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Ludus
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For some hidden Freudian reason, almost all beginner’s Latin books begin with vocabularies of “farmers”, “daughters”, “sailors”, and several seemingly innocent verbs describing various things these nouns can do to each other. Throughout the years, countless British school boys have probably been secretly making up adolescent fantasies from those memorable passages containing these beginner’s vocaburaries, not knowing the true historical account of these events.
Now, finally, a Latin book tells you what really went on between the farmers’ daugheters and the sailors: ……(read more)