AN NPR "BOOK WE LOVE" FOR SUMMER 2024 A gorgeously illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more. Latin may be a "dead" language, ...

Want to impress your friends with your erudite ways? Eager to utter completely vicious phrases that people will have to look up later? Looking for a more educated way to talk trash online? Then you, ...

Q: I was in court recently and heard the lawyers say a bunch of Latin legal terms. What to they usually mean? A: Perhaps intellectual elitism motivates lawyers to use such language in court. More ...

Latin remains the official language of the Vatican, and there are many phrases that the wider world only hears around the time that a new pope is elected. Even the word conclave, the secret assembly ...

Those of us who had the privilege of enjoying formal education in Latin have fond memories of Terentius, Cicero, Horatius, Virgilius, Ovidius, Seneca, Tacitus, Juvenalis, etc., all of them ...

Latin might be a "dead" language, but it still has a lot of living potential. There are many reasons as to why Latin should be taught at schools and universities. “It is a window into a fascinating ...

When I was in high school, the foreign language offerings were French and Spanish. That was a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. Today, the best I can do in Spanish is ask your name, what ...