The New York Classical Club invites you to send your students to this year’s Latin Sight Translation Contest for High School Students and to the second High School Latin Recitation/Reading Contest.

The translation contest will take place from 12:00-1:30, and the recitation/reading contest will follow from 2:00-4:00. There will be some light refreshments available from 1:30-2:00. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top three elocutionists in prose and poetry and to the top three translators in each of the five divisions of the competition. 

The different levels for this competition are:

Caesar – Division I                   Cicero – Division II                   Ovid – Division III

Vergil – Division IV                   Horace – Division V

Please note that all divisions will have appropriate vocabulary help, which we hope will encourage students to participate.  

For the recitation/reading contest, students may choose to compete in either prose or poetry. Students may notcompete in both categories. There will be separate prizes for prose and poetry this year.  For Latin Prose, the passage is Seneca the Elder's Controversiae, 1.1-4 and, for Latin Poetry, the passage is Virgil's Aeneid, 4.305-330. Link to passages here. Please note that students are not required to memorize the passages and are able to read from a script. If you have students participating in the recitation/reading contest, we ask that you fill out this form by Friday, April 3rd.

 If you are sending students to the translation contest, please fill out this registration form by Friday, April 3rd.  We ask that you limit your registration to three students per level (thus, a maximum of 15 students per school).

If you are bringing students, please volunteer to stay and proctor one of the contests; this year's event promises to be full of memorable moments, and we would so appreciate your presence and help.