First book to read in latin

we used do caesar's bello gallico in school. the books looked like how shakespearean english is annotated, with only the extremely rare words translated. pretty easy since he mostly talks about the same shit but good grammar practice

>>9923025
There are schoolbooks entirely in latin, specially for learning it progressively.

>>9923035
Yeah, but I am talking specifically about classical or medieval works.

I am already done a few of the cambridge latin course books and started looking through latin per se illustra exercises.

>>9923025
If you haven't already, go through Hans Orberg's two book reading course 'Lingua Lantina' the volumes you want are 'Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata' and 'Lingua Latina: Roma Aeterna'. They are readers and pedagogical texts rolled into one.

When you learn Latin, the essential thing early on is bulk of material read on a regular basis. This will give you a ready apparatus for dealing with serious texts. The second volume I named contains adaptations and then unabridged texts from a number of Latin historians.

Once you've gone through those two, and they have their own accompanying readers if you want to increase your amount of practice as you go, I recommend either Caesar's works or alternatively you could start with passages from Cornelius Nepos and late latin historians like Eutropius who have simple but decent syntax. Caesar is great because he is straightforward and concise, and yet his style is deceptively elegant- arguably the best in Latin with the exception of Cicero's, whom I am working on now.

Best of luck!

Ave et Vale!

>>9923051
Simplified extracts for the edification of the young minds, maybe ?
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/lhomond.viris.html

>>9923025

Cicero De Inventione, Pliny the Elder, Isidore, Caesar, the Vulgate, Liber Memorialis, all relatively easy, all will be fairly difficult but still.

>>9923025
I got to translate Bello Gallico in school

Seeing as it's known to be written in simple Latin so the plebs could read it that might be a good thing to check out

>>9923078
Which would be the easiest of those?

>>9923206

I suppose the vulgate would be the easiest but the Latin is not classical.