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Latin Phrase Book"Nothing could be more systematic or more complete." The Spectator Meissner's Latin Phrase Book has long been the standard school guide to Latin idiom. Covering every sphere of activity known to the Romans, from domestic life to politics, law, religion and warfare, it lists in each category all the main expressions used in classical Latin and concludes with a 50 page index. This classic textbook offers a large collection of Latin idioms and phrases

The Roman elite idealized farming and service to the state but treated many other occupations with suspicion or contempt

Seneca accumulated a fortune—but taught that money can’t buy happiness

The ideas prevalent in fifth-century Athens retain their powerful influence across the modern world

Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny

be they Zeus or Odysseus

and a comprehensive vocabulary

In addition to its inviting and reliable translation

he recreates what it was to be a young poet in the heady world of the Roman republic

and Aeneas' response to this – as combatant in Troy

Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over

The order of the grammar in this book is the same as in Elementary Latin Exercises

To that end