For nearly sixty years Wheelocks Latin has remained the optimus liber of beginning Latin textbooksWhen Professor Frederic M Wheelocks Latin first appeared inthe reviews extolled its thoroughness organization and conciseness one reviewer predicted that the book might well become the standard text for introducing students to elementary Latin Now nearly six decades later that prediction has certainly proved accurateThis new edition of Wheelocks Latin has all of the features many of them improved and expanded that have made it the bestselling singlevolume beginning Latin textbookchapters with grammatical explanations and readings drawn from the works of Romes major prose and verse writersSelftutorial exercises each with an answer key for independent studyAn extensive EnglishLatinLatinEnglish vocabulary sectionA rich selection of original Latin readingsunlike other Latin textbooks which contain primarily madeup textsEtymological aids maps and dozens of images illustrating aspects of the