About the story
Celer is a friendly dog. He's so friendly that he has a friend on each one of the seven hills of Rome! Not only does Celer enjoy visiting his friends on the seven hills, but he also enjoys the opportunity to cut loose and just be a dog without anyone telling him "DON'T!"
This novella is geared towards Novice level students in the first few months of a Latin I class.
About the author
Hillary 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 1,111 words long, and uses 124 different headwords. Of these:
- 48 words are high frequency words from Chapters 1-3 of the course textbook Suburani or introductory chapters of a comparable Latin course.
- 12 words are easily recognizable cognates.
- 13 words are proper nouns.
- 51 words or phrases are glossed on the pages where they appear.
About the book
ISBN: 978-1-9128701-0-3
Number of pages: 32