Frederic M. Wheelock > Quotes

“Students who take Latin are more proficient and earn higher scores on the verbal SAT exam. The business world has long recognized the importance of a rich vocabulary and rates it high as evidence of executive potential and success. Understanding the etymological history of a word gives the user vividness, color, punch, and precision. It also seems that the clearer and more numerous our verbal images, the greater our intellectual power. Wheelock’s Latin is profuse with the etymological study of English and vocabulary enrichment. Our own experiences have shown that students will not only remember vocabulary words longer and better when they understand their etymologies, but also will use them with a sharper sense of meaning and nuance.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin

“Quidquid est enim quod deceat, id tum apparet cum antegressa est honestas.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros, inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset “Sic deinde quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea!” interfectum.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Ita fit ut ratio praesit, appetitus obtemperet.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Hoc tibi iuventus Romana indicimus bellum.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Sic multa, quae honesta natura videntur esse, temporibus fiunt non honesta: facere promissa, stare conventis, reddere deposita, commutata utilitate, fiunt non honesta.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Tu vero abi,” inquit, “in te magis quam in me hostilia ausus. Iuberem macte virtute esse, si pro mea patriaista virtus staret: nunc iure belli liberum te intactum inviolatumque 250 hinc dimitto.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin Reader: Selections from Latin Literature

“Inexorably accurate translation from Latin provides a training in observation, analysis, judgment, evaluation, and a sense of linguistic form, clarity, and beauty which is excellent training in the shaping of one’s own English expression,” asserted Frederic Wheelock.”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin

“Salvē (“Greetings!”), and WELCOME to the study of classical Latin, or what I affectionately call “The Mother Tongue”!”
― Frederic M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin