"Methinks it is Latin for a ditch," responded Geoffrey.

The work of translating the Latin of the Roman Breviary into English was attempted and completed years ago.

Brown, well built, light on his feet, with heavy black hair growing low on his forehead, and long blackish-gray eyes, there was something Latin in the grace of his movements and in his glance.

" To these brave and picturesque friends of ours he dedicates his study, The Latin at War (CONSTABLE).

The singers of his court found in him a brother singer, gathering the old songs of his people to teach them to his children, breaking his renderings from the Latin with simple verse, solacing himself in hours of depression with the music of the Psalms.

To suppose that Christianity is pledged to more than this common substratum which none deny, except through verbal confusion, that there is no road to faith but through what is peculiar to scholasticism, or that my first step in converting a man to Christ must be to convert him to Aristotle, is about as intelligent as to suppose that because the Church has adopted Latin as her official language she means to discredit every other.

Mary Lamb taught Latin to Mary Cowden Clarke (when Mary Victoria Novello) and to William Hazlitt's son, also to Miss Kelly.

Alfred the Great begins his translations from Latin into Anglo-Saxon.

Bonamy,[AK] on the other hand, is of opinion, that soon after that conquest, a corruption of vulgar Latin by the Celtic formed the Romance, which he takes to be the language always meant by authors when they speak of the Lingua Romana used in Gaul.

# 1. Latin from which the Romances are derived.

He wrote in Latin on a vast range of subjects, from the Scriptures to natural science, and from grammar to history.

The travellers proceeded at once to Philippi, a city more Latin than Grecian, and began their work; making converts, chiefly women, among whom Lydia was the most distinguished, a wealthy woman who traded in purple.

Generally I acknowledge that it is not polite before our female friends to cite a single word of Latin without instantly translating it.

For a time, therefore, three languages existed side by side in the countryAnglo- Saxon among the common folk, Latin among the clergy, and Norman-French at the court and among the nobility.

Sportsmen always pride themselves in placing Xenophon, the general, philosopher, and historian, at the head of sporting writers, although his treatise on the chase (translated from the Greek into Latin under the title of "De Venatione"), which gives excellent advice respecting the training of dogs, only speaks of traps and nets for capturing wild animals.

PIUS was up on his feet, talking Latin like a crack student of the Propaganda.

This man wrote one in Latin about his journey to his native town of Gades, had it put on the stage there, and shed tears during its performance.[504] When we hear of plays being written without being acted, and of tragedies being made the occasion of expressing political opinions, we may be pretty sure that the drama is in its nonage.

I learnt no Latin until my eighth year.

It was a special despatch from Lisbon dated that morning, and signed simply "Gault." Completely translated it ran thus: "Secret offensive and defensive alliance of the Latin against the English-speaking nations of the world is planned.

Les huit Décades traduites du latin avec notes et commentaires, par Paul Gaffarel, Paris.

A great many, out of excess of good breeding, having heard it was rude to talk Latin before women, propose complimenting her in English; which she will be much the better for.

And he handed Mr. Pucker a sheet of paper, on which he had scribbled the following: "To be turned into Latin after the Manner of the Animals of Tacitus: She went into the garden to cut a cabbage to make an apple-pie.

You may be sure that if spiritual and intellectual life had its representatives, as we have seen, spiritual and intellectual death had its representatives, tooby which I don't mean either to imply that the M.A.'s were dead M.A.'s, dead and buried with Latin over them in the old brassed and effigied church, which was so old and large that it was hardly less conceited than a cathedral.