The Latin Library is a website that collects public domainLatin texts. The texts have been drawn from different sources. Many were originally scanned and formatted from texts in the Public Domain. Others have been downloaded from various sites on the Internet (many of which have long since disappeared). Most of the recent texts have been submitted by contributors around the world. The texts are not intended for research purposes nor as substitutes for critical editions. There are no translations at the site. The site is maintained by William L. Carey, Esq., of Fairfax, Virginia, and is part of the larger Ad Fontes Academy website. The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ... Jump to: navigation, search Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
Latin is also still used (drawing heavily on Greek roots) to furnish the names used in the scientific classification of living things.
Latin is a synthetic inflectional language: affixes (which most times encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect in verbs, which is called conjugation.
Latin was once taught in most of the schools in Britain with academic leanings - perhaps 25% of the total [1].
Latin had once been an imperial language, a language of timeless beauty, spoken by beings of superior wisdom and virtue.
Ancient Latin literature could not truly be said to be alive once more until modern writers were able to capture their own experience in that incomparable vehicle of thought and feeling that is the Latin language.
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