Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others (Hudson Group Books)

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Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. 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.A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). If you studied Latin at school this will bring back fond memories, but even newcomers will be captivated by this witty and entertaining book. 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. In his trip through the world's most influential language, Harry Mount uncorks its magic, drawing on Latin lovers from Kingsley Amis to John Cleese, from Evelyn Waugh to Donna Tart.

I think it is sad that Latin persists in being a subject which is only taught at a small number of schools, and year by year that small number gets even smaller. 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.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. In 2002, World of Books Group was founded on an ethos to do good, protect the planet and support charities by enabling more goods to be reused. Britain is such a bizarre country (and I say this with a mixture of feelings, including nostalgia) that this kind of products can coexist with, say, the films of Ken Loach.

I was looking for a translation for amo,amas,amat because its part of a verbal exchange in the film “Naked” by Mike Liegh. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. Know Latin and - mirabile dictu - you will know Wilfred Owen's misery, Catullus's aching heart and the comedy of a thousand bachelor schoolmasters. This seller has been dependable and prompt for multiple transactions now, furthering my trust in them.Please keep in mind that because we deal mostly in used books, any extra components, such as CDs or access codes, are usually not included. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. 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. 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?

A book leaves our collection of over seven million titles and begins a new chapter every two seconds, enabling more goods to be reused. There’s also the passives in all these tenses, and numerous other forms of verbs such as subjunctives, gerunds and god-knows-what. I may decide to attend evening school if I can find one that still teaches Latin as a standalone course. 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.

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. 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. 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. I think all the following is the correct information, but we’re only on our 5th week of Latin, so please forgive/correct if I’ve erred.