Ad Hoc, Ad Lib, Ad Nauseam: So You Think You Don't Speak Latin?

Ad Hoc, Ad Lib, Ad Nauseam: So You Think You Don't Speak Latin?

by JohnParker (Author)

Synopsis

Ad libitum (ad lib) At pleasure. In a stage play, a line or comment which does not appear in the script, but which the actor speaks at his own pleasure or that of the director. If you are offered something ad libitum, you are free to accept or reject as you see fit; written on a doctor's prescription, ad lib means 'to be taken freely'.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 196
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 01 Sep 2008

ISBN 10: 1840246952
ISBN 13: 9781840246957

Author Bio
John Parker lives and writers in Cornwall, where he divides his spare time between teaching the revived Cornish language and devotion to his placens uxor (long-suffering wife). He is a member of the Classical Association and The Friends of Classics, and contributes to their magazines, and the author of Reading Latin Epitaphs (Exeter University Press).