ThisauthoritativeandhighlybrowsableguideprovidesanenlighteningaccountofthemeaningandhistoryofLatinwordsandphrasesthathaveenteredtheEnglishlanguage.Readerswillfindover1000phrases,sayings,mottoes,andproverbs,translatedwithexamplesofusageandfascinatingcitationsandexplanationsoftheirfirstoccurrence.AdetailedA-ZappendixlistsallLatinauthorsfromAugustinetoVirgil,togetherwithdetailsoftheirlifeandwork.Athematicindexoffersimmediateaccesstothemaximsandphrasesrelatingtosuchtopicsasdeath,betrayal,gossip,love,andmoney.ADictionaryofLatinWordsandPhraseswillbeanentertainingandinstructivesourceofinformationforwordloversofallvarieties,fromthecrosswordaficionadotospeech-writers,historians,literaturebuffs,thesavvygeneralreader,andanyoneproperlycuriousaboutLatin’sinfluenceonEnglish.
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