OSSIBUS = for the Bones
This book provides exercises for the Bones of the Latin language
In October 2022 I begun to edit the 1,300 unique ludi domestici sent to me for inclusion in this volume, which is projected to comprise two to three bound books. I am still receiving more ludi and welcome them until the editing process will have been completed perhaps in October 2023.
I have also begun to write the list of contributors of ludi to this project. If your name is present in the following list, please check that it is spelled correctly and as you would like it to appear in the finished publication. If you have contributed ludi, but your name is not yet listed, you may write to me at this email address with a gentle reminder, which would be welcome indeed to help me along the way to expressing my gratitude to all who have contributed in so many ways. If you prefer not to have your name listed here or in the book, please let me know and I shall do so.
Those who submitted ludi include, in alphabetical order of their surname:
Elizabeth Amato
Romana
Mark A. Avila, OMV
Lecturer
Pontifical Biblical Institute
Rome
Rev. Daniel Barnett
Rector, Bishop White Seminary
Spokane, Washington
Karen Christenfield
MIchael Dodd
Managing Editor
Liturgy Training Publications
Chicago, Illinois
William Ewald
Professor of Law and Philosophy
Penn Carey Law
Co-Director of the Institute of Law and Philosophy
University of Pennsylvania
Kenneth Gouwens
Prof. em.
Department of History
University of Connecticut
Robert Hurd, SJ
Teaches endocrinology and bioethics at Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH USA.
Laura Hudec
Department Chair
Upper School Modern and Classical Languages
Greenhill School
Addison, Texas
Rudy Miller
Dr. Rüdiger Niehl
Catherine O’Neill
Laura Pooley
supervises in Classics
University of Cambridge
Ilse Stratton
Instructor em. of German and Latin
University of Colorado
Colorado Springs
Ippolita Venturi
Italiana
OSSIBVS LVDI EXERCENDIS
Games for Exercising the Bones
Another offering that we hope to make is a collection of worksheets that guide the classroom lesson or self-teacher and the student in learning of the language. We call these worksheets ludi domestici or “home games”. Producing new Ludi yearly for several decades while teaching in Rome means that all we need to do now is collect them and arrange them according to their corresponding encounters of the Five Experiences. This volume of Ludi we call: Ossibus ludi exercendis: Games for Exercising the Bones.
Needed Ludi
Send your ludi to be included in the collection of Reggie’s ludi. We are preparing a fitting monument to this career-long work by Reggie in volume 4 of Latinitatis Corpus, “Latin’s Body”.
Scan them and send them to Daniel McCarthy at daniel@anselmianum.com.
OR send them in the post to the address given at the bottom of this page.
We shall mention the names of people who donate ludi in the acknowledgements, so send your ludi, please, and be included among those who have donated.
Below is a list of the ludi we have received to date.
If your ludi are not mentioned on this list, please send them to us so that we may include them in the volume.
If your collection of ludi is mentioned below, please check in the right-hand column below to see if we need a clean copy. If so, please scan your ludi and send them to me. Your ludi may help us present a clean copy of Reggie’s original typewritten texts.
The ludi 1996-1999 were retyped. Do you have the originals as typed by Reggie?
Some series are missing one or more ludi, as indicated to the far right.
The ludi we have are arranged by year in the left-hand column, then by experience in the second column. The number of ludi is indicated. In the right-hand column, the condition of the ludi we have is indicated followed by the numbers of the individual missing ludi.
Many of these early ludi are heavily marked up. Please send clean versions if you have them.
YEAR EXPERIENCE — LUDI CONDITION. MISSING LUDUS NUMBER
1982-1983 Experience I — 31 ludi in good shape. Missing ludus 13.
1983-1984 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1984-1985 Experience IV — 31 ludi in good shape.
1985-1986 ?? Experience IV — 12 ludi in good shape. Missing ludus 10.
1985-1986 Experience V — 7 ludi in good shape. Missing ludus 5.
1986 SUMMER INTRO — 4 ludi in good shape.
1986 SUMMER LUDI — 14 ludi in good shape.
1987-1988 Experience III — 35 ludi. Please send a clean copy.
1988? SUMMER IUNORVM — 1 ludus. Please send a clean copy of 4 and ludi 1-3, 5+?
1988? SUMMER IUN+SEN — 3 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-5.
1988? SUMMER SENIORVM — 2 ludi. Please send a clean copy of 1 and ludi 4+?
1990 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 2 ludi in good shape.
1990 SUMMER SENIORVM — 2 ludi in good shape.
1990 SUMMER IVN+SEN — 8 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-2.
1990-1991 Experience I — 2 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-21, 23-25, 27+.
1990-1991 Experience III — 2 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-3, 5-15, 17+.
1990-1991 Experience IV — 2 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-3, 5-16, 18+.
1991 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 7 ludi in good shape.
1992 SUMMER SENIORVM — 6 ludi. Please send a clean copy.
1992-1993 Experience I — 35 ludi. Please send a clean copy. Missing 2, 5, 8, 32-34.
