Elementary Latin Dictionary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199102058 ISBN 13: 9780199102051

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1963

With a vocabulary extended to include all words used by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Tacitus, as well as those used by Terence, Caesar, Sallust, Cicero, Livy, Nepos, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Juvenal, Phaedrus, and Curtius, this abridgement of Lewis's Latin Dictionary for Schools excludes proper names and detailed references to books and passages, and limits illustrative citations.

From the Back Cover:

This is substantially an abridgment of the author's' Latin Dictionary for Schools'. The vocabulary has been extended to include all words used by Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, and Tacitus. On the other hand, space has been saved by the omission of all detailed references to books and passages, only the name of the writer being indicated as authority for each word or phrase; and by limiting the illustrative citations to those which are typical or peculiarly instructive.

Review:

"The only authoritative dictionary of Classical Latin available in abridged form; the only Latin dictionary suitable for undergraduates at all levels; and the only one that will not lead students astray with false translations because it gives precise contexts."--John A. Stevens, East Carolina University