Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. But this time I went through it carefully, parsing every single phrase and checking words and forms in Wiktionary when the English translation alone didn't illuminate exactly what was going on in the Latin.

In fact it was more of a reference manual indicating virtually every commonly known and misused Latin phrase, abbreviation, and statement as well as their intended meaning and origins. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. Highly recommended, especially if you have or have ever had any interest at all in Latin, or in raising your learnèd English to a new level! Amo amas amat, quid pro qou, momento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on some of the grated cheese and leave under the grail until doomsday.Kathryn brileyKaren, as an aging adult, I would love to share some stories, and learn more about your son. I just used Google Translate on this, and it came up with “Excudent morleus some breathing air, I believe equident marble the living features” Obviously, it didn’t translate all of it… InterTrans came up with: “Excudent alii spirantia morleus era , to believe indeed to live ducent about like marble vulture.

Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Remember that there are also 5 latin conjugations, if you include mixed (I think), 5 or 6 declensions of nouns (I think), and 6 tenses, or at least those are the ones I know. By sharing the technology that has grown World of Books Group into the business it is today, we're helping charities increase revenue and reduce waste through re-commerce. Know Latin and - mirabile dictu - you will know Wilfred Owen's misery, Catullus's aching heart and the comedy of a thousand bachelor schoolmasters.Tho i didn t greatly enjoy at the time ,over the years i ve seen words which reminded me of their Latin derivation. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. But I do want to redo it because I realised, much later on, how useful it is for understanding so many different words, by using the Latin origins as a filter.

Or , to put it another way , latin provided cultural continuity for many generations in Western Europe. once put into context with the rest of the sentences around it, it translates a bit like this: others, i believe truly, shall with softer mould beat out the breathing bronze, coax from the marble features to the life.While Harry Mount's engaging little Latin primer isn't likely to be much help to those for whom hic, haec, hoc is the result of a night in the pub, it will succeed in reminding the 'Latin lovers' of its subtitle just how elegant and versatile the language is. If you know someone who missed out on Latin at school and wants to live a happier life, you could do no better than give them Harry Mount's entertainingly educative Latin primer. Also, in the “Pennypress Master’s Variety puzzles, Challenger series magazine Volume 78”, the clue under Christmas season is “Amo, amas, or amat, e.

A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. Every year, the A-Level and GCSE results season brings with it the usual newspaper conjectures about standards, and the decline of Latin - the decline of declensions - is usually good for a carping letter or two. Boring and utterly useless [we both probably were then] and I got a grade 9 at O-level in it in 1967.If you studied Latin at school this will bring back fond memories, but even newcomers will be captivated by this witty and entertaining book. We give people around the world the opportunity to contribute to the circular economy, earn money and protect the planet, by trading their unwanted books and media. It won't be any help at all if you don't knw any Latin - the explanations are nowehere near clear enough - but if you have done some Latin its a fun way to remind yourself of it. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. I was looking for a translation for amo,amas,amat because its part of a verbal exchange in the film “Naked” by Mike Liegh.