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      HISTORIAM VERO, QVA TOT SIMVL RERVM LONGA ET CONTINVATA RATIO SIT HABENDA CAVSAEQVE FACTORVM OMNIVM SINGVLATIM EXPLICANDAE ET DE QVACVMQVE RE IVDICIVM IN MEDIO PROFERENDVM, EAM QVIDEM VELVT INFINITA MOLE CALAMVM OBRVENTE TAM PROFITERI PERICVLOSVM EST QVAM PRAESTARE DIFFICILE.

      But a history, in which a long, continuous account must be given of so many things at once, and the causes of all the events explained singly, and a judgment offered on each, with its infinite-seeming mass bearing down on the pen, is as dangerous to propose as it is difficult to deliver.

      Leonardo Bruni, Historia Populi Florentini, preface

      IDEO AVTEM PRIVS DE LINGVIS, AC DEINDE DE GENTIBVS POSVIMVS, QVIA EX LINGVIS GENTES, NON EX GENTIBVS LINGVAE EXORTAE SVNT.

      Therefore we have first discussed languages, and only then peoples, because peoples have arisen from languages, not languages from peoples.

      Isidore, Etymologiae, ix.1.14

      LECTOR INTENDE: LAETABERIS.

      Reader, pay attention. You will enjoy yourself.

      Apuleius, Metamorphoseon, i.1

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

Praefatio

Part I : A Latin World

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

       Part II : Latin Recruits

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Part III : Worlds Built On Latin

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Part IV : Latin In A Vernacular World

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Appendix I

       Appendix II

       Appendix III

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       About the Author

       Praise

       By the Same Author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher