. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Tertia: Iuventuti Traditae De amicitia inter homines et animalia
  2. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Quarta: Iuventuti Traditae
  3. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Quinta: Iuventuti Traditae
  4. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Sexta: Iuventuti Traditae
  5. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Sexta: Iuventuti Traditae
  6. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Septima: Iuventuti Traditae
  7. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Octava: Iuventuti Traditae
  8. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Sexta: Dē Fidē et Grātiā
  9. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Septima: Dē Humilitāte et Cōnstantiā
  10. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Octāva: Dē Fortitūdine et Clēmentiā
  11. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Nōna: Dē Memoriā et Dēvōtiōne
  12. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Decima: Dē Lūdō et Dignitāte
  13. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Undecima: Dē Sōlāciō et Celeritāte
  14. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Duodecima: Dē Grātiā et Industriā
  15. FABULAE ROMANAE Pars Tertia Decima: Dē Arte et Sacrificiō

Latin Stories: Cicero Fabulae

3 tales in the voice of Cicero.
4 stories
  1. M. TVLLI CICERONIS FABVLAE VALERII SECVNDI PAPYRVS AVREVS
  2. M. TVLLI CICERONIS FABVLAE VALERII PRISCI EXPOSITVS
  3. M. TVLLI CICERONIS FABVLAE PHILOCRATIS:NVLLVS VIDIT
  4. M. TVLLI CICERONIS FABVLAE PHILOCRATIS: TITVLVS

Latin Stories: An Anthology

74 standalone Latin tales — fairy tales, naval adventures, mysteries, love stories, and more.
74 stories
  1. Mūsicī Itinerāntēs Lutetiae Parīsiōrum
  2. The Sultan of Edirne
  3. The dog, the sparrow and Catullus.
  4. The Dancing Princesses
  5. The Fisherman and His Wife
  6. Julius Caesar and Cleopatra in Love
  7. A Day in the Life of Erasmus
  8. The Rabbi Creates a Golem
  9. A Visit to Capua
  10. Octavia and the Vestal Virgin
  11. Šamaš-šum-ukin et Frater: A Tale of Two Kings
  12. Alulim: Primus Rex Sumeriae
  13. Adad-bani: Servus Mercatoris
  14. Amor Primus: First Love
  15. Pompeius et Templum Iudaeōrum
  16. Zamolxis et Mysteria Immortalitatis
  17. Marduk, Deus Babyloniae
  18. Capella Nigra (The Black Goat)
  19. Miles Deceptus: The Betrayed Soldier
  20. Frater Benedictus et Clavis Secreta
  21. Servī Aeneī: The Bronze Servants of Rome
  22. Mutator Geneticus: The Genetic Manipulator
  23. Secundus et Thesaurus Daciae
  24. Amor in Domo Gracchi
  25. Insurrēctiō Cypriī: The Cyprus Uprising
  26. Buddha et Illuminatio
  27. Siddhartha Sub Arbore Bodhi
  28. The Mystery of the Stolen Lares
  29. Pastor et Satyrus - The Shepherd and the Satyr
  30. Livia and the Sacred Flame
  31. Marcus's Letter from Hadrian's Wall
  32. Marcus et Puer Frūmentārius
  33. Regina Persica et Libri Amoris
  34. Ultima Avis Dodo
  35. The Golden Ball (Pila Aurea)
  36. The Four Noble Children
  37. Fairy Ointment
  38. The Fish and the Ring
  39. DE BELLO GALLICO - LINGUA NATURALIS Bella Caesaris in Gallia - Simpliciter Narrata
  40. NARRATIONES LATINAE PRO TIRONIBVS Fabulae Simplices cum Latinitate Vera M. Tullius Cicero et M. Terentius Varro Simulacra Auctores
  41. UMBRAE URBIS - Fabula Detectiva
  42. DE NOCTIBVS ATHENIENSIBVS Narratio Dramatica de Amore, Morte, et Veritate Auctore M. Tullio Cicerone (Simulacrum)
  43. FRATRES INVESTIGATORES Fabulae de Marco et Lucio, qui mysteria urbis Romae solvunt
  44. QVINTVS SERVVS Narratio de Instrumento Vocali Pro adulescentibus scripta, ut intellegant quid sit servitus
  45. AMOR INTER AGROS
  46. DE PAPILIONIBUS PERDITIS A Tale of Lost Butterflies Narratio Nabokoviana Latine Scripta Anno MDCCCLXXXV
  47. DE VERITATE PERDITA On Lost Truth Narratio Nabokoviana Latine Scripta De Tyrannide et Veritate Anno Domini CCCLXXXIV
  48. DE PUERO NAUTA AD ACTIUM Narratio Marryatiana Latine Scripta Marryat Applicati ad Bellum Actiacum
  49. DE PHASELO PARVO Narratio Marryatiana ex Catulli Carmine Phaselus Ille - Historia Vera Navis Parvae Gloriosae
  50. LIBELLI ROMANORUM PUERORUM Decem Fabulae
  51. DE THOMAS HARTWELL ET PIRATAE Fabula Navalis Adulescentibus Scripta More Marryat In Qua Iuvenis Naivus Discit Mundum Non Esse Qualem Pater Docuerat
  52. INTER DUAS AETATES Fabula de Amore Tempore Augusti Imperatoris
  53. DE THESAURO DRUIDARUM Fabula Aventurae in Gallia Comata Narratio apta adulescentibus Romanis de periculis atque inventis mirabilibus
  54. DE INVENTIONE LOCI SACRI Fabula Praevia: Quomodo Divitiacus Primus Nemeton Invenit Narratio ducentis annis ante Marcum Valerium Lupum
  55. DE GEMINIS QUI ROMAM CONDIDERUNT Fabula Rhythmica
  56. DE HORATIO AD PONTEM
  57. DE COLORE GRAECITATIS Narratio Temporibus Multiplicibus
  58. DE GAVIO HOSTILIO ET PIRATIS Fabula Maritima Romana In qua iuvenis Stoicus mare ascendit et discit virtutem non in libris sed in fluctibus inveniri
  59. FABVLAE IVVENVM LATINAE
  60. FABVLAE IVVENVM LATINAE Narrationes Variorum Generum
  61. DRACO BRITANNICUS Fabula de Puero et Dracone Ex fabulis antiquis Britanniae
  62. FABULAE NOVAE Tres Fabulae ex Diversis Terris Imperii
  63. FABULAE NOVAE Tres Fabulae ex Diversis Terris Imperii
  64. Marcus et Templum Vacuum Marcus and the Empty Temple Auctor: Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
  65. Lūcia et Bibliothēca Alexandrīna The Scribe and the Dying Library
  66. Lactantius: De Tyranno et Luce Divina (The Tyrant and the Divine Light) A tale of persecution, providence, and the fall of the proud— in the manner of De Mortibus Persecutorum
  67. Thomas et Eremīta Thomas and the Hermit
  68. DĒ FĪLIŌ PISCĀTŌRIS
  69. DĒ SOMNŌ PŪBLIĪ VALĒRIĪ FĀBULA LATĪNA
  70. DĒ GRAMMATICŌ CAECŌ FĀBULA LATĪNA
  71. DĒ PUERO QUĪ SILVAM AUDĪVIT FĀBULA GALLICA LATĪNĒ SCRĪPTA
  72. QUĪNQUE RŌMĀNĪ ET ARCĀNUM COLLĪS PALĀTĪNĪ FĀBULA LATĪNĒ COMPOSITA In stylō Blytōniānō
  73. A Latin Short Story written by Livius Andronicus Simulacrum
  74. CURSUS GLORIAE Fabula de Marco Valerio Iuvene Romano Ludi Circenses · Roma · Aetas Augusta

