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.
Assignments for the Thursday morning session, unless otherwise announced, will be the readings from the "Finished Latin 3" column.
| 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 |
| ---, Second Philippic | 28 | 28-29 | 28-32 | 44-50 |
| 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 |
| Tacitus, Annales book 1 | - | 1.1 | 1.1-4 | 1.72-75 |
Many of these texts can be found in Perseus (linked from the course web page) and all can be found in the University Library.