Latin
Encyclopedias written in Latin.
- Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro
- Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder
- Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville
- Speculum Maius of Vincent of Beauvais
- De proprietatibus rerum of Bartholomeus Anglicus
- Liber de natura rerum of Thomas of Cantimpré
- Fons memorabilium universi of Domenico Bandini of Arezzo
- Latin Wikipedia
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Famous quotes containing the word latin:
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imagination’s Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“[B]y going to the College [William and Mary] I shall get a more universal Acquaintance, which may hereafter be serviceable to me; and I suppose I can pursue my Studies in the Greek and Latin as well there as here, and likewise learn something of the Mathematics.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Whither goest thou?”
—Bible: New Testament Peter, in John, 13:36.
The words, which are repeated in John 16:5, are best known in the Latin form in which they appear in the Vulgate: Quo vadis? Jesus replies, “Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.”