Which Way to the Vomitorium?: Vernacular Latin for All Occasions

by Rose Williams (Translator), Lesley O'Mara (Editor)

Tired of feeling like "The Ugly American" every time you visit the Vatican? Fed up with having to consult a dictionary when all you want to say is, "I've just been run over by a chariot!"? Well, now you can prepare yourself for almost every papal problem and haphazard happenstance with Which Way to the Vomitorium?: Vernacular Latin for All Occasions.

Enhance your small talk at dinner parties with such gems as "Esne ebrius iterum?" (Are you drunk again?) and "Suntne illi glires novi?" (Are these dormice fresh?). Relive the tedium of traveling by introducing your children to Latin with "Paene adventimus?" (Are we nearly there yet?).

With over 450 phrases and a recipe for "liquamen," Which Way to the Vomitorium? will have you leading that ancient Roman lifestyle in no time, teaching you everything you need to know if you want to properly pontificate with the Pontiff or survive in the Old World neighborhoods of Pompeii.

Genres: Language, Reference, Humor

122 pages, Hardcover

First published October 12, 1999

Reviews

[Mati · Rating 5 out of 5]

The conversation books are my passion and I grabbed remains of my Latin and bought this book to get it little bit refreshed. Frankly I learnt many useful phrases:

The room service is very poor--- Ministerium camerae pessimum est.

Thanks for the chat. See you again soon.--- Gratias pro sermone. Videam te mox.

Kill him.---Neca eum.

I came. I saw. I ate it all. Veni. Vidi.Voravi.

And there are many phrases better then those in this book. Buy it and read it and ofcourse learn it for daily use.

[Ram · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surprisingly unuseful.