LINGUA LATINA: A Selection of Texts with Commentary

The book Lingua Latina: A Selection of Texts with Commentary is intended for students of history and for all those at a beginner and advanced level of studying the Latin language. The handbook includes texts in Latin that present important events from different periods of ancient history and culture, ranging from texts on Greco-Roman mythology and the history of Ancient Greece to texts describing significant events from the time of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

The chrestomathy contains texts from the works of prominent Roman authors such as Julius Caesar, Sallust, Cornelius Nepos, Livy, Pliny the Younger, Phaedrus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Eutropius, Velleius Paterculus, and others. Each of the 65 selected texts includes an introduction and commentary. The introductions provide basic information and the historical context of the events, mythological stories, and portraits of historical figures described in the texts themselves.

Each Latin text is followed by detailed and clearly structured commentary on morphology and syntax, enabling students to more easily understand and master translation techniques from Latin into Serbian. At the end of the handbook, there is a Latin–Serbian vocabulary containing words and expressions from all the included texts, as well as a Glossary of names featuring Greek and Roman gods, historical figures, and toponyms from various parts of the ancient world, from  Britain, Helvetia, Gallia, Hispania and through Carthage, Illyricum, and Greece, all the way to Asia Minor.