Veni, Vidi, Vici: Conquer Your Enemies, Impress Your Friends with Everyday Latin

by Eugene Ehrlich

Book Overview

An updated edition of Eugene Ehrlich's classic yet cheeky guide for using everyday Latin to your advantage As entertaining as it is informative, VENI, VIDI, VICI has more than 1,000 Latin words and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062733656
• ISBN13: 9780062733658
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent for students of Latin, or even just casual readers

I'm what you might call a collector of languages. I like to study languages of various sorts, not necessarily to become fluent in them, but simply to learn about them and think about them. Latin is certainly one of the more interesting languages to study, if not because one finds it fascinating in itself (which I do), then because it has influenced modern languages so much.Veni, Vidi, Vici is a great book to open to a random page and read for a few minutes. And it's rather amusing to throw around Latin phrases such as "Mars gravior sub pace lacet" ("a more serious war lies hidden in peace") to see how people react.Whether or not you are interested in actually learning Latin, this is a very interesting and fun book to read. If nothing else, it can get your mind thinking about just how pervasive Latin roots are in the language we speak today. If you are a fellow helluo librorum ("devourer of books"), you will definitely like Veni, Vidi, Vici.

Ad hoc

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ullis et rident stolidi verba Latina.

Latin Sayings; Great for Impressions

When I got this book, it was when I needed to say something in Latin to impress a few friends and teachers. This is a very good book, tells you almost every Latin saying you'll ever need as well as being ordered very nicely. The index is also very good and I think this book gives good detail without going too far. Great book and also a nice way to annoy some people when you don't like them.

A follow-up to "Amo, Amas, Amat..."

This is a companion volume / continuation of his popular "Amo, Amas, Amat" book. As in the first book, the author includes hundreds of Latin mottoes, sayings, bon mots, and proverbs. They are ordered alphabetically, each followed by its pronunciation (in an informal but generally useful transcription), and general sense. Most of the entries have an explanatory sentence or two, giving the background, source, and literal translation. A fun book; helpful to the student of Latin, and entertaining and educational to the general reader. Well worth the money!

A remarkable book for me

I took Latin class in my senior year of high school. I was the only student in the class and my Latin teacher was one of my favorite teacher. I got this book from him for Latin award. He inspires me a lot and I really enjoy study this book. It is a very useful book for Latin studay if you really have strong amibition. " Vini vidi vici" is one of my favorite phrase now.