In Domini Secretum: A Latin Novella, Aquilinus is a teenager who lives in a beautiful house in Rome. He’s also a slave in that house whose life is about to be upended and his family torn apart. Aquilinus’ father Ferox, once a proud Gallic chieftain who was captured and enslaved during the Gallic War, loses his temper and berates their master Valens during Saturnalia. Worse, Ferox reveals that he knows something terrible about Valens, a secret that Valens thought he had left safely behind in war. This secret threatens to undermine Valens’ political ambitions, and his fiery, angry response has tragic repercussions for Aquilinus and his mother Euphemia. Aquilinus becomes…
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Sample for Domini Secretum
Domini Secretum is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Domini Secretum contains the complete first chapter of the story, including its artwork. The novella is about 8,000 words long and contains 222 words. Of those 222 words, some are cognates, proper nouns, or glossed words. A student needs a working vocabulary knowledge of 136 unique words to read this story in its entirety. The complete dictionary, though not the index verborum, is available here. More detailed information beyond the sample for Domini Secretum is available here.
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Dictionary for Domini Secretum
About the Dictionary for Domini Secretum The dictionary for Domini Secretum contains all the Latin words used in the novella. If you would like a preview of the novella, you can read the first chapter here. You can soon review more detailed information about the novella here. Unlike the Index Verborum, which is a list of all the word forms in the novella, the dictionary for Domini Secretum provides the full dictionary entry for the word. In addition to providing the dictionary entry and definition, the frequency in which the word generally appears in Latin literature is provided. The Dickinson Core Vocabulary and Essential Latin Vocabulary were used in creating…
