Original Latin texts

This is a new feature of Latin without Tears . I thought it might be interesting and useful—for teachers, at least—to be able to view the original Latin source on which each Latin passage is based. When you click on Help/View original Latin source text, a window opens at the bottom of the screen as follows:

You can dismiss the window by clicking Continue. If you click the Print button, a simple print of the Latin source should appear from your printer. If you want to print the text with more sophisticated formatting for students, select the text with your mouse, copy it to the Clipboard [Shortcut: CTRL + C] and paste it [CTRL + V] into a word-processor document for formatting and printing.

For almost all of the passages in the Program, I have managed to locate the original Latin source text. In some cases, the passage presents the original much as it was written by the author but with more straightforward vocabulary and syntax so that it was easy to extract the relevant source text from the original. However, some passages represent a summary of a vastly longer and more complicated original (e.g., the excerpts from The Golden Ass by Apuleius). In these cases, I have done my best to present the story we read in the passage as best I could with text quoted from the original. However, a detailed reference appears with each passage so that, if you are unhappy with my patchwork presentation, you can easily find the full version.