1992-1993 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1992-1993 Experience IV — 35 ludi in good shape.
1992-1993 Experience V — 10 ludi. Please send a clean copy.
1993-1994 Experience IV — need clean nº 1; missing 2-3, 5-14, 18-24, 26+.
1994-1995 Experience I — 33 Please send a clean copy.
1995-1996 Experience III — 33 Please send a clean copy.
1996 SUMMER IVNIORVM — TEST. Please send a clean copy.
1996 SUMMER SENIORVM — TEST. Please send a clean copy.
1996 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 6 ludi. Please send a clean copy.
1996 SUMMER SENIORVM — 5 ludi. Please send a clean copy. Missing ludus 2.
1998 SUMMER LETTER SCHEDULE — 2 pages in good shape.
1998 SUMMER TESTS — 4 ludi in good shape.
1998 SUMMER LETTER 2 — 1 page in good shape.
1997-1998 CONTRACT — In good shape.
1997-1998 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
1998-1999 Experience III — 22 ludi in good shape. Missing 19-20, 23+.
The ludi 1996-1999 were retyped. Do you have the originals as typed by Reggie?
YEAR EXPERIENCE — LUDI CONDITION. MISSING LUDUS NUMBER
1996-1997 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
1996-1997 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1996-1997 Experience IV — 35 ludi in good shape.
1996-1997 Experience V — 10 ludi in good shape.
1997-1998 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
1997-1998 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1997-1998 Experience IV — 31 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 32+.
1997-1998 Experience V — 18 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 14-16.
1998-1999 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
1998-1999 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1998-1999 Experience IV — 35 ludi in good shape.
1998-1999 Experience V — 12 ludi in good shape.
YEAR EXPERIENCE — LUDI CONDITION. MISSING LUDUS NUMBER
1999 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 6 ludi. Do you have a clean copy?
1999 SUMMER SENIORVM — 6 ludi. Do you have a clean copy?
1999-2000 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
1999-2000 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
1999-2000 Experience IV — 23 ludi in good shape.
1999-2000 Experience V — 3 ludi in good shape.
2000-2001 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
2000-2001 Experience III — 35 ludi. Do you have a clean copy?
2000-2001 Experience IV — 29 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 30-35.
2000-2001 Experience V — 4 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1, 4.
2001 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 6 ludi. Do you have a clean copy? Missing ludi 1, 2.
2001 SUMMER SENIORVM — 7 ludi in good shape.
2001-2002 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
2001-2002 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape.
2001-2002 Experience IV — 29 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 30-35.
2002 SUMMER LETTER, SCHEDULE — 3 ludi in good shape.
2002 SUMMER TESTS — 8 ludi in good shape.
2002 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 7 ludi in good shape.
2002 SUMMER SENIORVM — 7 ludi in good shape.
2002-2003 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
2002-2003 Experience III — 35 ludi in good shape. Missing ludus 31.
2002-2003 Experience IV — 10 ludi in good shape.
2002-2003 Experience V — 9 ludi in good shape.
2003 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 7 ludi in good shape.
2003 SUMMER SENIORVM — 7 ludi. Do you have a clean copy of ludi 3, 4?
2003-2004 Experience I — 35 ludi in good shape.
2003-2004 Experience III — 35 ludi. Do you have a clean copy of ludi 2, 3, 4?
2003-2004 Experience IV — 10 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 7, 8, 11+.
2003-2004 Experience V — 7 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1, 7.
2004-2005 Experience V — 6 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1-2, 4-5, 6+.
2006 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 5 ludi in good shape. Missing ludus 1.
2006-2007 Experience I — 28 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 2, 29+.
2006-2007 Experience III — 25 ludi in good shape.
2006-2007 Experience IV — 10 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 8, 9-10.
2006-2007 Experience V — 2 ludi in good shape.
2007 SUMMER LETTER, CONTRACT — 4 pages in good shape.
2007-2008 Experience I — 32 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 33+.
2007-2008 Experience III — 34 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 1, 35.
2007-2008 Experience IV — 2 ludi in good shape. Missing ludi 3+.
2009 SUMMER LETTER, CONTRACT — 4 pages in good shape.
2009 SUMMER IVNIORVM — 2 ludi in good shape.
2009 SUMMER SENIORVM — 2 ludi in good shape.
2011 SUMMER SENIORVM — 5 ludi in good shape.
Send your ludi to Daniel McCarthy at daniel@anselmianum.com.
OR in the post to me at:
Daniel McCarthy
Badia primaziale Sant’Anselmo
Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5
00153, Roma
Italia
If you send the ludi to me in the post at my monastery in Kansas, please send an email to the effect so that I can ask someone to open the package, scan the ludi and sent them to me in Rome.
Daniel McCarthy
St. Benedict’s Abbey
1020 N 2nd ST
Atchison, KS 66002-1499
USA