10 September 2009

Letter from Lhasa, number 138. (Mount 2006): Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that

Letter from Lhasa, number 138. (Mount 2006): Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that

by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Mount, H., Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that. How to become a Latin Lover, Short Books, London, UK, 2006.

(Mount 2006).

Harry Mount

Perhaps, the right expression should have been Latin's Lover and not Latin Lover. It is a book about Latin. It is not about love.

De gustibus non est disputandum. In my opinion, it is a book to be read, better to be studied, from the last chapter to the first one. Quod erat demonstrandum.

...Although the grammar be not sufficiently concentrated. So, perhaps, it is a book to be read very fast for the interesting information it provides, while taking notes of the parts, tables frequently, needing to be studied, alias memorised.

Mount, H., Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that. How to become a Latin Lover, Short Books, London, UK, 2006.