Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: latin, illiterati, mottoes, proverbs, sayings, maxims, guide, quotations, routledge, dictionary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-11-24
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0415969093
ISBN-13: 9780415969093

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war. Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable.

Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: latin, illiterati, mottoes, proverbs, sayings, maxims, guide, quotations, routledge, dictionary
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0415969085
ISBN-13: 9780415969086

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war. Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable.

Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: latin, religious, legal, guide, illiterati, medical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-06-21
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0415922100
ISBN-13: 9780415922104

Scientia est potentia (knowledge is power)! More Latin for the Illiterati demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex and unforgiving examples of Latin abbreviation, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and the ministry. This new collection contains nearly 5000 entries devoted to law, medicine and religion, and includes phrases like:jus sibi dicere-- to take the law into one’s own handshircosus-- smelling like a goatopprobrium medicum [the reproach of physicians]--an incurable diseaseita et viri debent