Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others

Eugene Ehrlich

ISBN 10: 0061812498 / ISBN 13: 9780061812491

Published by Harper & Row, New York, NY, 1985

About this Item

Harper & Row, New York. 1985. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; small splash stains on textblock top. No DJ. Printed card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 328 pp 8vo. The author provides pronunciation guides and entertaining expositions of ab absurdo to vultus est index animi. A handy compilation of idioms from legal and ecclesiastical terminology that are in use in common English language specially in Medical and Legal terminology- and of course once again in the Roman Catholic Mass. A clean very presentable copy.

Seller Inventory # 013143

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061812498
• ISBN 13: 9780061812491
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Language
  • Education

About this title

Synopsis

A witty and entertaining guide to the use of Latin expressions for one's own advantage in the modern world.

Review

"I know of no book to contend in usefulness with this resourceful, voluminous, and appetizing smorgasbord."--William F. Buckley, Jr., "From the Introduction"