I never let it get out of hand, I just… have a dealer and… he sells me Latin transcripts, and you know, “Okay…” (mimes effects of Latin) so that late at night you just feel like translating Latin for a bit, upstairs, smoking in the coats’ room. 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. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

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.In tudor England, Henry VIII read Cicero's On duty in latin at 11 years old, and Elizabeth I translated latin for pleasure. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

Cannily bringing in the usual jokey Latinist suspects, from Willans and Searle's Molesworth to John Cleese's irate centurion-cum-schoolmaster in The Life of Brian, Mount makes a good case for knowing a little Latin. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). 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.

Our current partner charities in the UK are READ International, the National Literacy Trust, Room to Read. This book, however, is not a grammatical Latin book, but a collection of phrases that deal more with grammatical themes- prepositional phrases, etc. Know Latin and - mirabile dictu - you will know Wilfred Owen's misery, Catullus's aching heart and the comedy of a thousand bachelor schoolmasters. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Would be of interest to those who did latin at school and for those who are interested in learning latin. Sadly my daughter couldn t take Latin (not sufficient numbers) and now many schools don t offer the subject at all. 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. 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! 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.Round Table Books specializes in Rare, Antiquarian and Collectible Books, particularly in the areas of History, Art, Arthurian History and Literature, Napoleonic Biography and History, Poetry, and illustrated editions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. I bought this thinking it would be along the same lines as the Henry Beard book X-TREME LATIN: All the Latin you need to know to survive the 21st century. Tho i didn t greatly enjoy at the time ,over the years i ve seen words which reminded me of their Latin derivation. i recommend this film to anyone interested in seeing characters of twisted morality caught in a labrynth of urban hell and unhappy relationships. As a foreigner who, fortunately or unfortunately, has had his share of Cambridge university education (and social life) and cathedral choir singing, I found this book quite hilarious is its relentless upper class self deprecatory and stupid homour, despite myself.