Ebook: How to Insult, Abuse & Insinuate in Classical Latin

Barnes & Noble. 1998. 66 pages. ISBN: 076071018XКак оскорбить, надругаться и опорочить на классическом латинском языке.When your contempt has reached classical proportions, crude Anglo-Saxon expletives just won't cut the mustard. Learn to express your outrage in the words of such late, great Romans as Horace, Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid - guys who could "dis" with class! Unapologetically quoting these famous Latin writers entirely out of context, the authors have compiled a witty, wicked litThis is a wonderful little book that gives one better insight into not just the history, but the people of classical times. In how people were in every-day life, and it's startling to see how similar we are, but also how different. This is really seen well when some of these abusive sayings are from graffiti.