"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.

The danger of conflict had throughout been imminent; and the danger arose, not so much from the fact that the crusaders were armed men, marching through the country of professed allies, but from the thorough antagonism between Greeks and Latins in modes of thought and habits of life.

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

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.

In the rejection of the proposal to admit the Latins to the franchise it had been demonstrated with decisive clearness that the multitude in fact never voted for Gracchus, but always simply for itself.

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.

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

The consul Valerius, aided by the Latins of Tusculum, levied an army to attack the insurgents, on condition that after success the law should be fully considered.

The Américains grow derisive and find pastime in gibes and raillery They mock the various Latins with their national inflections, and answer their scowls with laughter.

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.

If Hannibal had expected to accomplish more in this way and to be able to lead even the Latins against Rome, these hopes had proved vain.

The Greeks and Latins within the walls were not less active in their exertions to meet the crisis.

However serious may have been the alienation between the East and West at the time of their separation, it is clear that the Greeks were not regarded by the Latins as a mere heretical sect, for one of the primary objects with which the First Crusade was undertaken was the deliverance of the Eastern Empire from the attacks of the Mahometans.