LATIN VIA PROVERBS

LATIN VIA PROVERBS

4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin

by Laura Gibbs, Ph.D.

Published by Lulu Publishers 860 Aviation Parkway Morrisville, NC 27560 (919) 459-5858 ? 2006 Laura Gibbs. All rights reserved.

This book is part of Bestiaria Latina, a collection of online and printed Latin language teaching materials. For more information, visit the website:

Non scholae sed vitae discimus.

LATIN VIA PROVERBS

This book and its companion website, , are designed to help you study Latin by means of proverbs. There are already many collections of Latin proverbs in print, but they are not very useful for the study of Latin. Proverb collections are usually organized alphabetically or by source or by topic, but in this book the proverbs are organized by Latin grammatical categories. This allows you to find easy-to-read proverbs exactly suited to your level of Latin, whether you are a beginning or an intermediate student.

Beginning Latin students. If you are a beginning Latin student, you can work through this book based on the order that the grammar is presented in your textbook. Do not try to do this book in order; instead, follow the order in which the nouns and verbs are presented in your textbook. You can use the Table of Contents in this book (pages xv-xix) to find proverbs that match the nouns and verbs you are studying.

Intermediate Latin students. If you are an intermediate Latin student who already has completed a course in Latin, you can use this book as a systematic review of Latin grammar. You either can work through this book from start to finish, or you can focus on the specific categories of Latin nouns and verbs that you most want to practice.

What Are Proverbs?

English, like Latin, is a language of many proverbs. You might find it fun to sit down for a half hour or so and make a list of the first English proverbs that come to mind: All that glitters is not gold, You can't judge a book by its cover, A stitch in time saves nine, All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, It takes one to know one, A rolling stone gathers no moss and so on. In the pages of this book, you will find many Latin proverbs that are equivalent to the English proverbs you already know. In fact, there are quite a few English proverbs

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