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The purpose of this post is to collocate all the posts made in the Dē Variīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs series, a book edited by Franmōrārius (Franciscus Morales-Ardaya) who collected of over 1000 (!!!!) idioms, locutions, figures of speech, and proverbs from Classical and Renaissance literature. Listening to these audio recordings will allow the listener to become very familiar with the most common, most important, and most delightful expressions of Roman speech.

A sample is made available to the public for free (see below), while the rest of these entertaining and idiom-packed lessons are available to Senātōrēs ($5) Tier Patrons and above.

The entire audiobook is also available for sale on my audiobooks store if you're not already a Senātor patron.

01 Ad salutandum (freely available to the public) 

02 De valetudine 

03 Ire, proficisci 

04 Venire, redire 

05 De tempestate 

06 Aetas, condicio, mores 

07 Loqui, dicere 

08 Peter, concedere, abnuere 

09 Officium adhibere, gratias agere - 😊 Freely available to the public! share with your friends 

10 Varii usus verbi "facere" 

11 Sentire, sententiam agitare 

12 De conviviis seu epulis 

13 Vesper, nox, somnus 

14 Vendere, emere, solvere 

15 De variis ludis 

16 Altercatio, accusationes, excusationes 

17 Attente audire, animum attendere 

18 Videre, animadvertere, observare 

19 Explanare, difficultatem aperire 

20 Studiīs vacāre, legere, memoriae mandāre • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

21 Interpretārī, scrīptiōnī aninum adhibēre • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

22 Calamum cōnfōrmāre, scrībere • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

23 Dē epistolīs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

24.1 Variae locūtiōnēs familiārēs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

24.2 Variae locūtiōnēs familiārēs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

24.3 Variae locūtiōnēs familiārēs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

24.4 Variae locūtiōnēs familiārēs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

25.1 Variae fōrmulae percūnctandī • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

25.2 Variae Variae fōrmulae percūnctandī • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

25.3 Variae locūtiōnēs familiārēs • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

26.1 Idiōtismī et prōverbia • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 

26.2 Idiōtismī et prōverbia • Dē Variīs Latīnīs Colloquendī Fōrmulīs 


Comments

Anonymous

FYI: You can find the text on archive.org at https://archive.org/details/morales-ardaya-franciscus-de-variis-latinis-graecisque-colloquendi-formulis/mode/2up

Anonymous

Hi Luke, are you also planning on recording the greek idioms in the book in a similar manner? That would be amazing!

LukeRanieri

I decided against it, as I was advised the Greek idioms are actually of dubious quality, not being attested in antiquity, and mostly being calques of the Latin. But I have future plans for good idiom in Greek.