Students who know some Latin are strongly encouraged to read as much as possible of the semester's readings in the original language. For each assignment, if you can read the entire thing in Latin, do so.

If you are not reading the entire assignment in Latin, however, you may want some guidance about which are the most characteristic, most important, or least difficult passages to read.

The following chart shows suggested (minimum) Latin readings for students with various levels of experience in the language. The suggestions are cumulative; that is, readers at one level are invited to read everything proposed for lower levels as well as what is suggested at their own level.

Author and work	In Latin 2 now	Finished Latin 3	Taking Latin 22 or 91	Taking an upper-level course, or have had one before
Plautus, Menaechmi	17-48	1-76	226-272	571-601
Cornelia letter	-	-	all	-
Sallust, Catiline	-	5	25	51
Cicero, Against Catiline	1.1 (1st speech, section 1)	1.1-6	1st speech	-
---, Letters	To Atticus 1.2	To friends 5.12 (Fam. 5.12: ad familiares)	-	-
---, For M. Caelius Rufus	80	30-32	33-34	all
---, First Philippic	11	11-13	1-10	all
Caesar, Civil War	3.91	3.102-104	1.74-76	1.59-87
Catullus	1, 5, 101	2, 3, 7, 51, 85	8, 16, 31, 42, 50, 70, 76	63 (and 64 and 62 if possible)
Horace, Odes	3.30	1.5	1.37	3.1-6, 4.2
---, Satires	-	-	1.9	1.5, 2.6
Virgil, Aeneid	1.1-7	4.160-172	6.450-476	book 4
Livy, book 1	-	1.4	1.57-60	all
Tibullus	-	-	1.1	1.2
Propertius	-	-	1.1	4.7, 4.11
Sulpicia	-	all	-	-
Ovid, Amores	proem	1.5	1.1	3.2
---, Ars Amatoria	-	-	1.101-134	1.135-176
---, Metamorphoses	1.1-4	15.871-879	6.1-145	5.250-678
Augustus, Res Gestae	19-20	all	-	-
Suetonius, Julius Caesar	82	32	81-83	-
---, Augustus	5	43	75-78, 87-88	all
---, Caligula	9	20	19	-
Lucan, Civil War	-	1.1-7	1.1-66	book 1
Juvenal	-	1.79-80	1.22-30	1
Tacitus, Annales book 1	-	1.1	1.1-4	1.72-75

Many of these texts can be found in Perseus and all can be found in the University Library.