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In 1985 Eugene Ehrlich published a compendium of Latin phrases called Amo, Amas, Amat and More.(The Week)(Brief article)
In 1985 Eugene Ehrlich published a compendium of Latin phrases called Amo, Amas, Amat and More. The original title was All the Latin You Need to Know to Understand William F. Buckley and Others of That Ilk, but then Ehrlich had an even better idea and got Buckley to write the introduction. In it, our founder admitted that many phrases in the book have perfectly good English equivalents, such as ab asino lanam (wool from an ass), which is seen much less often than "blood from a stone." And yet, he ...
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