Books, Arts & Manners: Dixit! (He Said)

Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others, by Eugene Ehrlich, introduction by William F. Buckley Jr. (Harper & Row, 328 pp„ $14.95)

Inlecebra est de hoc libro iudicium Latine 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.

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Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others, by Eugene Ehrlich, introduction by William F. Buckley Jr. (Harper & Row, 328 pp„ $14.95)

Inlecebra est de hoc libro iudicium Latine 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.