nis, Virgil's Georgics, especially books I and IV. Ovid's Metamorphoses. – Greek: Fables of Aesop; the Tablet of Cebes; select dialogues of Lucian.
Fourth Grammar Class. Latin: more important letters of Cicero; De Senectute, De Amicitia etc.; select elegies and epistles of Ovid, or selections from Tibullus, Catullus, Propertius, and Virgil's Eclogues; or the fourth book of Virgil's Georgics, the fifth and seventh book of the Aeneid etc. – Jouvancy: Caesar, Cicero's De Officiis. – Greek: St. Chrysostom (select Homilies), Xenophon. – Jouvancy: Orations of Isocrates.
Humanities (Freshman). Latin: Cicero, especially ethical writings and easier orations. Caesar, Sallust, Livy, Curtius etc.; of the poets, above all Virgil (Aeneid); Odes of Horace, etc. – Greek: Orations of Isocrates, St. Chrysostom, St. Basil, Epistles of Plato,[1] and Synesius, selections from Plutarch; of the poets: Homer, Phocylides, Theognis etc. Nadal prescribes besides: Aristophanes.
Rhetoric (Sophomore). Latin: Rhetorical works and orations of Cicero; Quintilian; historians. Jouvancy: Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius etc.; poets (not specified by the Ratio); Jouvancy: Seneca, Juvenal etc. – Greek: Demosthenes, Plato, Thucydides, Homer, Hesiod, Pindar etc.; also St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Basil, and St. Chrysostom. – Jouvancy: Sophocles or Euripides. – Nadal prescribes Demosthenes, Thucydides, the tragedians, Pindar, and "all the more important and more difficult authors."[2]
