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Today's reading
Seneca · Epistula I
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tempustimenostrumours
The reading problem
You can study Latin for years without becoming comfortable reading it.
You learn endings, constructions, vocabulary, and how to work through difficult sentences. But reading fluently requires something else: spending time with Latin you can actually keep moving through.
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The method
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Keep moving
As Librorum Capsula learns what you know, it can lead you toward more demanding Latin.Word help, done right
Not a dictionary. A reading.
Tap a word in most Latin tools and you get the whole dictionary entry — every sense the word has ever had, with no indication which one applies here. Librorum Capsula already read the sentence, so it tells you the one that’s actually true in this line, not a menu to sort through mid-thought.
Terence, Andria · Act II, Charinus to his slave Byrrhia
“Abīn hinc in malam rem cum suspīciōne istāc, scelus?”
Abīnwill you get awayhincfrom hereintomalambadremthingcumwithsuspīciōnesuspicionistāc,thatscelus?villain
in malam rem is a stock curse — literally “into a bad thing,” idiomatically “go to hell.” The gloss stays literal; the idiom is explained, not substituted.
A typical Latin lookup
cum
- with, along with
- at — a point in time
- –fold, with a number
- when, after · because, since · although
- when, while
Librorum Capsula
cum
“with”
Governs suspīciōne right after it, so this is the preposition — not the six other things cum can be. A cum two lines later gets its own answer, on its own terms.
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