This book demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex examples of Latin abbreviation, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and the ministry.

Scientia est potentia (knowledge is power)! More Latin for the Illiterati demystifies the terminology of modern courtrooms and hospitals, untangles some of the most complex and unforgiving examples of Latin abbreviations, and allows readers to explore the classical roots of law, medicine and religion.

This new collection contains some 5000 entries devoted to law, medicine and religion, and includes phrases like:
-- jus sibi dicere - to take the law into one's own hands
-- hircosus - smelling like a goat
-- opprobrium medicum (the reproach of physicians) - an incurable disease
-- ita et viri debent diligere uxores ut corpora sua - so men ought to love their wives as their own bodies (Ephesians 5:28)
-- amicus curiae - a friend of the court

Practicing or aspiring doctors, lawyers or clergy, language-lovers, students of literature -- and anybody who loved Latin for the Illiterati, will want More.... This collection also makes an ideal gift.

"Stone had done a masterful job of rendering Latin phrases into palatable English. His Latin reference work is beautifully laid out and easy to accesss. The choice of entries introduces professional terms in style: neatly, succintly, and gracefully." -- ARBA 2000
"It provides more specialized vocabularies that other handbooks of Latin phrases...and is the only one to provide a separate English to Latin index and a list of abbreviations...it will be helpful to public and undergraduate libraries." -- Choice, March 2000
"This dictionary contains many terms not found in other recent Latin-English dictionaries." -- Library Journal