Quotes from Richard A. LaFleur

Nquitia ipsa poena su est. (Publilius

Inveniet viam aut faciet.

Umbram suam metuit.

startling—the Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

Vvere est cgitre. (Cicero Tusc. 5.111.)

15. Lbers rud. (lber as adj. means free, but in the m. pl. it can also = children.—rudi, rudre, rudv, rudtum, to instruct, train, educate; a wonderful etymology, meaning lit. to get someone ex/ out of being rudis/ rough, crude, unpolished—so, gentle reader, learn Latin, cease to be "rude," become "erudite," and rejoice in your "erudition"!)

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

Su cuique mrs fingunt fortnam. (Cornelius Nepos

Avrus ipse miseriae causa est suae. (Publilius Sent.:

The Romans borrowed theirs from their Etruscan neighbors (and at the time, in the sixth century B.C., their overlords), who had in turn adapted their script from Greeks living in south Italy.

as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

this development produced what is called Middle English, known especially from Chaucer

of the true, humanistic spirit of the ancient Latin and Greek literatures and the fresh attention to literary

Psittacus vbs alirum nmina discam: Hoc didic per m dcere, "Caesar, hav!

The usual -am ending signals the dir. obj., as does the word order, which is standard for Latin: SOV, subj.-obj.-verb (vs. English, which is an SVO language); final -m was often muted in speech, and sometimes therefore dropped in writing.

CAVE CANEM Cav canem!

Two Talented Gladiators RVSTICVS MALIVS XII C XI M • TERNTIVS III C III Rsticus Malius XII, c(ornae) XI; M(rcus) Terntius III, c(ornae) III.

Betus hom qu invenit sapientiam. (Proverbs 3.13: betus hom, sc. est.)

Nec vta nec fortna hominibus perpes est. (Publilius

Cognsctis vrittem et vrits lberbit vs. (John 8.32:

Numquam snantur dfrmis vulnera fmae. (Cato Dist. Appendix 5:

Date et dabitur vbs. (Luke 6.38.)

ds mnibus: for this phrase, commonly abbreviated D. M., see "Epitaph of a Young Boy," in Capvt VII.—fcit: sc. id, i.e., the monument.

Rdx enim omnium malrum est cupidits. (I Timothy 6.10: rdx, rdcis, f., root; source, origin; "radical," "radish.")