The book
The story reader after A New Latin Primer.
Mima Maxey, co-author of A New Latin Primer, wrote Cornelia to follow it, in the same method: controlled vocabulary and steady repetition. The book builds one small, familiar world of family, school, home and daily life. Each chapter adds a little to it, so by the end you are reading continuous story.
This is not the mother of the Gracchi or any other historical Cornelia. It is the 1933 school reader.
What you get
Forty chapters, about 9,000 words.
What you get is the reading: all forty chapters, with a definition, lemma and form on every word. What you don’t get is any drills or exercises, only the story itself.
Cornelia
A continuous Level 1 reader that builds a small, familiar world through controlled repetition.
A taste of the Latin
Meet Cornelia.
Tap any word for its meaning, lemma and form:
Cornelia · Capitulum Prīmum
Tap a word — or reveal the translation.
Difficulty
Beginner Latin, a whole book of it.
Cornelia scores 1.8 on Librorum Capsula’s 1–11 scale, opening at 0.3 and peaking at 3.0. The companion Carolus et Maria (1.6) is at the same level. If you are not ready for continuous story, start with A New Latin Primer (1.1 to 2.1).
Carolus et Maria
Highly repetitive Level 1 prose about two children, their family, and their world.