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PREFACE

PREFATIO

You know the feeling all too well. There you are, chatting with business associates at an upscale watering hole, or participating in a little good-natured give-and-take during a golf or tennis match, or relaxing with friends on the beach, or maybe just reviewing the day with your family at the supper table. You spot an opportunity to liven up the discussion with a particularly pithy observation in Latin, and then, all of a sudden, youre assailed by paralyzing doubts.

Does the verb you were planning to use belong in the second or third conjugation? Is it irregular? Deponent? Reflexive? Defective? Does it take ut and a subjunctive or an infinitive with the accusative? Or, worse still, does it take the dative, or the genitive? Would a gerundive construction be more appropriate, or laughably awkward? How about a passive periphrastic orbut no, its too late. The moment has passed; the conversation has moved on.

Now, be honesthow many times has that happened to you? If your answer is saepius (all too often)and we bet it is!then Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus (Latin for All Occasions) is the book for you.

Here, in one handy, easy-to-use, toga-totable papyrus-back book, are hundreds of everyday English expressions rendered into grammatically accurate, idiomatically correct classical Latin, just as you would have translated them yourself if you had the time. And all of these practical phrases are conveniently organized into familiar conversational categories so you can be confident that in any social situation some suitable Latin bona dicta (bon mots) will be right at your fingertips, just as they would be if only you could get in a little more practice.

The next time you feel like using the immortal language of Caesar and Cicero to turn an ordinary remark into a timeless utterance, dont let feles (the cat) get your tongue. With a copy of this handy little volume tucked in your sleeve (or in the bag carried by the faithful retainer walking a respectful two paces behind you), youll never again be intimidated by those seven hundred verb endings, ninety noun cases, and twenty kinds of ablative. And youll quickly discover that whether you want to impress the boss, entertain your friends, keep the kids in line, or charm that special someone, speaking Latin is as easy as taking Gaul from the Gauls.

Vince! (Knock em dead!)

I.

CONVERSATIONAL LATIN

Lingua Latina Conlocutioni

COCKTAIL PARTY CHITCHAT

Hot enough for you?
Satine caloris tibi dies est?

Run into much traffic on the way over?
Eratne turba magna vehiculorum obviam tibi venienti huc?

What do you think I paid for this watch?
Quanto putas mihi stetisse hoc horologium carpale?

You know what I think? I think...
Visne scire quid credem? Credo...

that all wrestling is fixed.
luctationes omnes praestitutas esse.

that flying saucers are real.
astronaves orbiculares exsistere.

that Elvis is still alive.
Elvem ipsum etiam vivere.

that the weather has been altered by rocket launches.
missiones pyraulorum statum caeli mutavisse.

that no ones barbecue sauce is better than mine.
neminem facere liquamen assatorium melius quam meum.

CONVERSATION FILLERS

Is that so?
Ain tu?

Really?
Vero?

You dont say!
Dic! Itane est?

You can say that again!
Hercle qui tu recte dicis!

You know what they say...
Ut proverbium loquitur vetus...

here today, gone tomorrow.
quod adest hodie, cras aberit.

seen one, seen them all.
uno cum noris, omnia noris.

what goes around, comes around.
circumit ad idem, unde profectum est, reveniet.

que sera, sera.
quod fiet, fiet.

CONVERSATION ENDERS

God! Look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!

Excuse me. Ive got to see a man about a dog.
Mihi ignosce. Nunc est mihi cum quodam negotium de cane.

Darn! There goes my beeper!
Heu! Tintinnuntius meus sonat!

Im outta here.
Abeo.

Have a nice day.
Sit hic dies tibi iucundus.

PITHY LATIN EXPRESSIONS

By that very fact.
Ipso facto.

No way.
Nullo modo.

Read my lips.
Lege labia.

A done deal.
Pactum factum.

Fat chance.
Forsitan fiat.

Accidentally on purpose.
Casu consulto.

Royally screwed.
Raptus regaliter.

In a world of hurt.
Oppido dolens.

Hopefully.
Spes est.

II.

INFORMATIONAL LATIN

Lingua Latina Nuntiis

LATIN SIGNS FOR OUR TIMES

CAVE CANEM

Beware of dog

NOLI PERTURBARE

Do not disturb

NOLI INTRARE

Keep out

OPORTET MINISTROS MANUS LAVARE ANTEQUAM LATRINAM RELINQUANT

Employees must wash hands before leaving restroom

BARBARII IN HOC CURRU NON EST RADIOPHONIUMI

No radio!

TIBI GRAIIAS AGIMUS QUOD NIHIL FUMAS

Thank you for not smoking

SI HOC SIGNUM LEGERE POTES, OPUS REMUNERATIVUM OBTINERE POTES IN FORO ALACRI LUCRATIVOQUE LINGUAE LATINAE

If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!

LATIN BUMPER STICKERS FOR YOUR CHARIOT

CURSUM PRO FERIS REFRENO

I brake for animals

CONSERVEMUS BALAENAS

Save the whales

SONA SI LATINE LOQUERIS

Honk if you speak Latin

CUM CATAPULTAE PROSCRIPTAE ERUNT TUM SOLI PROSCRIPTI CATAPULTAS HABEBUNT

When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults

SI HUNC TITULUM CURRULEM LEGERE POTES, ET LIBERALITER EDUCATUS ES ET NIMIUM PROPRE ME SEQUERIS

If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close

LICENSE PLATES

INCITATUS

Speed demon

VAGANS

Cruising

LITORALIS

Beach bum

MANNUS

Mustang

FRACTUM

Jalopy

NITIDUS

Snazzy

URSUS

Bear

AMO VI-UM

I love sex

TURBO

Turbo

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