This beautiful little book is a work of art in itself. Printed by the Godine Press ( )

The Humez Brothers claim, and rightly so, that language can tell us about the culture it belongs to. From this book, you can also watch the transformation in the language from Early Latin to Late Latin as words are borrowed from their Etruscan, Germanic, and Gallic neighbors. Each chapter is short, and so this would make for a decent bathroom reader (or you can churn through it a day, like I did).

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