Trivium

In this lesson you will learn where the Latin language came from, who used it, and why it is still studied today. Latin began as the speech of one small people. In the middle of Italy there is a plain called Latium, and the people who lived there were called the Latins. Their language was therefore called Latin. On that plain, beside the river Tiber, the city of Rome was built. Rome was at first only one town among the towns of Latium, and its language was the ordinary language of its neighbours. Rome grew. It mastered the rest of … Continue