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    Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
    Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
    Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
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    Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

    By Maia Lee-Chin and Marta Bertello

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    A gorgeously illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more.

    Latin may be a “dead” language, but it’s all around us—in science, philosophy, religion, and literature. From “carpe diem” to the more obscure “alea iacta est,” classicist Maia Lee-Chin examines the deeper meanings of many Latin phrases still in use—as well as those lost to the ages.

    Illustrated in artist Marta Bertello's haunting style, this unique compendium illuminates ancient Roman history and culture like never before.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateAug 27, 2024
    ISBN9781524897307
    Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

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      A brief look at some interesting Latin phrases.Each phrase has an English translation, an attribution, and a short explanation of how it was used. I really appreciated Lee-Chin not filling the book with well known selections; although she does include phrases that are still commonly used in either Latin or English translation (carpe diem, swan song), she introduces the reader to a wide variety of more obscure phrases.Although the text is interesting, Marta Bertello's illustrations are the true draw here. Each entry is accompanied by a black, white, and red drawing that perfectly illustrates the phrase.Received via NetGalley.

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    Et Cetera - Maia Lee-Chin

    Et Cetera copyright © 2024 by Maia Lee-Chin. Illustrations by Marta Bertello. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

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    Contents

    Map of the Roman Empire

    Timeline of the Roman Empire

    Introduction

    Literature

    Exegi monumentum aere perennius

    Carmen et error

    Acta est fabula, plaudite

    Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade

    Pierius menti calor incidit

    Omnis ad accessus Heliconos semita trita est

    Invita Minerva

    Satura quidem tota nostra est

    Faciam ut mei memineris

    Auribus teneo lupum

    Cygnea cantio

    Love, Friendship, and Family

    Omnia vincit amor

    Serves animae dimidium meae

    Sed pecasse iuvat

    Lesbia quid docuit Sappho nisi amare puellas

    Et ama quod femina debes

    Invisus natalis adest

    Soror anima

    Hic vitam tribuit sed hic amicum

    Odi et amo

    Vestales nostras hodie credimus

    Mythology

    Lupus in fabula

    Manus manum lavat

    Quid si comantur?

    Neque semper arcum tendit Apollo

    Equo ne credite, timeo danaos et dona ferentes

    Bella gerant alii Protesilaus amet!

    Igitur censuit Asinius Gallus ut libri Sibyllini adirentur

    Is Venerem e rapido sentiet esse mari

    Military and Power

    Teneo te Africa

    Carthago delenda est

    Imperium sine fine

    Absit invidia

    Alea iacta est

    Sub iugum mittere

    In fluvium primi cecidere, in corpora summi

    Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

    Oderint dum metuant

    Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

    Culture and Philosophy

    Memento mori

    Fortes fortuna iuvat

    Carpe diem

    Nunc est bibendum

    Sol omnibus lucet

    Defico illeus vitam et mentem et memoriam

    Fugi, tene me

    Panem et circenses

    Nemo saltat sobrius

    Sutor, ne supra crepidam

    Damnatio memoriae

    Acknowledgments

    Bibliography

    Index

    About the Author and Illustrator

    Introduction

    My love for the ancient Romans developed slowly. The stories never affected me as a child; Roman mythology did not capture my interest. In high school, I was forced to enroll in Latin. I considered dropping the course several times, especially while translating Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico ; I couldn’t understand his long-winded explanations of wartime strategies, and I had no love for Roman history. But something changed when I first translated the Aeneid from Latin to English. Maybe because I didn’t expect it, I was struck by the kinship I felt with Aeneas. His experiences were unfamiliar, yet I sensed I knew him intimately, like a dear friend. Vergil’s poetry conveyed emotions I could not have expressed in my native English, but touched on themes I knew well—displacement and exodus, a responsibility to one’s family, the difficulties of starting over. Aeneas founded a new life in an unfamiliar place, a responsibility known to many children of immigrants. He cared for a war-weathered people, destined to establish a Rom an future.

    I am a Black and Chinese woman—a second-generation American—and I explore the ancient world through these lenses. On paper, anyway, I am not your typical classicist. And yet, I have found a home in Roman stories. I carry the weight of Romans’ lives wherever I go. I take them with me from conversation to conversation, in each turn of phrase: Ancient women weave stories with threads in their homes while I hem my too-long pants; the rhetoricians whittle their perfectly crafted words while I parse a politician’s speech. I feel the connection so profoundly that I can’t help but think that Vergil wrote the Aeneid for me, that I am his patron, thousands of years later.

    I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City the other day and felt overwhelmed. Standing before the sculptures in the ancient Roman and Greek section, seeing my own life reflected in their polished bronze, I wept. This feeling of on-fire recognition—of communion with a people long gone—wasn’t new to me, but it was the first time this history had seemed to return my gaze. I felt deeply for those lives, and they were gone. They were thousands of years removed from me, but a narrative thread connected us, pulling and tugging.

    Not everyone will feel moved to tears by Boxer at Rest, but I hope, dear reader, that this book will invite you into previously distant histories, blending that past with your present. Perhaps, then, these narrative threads will tangle, tying our futures together.

    How to use this book

    Rather than organize the phrases alphabetically, I have employed a technique called carmen perpetuum, a continual narrative. The poet Ovid uses this method in the Metamorphoses, stringing myths together so they flow narratively from one to the next. To make the most of the book’s organization, I recommend reading it from front to back as some details carry over from one entry to the next. That said, it isn’t necessary to read the book this way, and the index will be a helpful tool if you decide to read it out of order. Whatever your approach, I encourage you to pause frequently, exploring whatever doorways may open for you. Above all, this book is meant to invite further exploration into the ancient world. Many resources are available to those who wish to dive deeper: excellent translations of ancient texts, museum exhibits, and other media to feed your imagination.

    Curation of phrases

    Each of us looks at the world through a particular frame—a unique keyhole. We can barely see beyond its edges. Sometimes things can shift into focus, and sometimes it’s an optical illusion. We may spend years trying to widen our view by acquiring knowledge, reading, watching,

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