In Virgo Ardens: A Latin Novella, Iphis loves caring for her family farm on Crete. She loves the smell of the ocean, olives, and grain carried by the wind, and she loves watching lambs race through their fields. Yet, she also feels the burden of her secret—a secret only her mom knows. Before she was born, her father said they could only afford to raise a boy, so her mother lied to protect her. Iphis is stuck between two parents who don’t see her as she is. She isn’t the perfect son to her sick father because she’s a young woman, and she’s certainly not the perfect daughter because she’d…
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Sample for Virgo Ardens
Virgo Ardens is a Latin novella published by Bombax Press. This sample for Virgo Ardens contains the preface to the novella, which takes place before Iphis, the main character, is born. It provides important background information to characters, themes, and events in the story, but it is weighty because it discusses female infanticide through exposure.
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Dictionary for Virgo Ardens
The dictionary for Virgo Ardens contains all the Latin words used in the novella. If you would like a preview of the novella, you can read the preface of the story here. You can review more detailed information about the novella here. In addition, I also created a sortable index of words so that readers or teachers could see which new words were introduced in which chapters. You can download a copy here. Unlike the Index Verborum, which is a list of all the word forms in the novella, the dictionary for Virgo Ardens provides the full dictionary entry for the word. In addition to providing the dictionary entry and…
