Penguin Latin Dictionary

Veterans of TK will recall my saying a few years ago that I was working as co-editor on a medium-size Latin dictionary which was attempting the novelty of including every word that occurs in 23 of the most common Latin authors (excluding proper names). These authors are: Plautus, Terence, Nepos, Cicero, Caesar, Lucretius, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, Sallust, Livy, Seneca (letters and tragedies), Lucan, Persius, Statius, Martial, Tacitus, Pliny the younger, Juvenal, Suetonius. This post merely states that - at last - this dictionary is now available, albeit only via Amazon for non-European residents at present (just search ‘Penguin Latin Dictionary’ at www.amazon.co.uk). The dictionary has a smaller Eng-Lat section and various appendices but its primary virtue, I think, is to have the most number of Latin headwords of any Anglophone dictionary in the last 200 years (excluding the two mammoths, Lewis & Short and the OLD).
I trust all are well.

~D

whiteoctave,

You are to be congratulated. It sounds like a tremendous effort and I hope the book becomes a success for you. I suspect there are many in the past who have attempted such a feat and never followed it through to completion.

Perhaps a change of avatar is in order for you.

and so Whiteoctave returns… (as a spammer?!)