Lingua Latina per se illustrata — Pars I: Familia Romana

The beginning book in the series. Using the direct approach, this text covers the essentials of Latin grammar and a basic vocabulary of some 1500 words. The 35 chapters form a sequence of events in the life of a Roman family in the 2nd century A.D. Each chapter is divided into three or four lessons and consists of several Latin text pages followed by a grammmar section, and three exercises. At the end of the volume there is a survey of inflections, a Roman calendar, and a word index.