Short Stories

8 stories

Lachesis Palmās Numerat

Flavius Scorpus Simulacrum
A construed Latin story told by the charioteer Scorpus: how Lachesis, counting the knots of his two thousand and forty-eight victories in…
2 parts
  1. Pars A: Verbum post verbum
  2. Pars B: Textus Latīnus sōlus

Fūnis in Tenebrīs

Carneades of Cyrene Simulacrum
Sustained Latin prose by Carneades of Cyrene: in the year Carthage fell, his Carthaginian pupil Clitomachus hears a rumour of his city's…

Ōs Columnātum

Gnaeus Naevius Simulacrum
Gnaeus Naevius, in sustained Latin prose, tells of the one line that put him in prison, the two guards who ate his dinner, Plautus's joke…

Hiems Neāpolitāna

Lorenzo de' Medici Simulacrum
Lorenzo de' Medici, in sustained Latin prose, tells of his brother's murder in the Cathedral, the hangings he did not stop, and the winter…

Umbra Baculī

Claudius Ptolemy Simulacrum
A construed Latin story told by Claudius Ptolemy in Alexandria: an old Thracian muleteer who once walked the seven months from the Stone…
2 parts
  1. Pars A: Verbum post verbum
  2. Pars B: Textus Latīnus sōlus

Cōdicillī ad Patrem

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Simulacrum
Lucan, in sustained Latin prose, tells his last afternoon: the mother he named to Nero, the note to his father correcting his verses, the…

Gallus Negantēs Arguit

Ambrose of Milan Simulacrum
A construed Latin story told by Ambrose of Milan. In Holy Week the imperial soldiers besiege the Portian basilica. To keep his tired…
2 parts
  1. Pars A: Verbum post verbum
  2. Pars B: Textus Latīnus sōlus

Fāgus quae Rōmam Vīdit

Titus Calpurnius Siculus Simulacrum
A construed Latin story told by the pastoral poet of Nero's reign. Faunus's beech, which carries a carved oracle of the golden age, is…
2 parts
  1. Pars A: Verbum post verbum
  2. Pars B: Textus Latīnus sōlus

