Nota Bene A Guide to Familiar Latin Quotes and Phrases.

"Now that the study of classics has become less common than it was a hundred years ago, many educated English-speaking people welcome a succinct guide to the Latin roots of their language. Perhaps half of all English words in current use are of Latin origin, and it is inseparable from the study of the Romance languages: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. In addition, the great writers of Roman civilization have left their imprint on these living languages in the form of quotations, maxims, anecdotes, figures of speech, and ideas that are still germane to and powerful almost 2,000 years later. Through all its phases of development, from the preliterary Latin of ancient Italy through the Medieval Latin European schools and monasteries that preserved the classical heritage, Latin has endured as a language of rare beauty and precision, coloring our lives in ways we many even be aware of. In the realm of language, all roads do, indeed, lead to Rome."--