The title page to Goślicki's The Counsellor from 1598

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

In his spare time, Grand polishes up his Latin, and he is also writing a book, but he is such a perfectionist that he continually rewrites the first sentence and can get no further.

An exception to this general tendency is his Latin treatise " De falconibus " ( later inserted in the larger work, De Animalibus, as book 23, chapter 40 ), in which he displays impressive actual knowledge of a ) the differences between the birds of prey and the other kinds of birds ; b ) the different kinds of falcons ; c ) the way of preparing them for the hunt ; and d ) the cures for sick and wounded falcons.

This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

The preface mentions that Ceolwulf received an earlier draft of the book ; presumably Ceolwulf knew enough Latin to understand it, and he may even have been able to read it.

Jerome, in the introduction to his Latin translation of the books of Samuel and Kings ( part of the Vulgate ), referred to the book as a chronikon (" Chronicles " in English ).

1 and 2 Samuel were originally ( and still is in some Jewish bibles ) a single book, but the first Greek translation, produced in the centuries immediately before Christ, divided it into two ; this was adopted by the Latin translation used in the early Christian church of the West, and finally introduced into Jewish bibles around the early 16th century CE.

" in some Latin commentaries, from the Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth ) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on Jerusalem and the Holy Land by the Chaldeans.

Readings, chantings, and choral settings, of the book of Lamentations, are used in the Christian religious service known as the Tenebrae ( Latin for darkness ).

The book of Malachi is divided into three chapters in the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Septuagint and four chapters in the Latin Vulgate.

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

The 1549 book then dispensed with the Latin, and with all non-biblical readings ; and established a rigorously biblical cycle of readings for Morning and Evening Prayer ( set according to the calendar year, rather than the ecclesiastical year ) and a Psalter to be read consecutively throughout each month.

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.

Gauss also made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae ( Latin, Arithmetical Investigations ), which, among things, introduced the symbol ≡ for congruence and used it in a clean presentation of modular arithmetic, contained the first two proofs of the law of quadratic reciprocity, developed the theories of binary and ternary quadratic forms, stated the class number problem for them, and showed that a regular heptadecagon ( 17-sided polygon ) can be constructed with straightedge and compass.

He may have also been inspired by the Latin or English translation of a book by the Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath Ibn Tufail, who was known as " Abubacer " in Europe.

The Latin edition of the book was entitled Philosophus Autodidactus and it was an earlier novel that is also set on a deserted island.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

The book is particularly notable for its iconic phrases, " the sun also rises ," " is nothing new under the sun " (, Latin Vulgate: ' nihil novi sub sole ') and " he who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.

We possess only a Latin translation of the first book, made by Rufinus ;

The 900-page book, titled Elementorum physicae mathematicae, written in Latin by Jesuit Father Andrea Caraffa, a professor at the Collegio Romano, covered subjects like mathematics, classical mechanics, astronomy, optics, and acoustics.

Leaving Rome in 1540, Francis took with him a breviary, a catechism and a Latin book () written by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić that had become popular in the counter-reformation.

He brought out, in the Annals of Oriental Literature ( London, 1820 ), an essay entitled, " Analytical Comparison of the Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and Teutonic Languages ", in which he extended to all parts of the grammar what he had done in his first book for the verb alone.

Among his very numerous works two poems entitle him to a distinguished place in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages ; one of these, the De planctu naturae, is an ingenious satire on the vices of humanity.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

Latin translation of Abū Maʿshar's De Magnis Coniunctionibus (‘ Of the great Conjunction ( astronomy and astrology ) | conjunctions ’), Venice, 1515. Astrology was taken up by Islamic scholars following the collapse of Alexandria to the Arabs in the 7th century, and the founding of the Abbasid empire in the 8th.

One of these was his De arte metrica, a discussion of the composition of Latin verse, drawing on previous grammarians work.

Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.

Divi Cæcilii Cypriani, Carthaginensis Episcopi, Opera Omnia ; accessit J. Firmici Materni, Viri Clarissimi, De Errore Profanarum Religionum ( in Latin ).

* De natura animalium at LacusCurtius ( complete Latin translation )

De jure ( in Classical Latin de iure ) is an expression that means " concerning fact ".

** De rerum natura by Lucretius ( Latin Literature, Epicurean philosophy )

** De triumphis ecclesiae by Johannes de Garlandia ( Latin )

In the late 18th century the Italian physician and anatomist Luigi Galvani marked the birth of electrochemistry by establishing a bridge between chemical reactions and electricity on his essay " De Viribus Electricitatis in Motu Musculari Commentarius " ( Latin for Commentary on the Effect of Electricity on Muscular Motion ) in 1791 where he proposed a " nerveo-electrical substance " on biological life forms.

In 1600, the English scientist William Gilbert returned to the subject in De Magnete, and coined the New Latin word electricus from ηλεκτρον ( elektron ), the Greek word for " amber ", which soon gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity.

* De triumphis ecclesiae, a Latin epic in elegiac metre, written c. 1250 by Johannes de Garlandia, an English grammarian who taught at the universities of Toulouse and Paris.

De Viris Illustribus ( in Latin ).

In 1766 he published a doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum ( On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body ), which discussed the influence of the Moon and the planets on the human body and on disease.

This New Learning and the Humanist movement, particularly the work of Linacre, promoted literae humaniores including Galen in the Latin scientific canon, De Naturalibus Facultatibus appearing in London in 1523.

* Agricola's work on gemstones and mineralogy: De Natura Fossilium, translated from Latin by Mark Chance Bandy

The first recorded use of incunabula as a printing term is in a Latin pamphlet by Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, De ortu et progressu artis typographicae (" Of the rise and progress of the typographic art ", Cologne, 1639 ), which includes the phrase prima typographicae incunabula, " the first infancy of printing ", a term to which he arbitrarily set an end, 1500, which still stands as a convention.

He then wrote a seven-volume account in Greek known to us as the Jewish War ( Latin Bellum Judaicum or De Bello Judaico ).

This treatise ( Della pittura ) was also known in Latin as De Pictura, and it relied in its scientific content on classical optics in determining perspective as a geometric instrument of artistic and architectural representation.

An Italian translation of De pictura ( Della pittura ) was published in 1436, one year after the original Latin version and addressed Filippo Brunelleschi in the preface.