Where to begin. Open Act I’s study deck — The counterpart of dialectic — and read it through. The decks are not scored. Then take The three species at difficulty I. A set is ten questions; at difficulty I each is worth ten points, and 100 completes the set.

What to do in an exercise. Read the excerpt. Answer. A right answer gains points; a wrong answer loses some. Keys 1–4 choose a multiple-choice option; Enter goes on. Where Latin or Greek is on file, an original-text button shows it. Every panel names its source.

The special rooms. Gorgias’s Helen is a study card and a figures set of its own (persuasion as a drug; the four aitiai). Antiphon’s Second Tetralogy is kept as forensic, not dumped into Cicero. The Blaisdell debates — Archidamus and Sthenelaidas, Cleon and Diodotus, Pericles, Catiline and Caesar — are paired in Act VII. Augustine’s Christian orator sits beside the Confessions, not instead of them.