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I read reviews of the book, and although I didn't do Latin at school, I knew it would be fun to develop the scant Latin I knew and would no doubt increase my vocabulary in English and other European languages. 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. But, if you have the vaguest memory of the ablative absolute, the locative and the gerund, you mastery of Latin will spring back to life with Amo, amas, amat.We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. In the last chapter, the author discusses the lack of interest in latin and the classics in contemporary culture. 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!

Have you ever found yourself irritated when a sine qua non or a mea culpa is thrown into the conversation by a particularly annoying person? In the religious case, it should be noticed that Cicero's On Duty is a fundamental work in moral philosophy and was used extensively by the early Church Fathers. I like birding, reading, writing, organic gardening, singing, playing guitar, hiking, the outdoors, and books.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. In tudor England, Henry VIII read Cicero's On duty in latin at 11 years old, and Elizabeth I translated latin for pleasure.

The language was fascinating, but sadly the Master who taught it was the meanest teacher in the whole school.My Latin basics really were basic and not long lasting, as well as having been a very long time ago, so, I really need to start the basics all over again. 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.

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