A valued supplement to Hans H. Ørberg’s Lingua Latina Pars I: Familia Romana, Colloquia Personarum offers carefully graded Latin-language texts that follow the progression of Familia Romana and offer additional stories about the fictional Roman family introduced in that volume.

The Second Edition offers full-color versions of the illustrations that appeared in the First Edition. Also included is the text of Ørberg''s Colloquia Personarum: Latin–English Vocabulary.