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 favourite 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 favour 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 BA in Classics, MPhil in Classical Archaeology, and a PGCE in Classics from Newnham College, Cambridge. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her family, and teaches Latin at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, 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: 978-1-912870-17-2
Number of pages: 46