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Veni, Vidi, Vici: Conquer Your Enemies, Impress Your Friends with Everyday Latin

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This is a companion volume / continuation of his popular "Amo, Amas, Amat" book. As in the first book, the author includes hundreds of Latin mottoes, sayings, bon mots, and proverbs. They are ordered alphabetically, each followed by its pronunciation (in an informal but generally useful transcription), and general sense. Most of the entries have an explanatory sentence or two, giving the background, source, and literal translation. A fun book; helpful to the student of Latin, and entertaining and educational to the general reader. Well worth the money!

When I got this book, it was when I needed to say something in Latin to impress a few friends and teachers. This is a very good book, tells you almost every Latin saying you'll ever need as well as being ordered very nicely. The index is also very good and I think this book gives good detail without going too far. Great book and also a nice way to annoy some people when you don't like them.

This is simply follow-up of "AMO AMAS AMAT & MORE." If you are not familar with Latin phrases, you would be disappointed with this book, since there are many phrases which are not covered in this book, and are covered in "AMO AMAS AMAT & MORE."

I like the Hardcover edition of "AMO AMAS AMAT & MORE" instead of paperback, as the paperback covers are simply easy to be damaged. You can find the hadcover edition of "AMO AMAS AMAT & MORE" @ Amazon Market Place ..... less than $1!!! for Good Used copies w/ Dustjacket. I paid only 69 cents + shipping for a very good used copy (hardcover w/dustjacket), while I paid $3.94 + shipping for a used paperback copy of "VENI, VIDI, VICI."

I'm what you might call a collector of languages. I like to study languages of various sorts, not necessarily to become fluent in them, but simply to learn about them and think about them. Latin is certainly one of the more interesting languages to study, if not because one finds it fascinating in itself (which I do), then because it has influenced modern languages so much.

Veni, Vidi, Vici is a great book to open to a random page and read for a few minutes. And it's rather amusing to throw around Latin phrases such as "Mars gravior sub pace lacet" ("a more serious war lies hidden in peace") to see how people react.

Whether or not you are interested in actually learning Latin, this is a very interesting and fun book to read. If nothing else, it can get your mind thinking about just how pervasive Latin roots are in the language we speak today. If you are a fellow helluo librorum ("devourer of books"), you will definitely like Veni, Vidi, Vici.

While this is an interesting book, it's not as practical as I'd hoped. I was looking for a resource for finding very common Latin phrases - the kind we all hear and then nod as if we really know what they mean! This book had a lot of phrases, but most of them I'd never hear or use, and when I looked for common ones, they weren't there. I probably should have read the reviews more carefully before I bought it!

A fairly good collection of Latin proverbs but it assumes that you need a modern day (i.e. simplistic) translation. It does include the literal translation in most cases but I did not like having to scan the paragraph below the phrase for it. I'm also curious how an negative admonition to Rush Limbaugh fits into such a book. Methinks I can determine what political affiliation the author or editor claims and that's too bad. I'll be looking for something else that meets my expectations of such a serious subject.

I took Latin class in my senior year of high school. I was the only student in the class and my Latin teacher was one of my favorite teacher. I got this book from him for Latin award. He inspires me a lot and I really enjoy study this book. It is a very useful book for Latin studay if you really have strong amibition. " Vini vidi vici" is one of my favorite phrase now.

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ullis et rident stolidi verba Latina.