The Church Fathers

3 volumes · 48 stories

Lactantius Narrat

22 tales narrated by Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius.
22 stories
  1. Marcus et Templum Vacuum Marcus and the Empty Temple Auctor: Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
  2. Lactantius: De Tyranno et Luce Divina (The Tyrant and the Divine Light) A tale of persecution, providence, and the fall of the proud— in the manner of De Mortibus Persecutorum
  3. Dē Medicō Quī Deum Invēnit (Of the Physician Who Found God) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  4. Dē Sculptōre Deōrum (Of the Sculptor of Gods) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  5. Dē Philosophō et Sacerdōtissā (Of the Philosopher and the Priestess) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  6. Dē Rhētore et Lībertāte (Of the Rhetorician and Freedom) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  7. Dē Iūdice et Duōbus Mortuīs (Of the Judge and the Two Dead Men) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  8. Dē Caecō Quī Sōlem Dēscrīpsit (Of the Blind Man Who Described the Sun) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  9. Dē Sibyllā et Custōde Librōrum (Of the Sibyl and the Guardian of the Books) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  10. Dē Poētā et Ātomīs (Of the Poet and the Atoms) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  11. Dē Philosophīs Quī Inter Sē Dīssidēbant (Of the Philosophers Who Disagreed with One Another) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  12. Dē Iūdice et Iūstitiā Vērā (Of the Judge and True Justice) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  13. Dē Morte Persecūtōris (Of the Death of the Persecutor) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  14. Dē Captīvō Vēritātis (Of the Prisoner of Truth) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  15. Dē Famē et Īrā Deī (Of the Famine and the Anger of God) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  16. Dē Sacerdōte Raptō (Of the Priest Who Was Seized) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  17. Dē Sophistīs Nostrī Temporis (Des sophistes de notre temps) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  18. Dē Duābus Faciēbus Ēiusdem Errōris (Des deux faces de la même erreur) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  19. Dē Celeritāte sine Cōnsiliō (On Speed Without Counsel) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  20. Dē Sacrilēgiō Summō (Of the Greatest Sacrilege) Lūcius Caecilius Firmīānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  21. Dē Mundō Cadente (On the Falling World) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.
  22. Dē Pāginā Repertā (De la page qui fut trouvée) Lūcius Caecilius Firmiānus Lactantius nārrāvit.

Augustinus Narrat

15 tales narrated by Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis.
15 stories
  1. Dē Sene Quī Hortum Invēnit (Of the Old Man Who Found the Garden) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  2. Dē Duābus Cīvitātibus (Of the Two Cities) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  3. Dē Magistrō et Fīliō (Of the Teacher and the Son) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  4. Dē Pīrīs
  5. Dē Fenestrā Ostiēnsī (Of the Window at Ostia) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  6. Dē Amīcō Quī Mortuus Est
  7. Dē Cantōre et Tempore (Of the Singer and Time) Aurēlius Augustīnus nārrāvit.
  8. Dē Lūmine et Caecitāte (Of Light and Blindness) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  9. Dē Candēlā in Tenebrīs (Of the Candle in the Darkness) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  10. Dē Tribus Quae Ūnum Sunt (Of the Three Things Which Are One) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  11. Dē Duābus Cīvitātibus in Ūnā Terrā (Of Two Cities in One Land) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  12. Dē Fīliā Prīmogenitā (De la Fille Aînée) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  13. Dē Hērēditāte (De l’héritage) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  14. Dē Spīritibus Impūrīs (On Impure Spirits — that is, on those who think themselves pure spirits) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.
  15. Dē Quadrāgēsimā Vīvā (On the Living Lent) Aurēlius Augustīnus Hipponēnsis nārrāvit.

Thomas dē Aquīnō Narrat

11 tales narrated by Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō.
11 stories
  1. Dē Medicō et Mediō Virtūtis (Of the Physician and the Mean of Virtue) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  2. Dē Carpentāriō et Quattuor Causīs (Of the Carpenter and the Four Causes) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  3. Dē Sculptōre et Duābus Quaestiōnibus (Of the Sculptor and the Two Questions) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  4. Dē Agricolā et Lēge Nātūrālī (Of the Farmer and the Natural Law) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  5. Dē Obligātiōne Subveniendī (On the Obligation to Help) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  6. Dē Beātitūdine et Bellō (Of Happiness and War) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  7. Dē Animā et Corpore (Of the Soul and the Body) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  8. Dē Exitū et Reditū (Of Going Forth and Returning) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  9. Dē Sacrā Doctrīnā (De la doctrine sacrée) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  10. Dē Participātiōne (On Participation) Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.
  11. Dē Mūrō Aedificandō On Building a Wall Frāter Thomas dē Aquīnō nārrāvit.