“Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.”
“A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!”
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid.""Any will do," the rabbi replied in Provençal."Splendid. Latin it is," said Pope Clement.”
“And once he had got really drunk on wine,Then he would speak no language but Latin.”
“If you ask me if I know how to speak Latin, I’ll say, “No, it’s all Greek to me.”
“But a central message there is, and it is the recognition of this that has led to the common treatment of the Bible as a book, and not simply a collection of books - just as the Greek plural biblia (books) became the Latin singular biblia (the book).”