What is it?
The Reading section is the step from practice to real text. Here you’ll find the original texts — not constructed schoolbook sentences, but Cicero, Caesar, Sallust and many more. You read them sentence by sentence and identify word forms and sentence elements directly in the text.
What do you practise here?
Real reading and analysis: recognising sentence elements, identifying forms, unpacking constructions — in the original. Alongside, Lapicida shows the matching vocabulary and matching grammar for each text, so you don’t have to keep looking things up but stay in the flow of reading.
Authors and texts
Classical authors
- Cicero — speeches and letters, plus the philosophical works: De Amicitia, De Re Publica (with the Somnium Scipionis), De Officiis.
- Caesar — De Bello Gallico, from the first steps to the masterclass.
- Sallust — Bellum Catilinae, across all levels.
- Livy — Ab Urbe Condita (Romulus, Numa, Horatius Cocles).
- Seneca — Epistulae Morales.
- Phaedrus — Fabulae · Eutropius — Breviarium · Virgil — Aeneis.
Theological and later authors
- Vulgate — biblical texts: the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, Gospels (John, Luke), Acts of the Apostles, Jeremiah.
- Tertullian — Apologeticum.
- Augustine — Confessiones.
- Anselm of Canterbury — Proslogion.
The texts are graded by level L3–L27 — from an easy start to demanding upper-school and Latinum reading.
How do you practise here?
A text is split into sentences that you work through one by one — with a progress bar. Teachers can assign collections as homework with a due date. Everything works offline; your results are sent on afterwards.
Features
- 19 collections, 322 hand-curated original sentences — classical and theological.
- Sentence-by-sentence analysis with colour-coded sentence-element marking, matching vocabulary and grammar.
- Homework with a due date, offline-capable.
What does the support look like?
You correct your own mistakes — you only move on with the right analysis. Vocabulary and grammar help for the sentence are always at hand, so you don’t get stuck even on a difficult text.
How does the dyslexia support work here?
Fixed colours per sentence element, the OpenDyslexic font, wider letter spacing, dark mode and audio — the same anchors as in the trainers, so that an original text stays readable too.
How do you learn here? And how does it all connect?
Many reading sentences are already familiar: they return from the Forms Trainer, the Sentence Quiz or Sensus (🧠) — and some belong to the continuous story Lapicida Memoria. What you parsed in parts, you read here as a whole. The Reading section is thus the final step: understanding instead of practising. More in the learning method.
Try it now
The introductory collections are included in the free area — no account, no credit card. Start for free →
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