Latin for All Occasions

Who says Latin is a dead language? Certainly not any former altar boys, private-school alumni, or any girl who ever dreamed of being Audrey Hepburn in ‘A Nun’s Story’. The Roman mass may be a thing of the past, but Latin’s never been livelier. Her, in one handy, easy-to-use volume are hundreds of everyday English expressions rendered into grammatically accurate, idiomatically correct classical Latin – with a complete, easy-to-use pronunciation guide. And all of these practical phrases are conveniently organised into familiar conversational categories, so that you can be confident that in any social situation some suitable Latin bona dicta (bon mots) will be right at your fingertips. Latin for All Occasions gives you the perfect phrase for every contemporary situation, from starting a relationship (“Frequentasne hunc locum?” “Do you come here often?”) to classic movie quotes (“Fac ut gaudeam.” “Make my day!”) through bumper stickers, personal ads, sports terms, answering machine messages, vanity license plates, cocktail party chitchat and much, much more. The next time you feel like using the immortal language of Caesar, Cicero, Virgil, and Horace to turn an ordinary remark into a timeless utterance, don’t let feles, felis, feli, felem, fele (the cat) get your tongue. Just pull out a copy of Latin for All Occasions. Bona fortuna! (Good luck!)