A B C Et Cetera The Life And Times Of The Roman Alphabet

In classic abecedarian fashion A B C Et Cetera originally published in 1985 takes from the rich Roman cornucopia more than enough to demonstrate the fact that sixty percent of our working vocabulary descends directly from the Latin. Nothing in Roman culture – and Romance – is beyond the measure and mischief of the brothers Humez: not unicorns Vestal Virgins and maledicta balloons; not Roman nomenclature dating systems and numbering; not Roman religion education humor law slavery literature and not of course the gluttonous Ampersand. |A B C Et Cetera The Life and Times of the Roman Alphabet