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Scientia est potentia (knowledge is power)! More Latin for the Illiterati demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex and unforgiving examples of Latin abbreviations, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and religion.This new collection contains some 5000 entries devoted to law, medicine and religion, and includes phrases like:
-- jus sibi dicere - to take the law into one's own hands
-- hircosus - smelling like a goat
-- opprobrium medicum (the reproach of physicians) - an incurable disease
-- ita et viri debent diligere uxores ut corpora sua - so men ought to love their wives as their own bodies (Ephesians 5:28)
-- amicus curiae - a friend of the courtPracticing or aspiring doctors, lawyers or clergy, language-lovers, students of literature -- and anybody who loved Latin for the Illiterati, will want More.... This collection also makes an ideal gift.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Medical Latin; Chapter 2 Legal Latin; Chapter 3 Religious Latin; Chapter 4 Abbreviations; Chapter 5 Miscellaneous; Chapter 6 Roman Catholic Liturgy (Selections);
About the author
Jon R. Stone is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and Lecturer in the English Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of Latin for theIlliterati (1996) and Guide to the End of the World:Popular Eschatology in America (1993).
Summary
This book demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex examples of Latin abbreviation, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and the ministry.
