Amo, amas, amat and more: how to use Latin to your own advantage and to the astonishment of others.

National Review | October 18, 1985| | Copyright

INLECEBRA EST de hoc libro iudicium Lating exprimere. No! Get thee behind me, Satan!--the Latin for which Mr. Ehrlich does not give in this delightful book. He does give the Latin for at least 1,200 other phrases, though: some familiar, most unfamiliar, all thoroughly indexed in English. Moving from the index to a Latin word or phrase, pertinent, provocative, or practical, one is treated not merely to the Latin, but to some astute animadversions, often quite amusing.

Let us start with "upper garment." We find in the body of the work only the word toga, and for ...

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