About the story
A festival at the Circus Maximus means a rare day of leisure and fun for Sabina and her friends. When Sabina loses at her favorite game, Trigon, it sets off a chain of events that takes the friends through the streets of the Subura finding games to play along the way. Will Fortune finally favor Sabina today or will her friends get all the luck?
This novella is suitable for an Advanced Beginner.
About the author
Hilary Long graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics, Masters of Philosophy in Classical Archaeology, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Classics from Newnham College, Cambridge University. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her family and teaches Latin to fabulous students at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin.
About the word count
This novella is 1,373 words long, and uses 298 different headwords. Of these:
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88 words are high frequency words from Chapters 1–9 of the course textbook Suburani or introductory chapters of a comparable Latin course.
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27 words are easily recognizable cognates.
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15 words are proper nouns.
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102 words or phrases are glossed on the pages where they appear.
About the book
ISBN: 978-1-9128701-1-0
Number of pages: 46