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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Ode to a Useless Language
• 1. A Home
• 2. What Is Latin?
• 3. Which Latin?
• 4. A Divine Alphabet
• 5. Understanding Latin with Catullus
• 6. Cicero’s Star-Studded Sky
• 7. Ennius’s Ghost
• 8. Caesar, or the Mea sures of Reality
• 9. The Power of Clarity: Lucretius
• 10. The Meaning of Sex: Back to Catullus
• 11. Syntactic Goose Bumps, or Virgil’s Shivering Sentences
• 12. The Master of Diffraction, Tacitus, and Sallust’s Brevity
• 13. Ovid, or the End of Identity
• 14. Breathing and Creaking: Reflections on Livy
• 15. The Word Umbra: Virgil’s Eclogues
• 16. Seneca, or the Serenity of Saying It All
• 17. Deviances and Dental Care: Apuleius and Petronius
• 18. Brambles, Chasms, and Memories: Augustine’s Linguistic Reformation
• 19. The Duty of Self-Improvement: Juvenal and Satire
• 20. The Loneliness of Love: Propertius
• 21. More on Happiness: The Lesson of Horace
• 22. Conclusion as Exhortation: Study Latin!
• Notes
• Acknowledgments