Latin for All Occasions

Latin for All Occasions

"Latin for All Occasions" ("Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus") is a 1990 book by Henry Beard, and "Latin for Even More Occasions" ("Lingua Latina Multo Pluribus Occasionibus") is a 1991 sequel. Both contain translations of modern English phrases into mostly literal Latin equivalents.

Beard is known as a humorist but studied Latin for eight years at Harvard. He wrote the Latin himself, but had it checked and polished by scholars Mark Sugars and Winifred Lewellen. The idea for the books was from John Boswell . The illustrations are by Mikhail Ivenitsky and both books were published by Villard Books, a division of Random House.

The translations are mostly direct, so an English expression like "Get your ducks in a row" is translated as "Anates tuas in acie instrue". The significance of having ducks lined up would presumably be a mystery to an ancient Roman, but a translation like this is great for putting a classical twist on modern jargon – which is the whole point of the book.

Sample Phrases

"Latin for All Occasions"

*You're fired. "Ego te demitto."
*Look out, I'm going to barf! "Cave, vomiturus sum!"
*Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? "Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar?"
*Your fly is open. "Braccae tuae hiant"
*You're beautiful! "Pulcher es!" (masculine), "Pulchra es!" (feminine)
*Honey, I'm home! "Melita, domi adsum"

References

* Henry Beard, "Latin for All Occasions; Villard Books", 1990, ISBN 0-394-58660-3. (Reprinted 2004, Gotham books, ISBN 1-59240-080-9.)

* Henry Beard, "Latin for Even More Occasions", 1991, ISBN 0-679-40674-3.

External links

* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spoken_Latin Latin phrases for conversation in wikibooks]


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