The Illustrated Latin-English Parallel Text (Latin Edition)

Lavishly illustrated in full color, this textbook consists of three parts. The opening part, Orbis Pictus, based on Medieval text of Comenius, presents vocabulary from many ways of life, has section on anatomy, and no grammar, as the rest of the book, which wants to teach you how to read Latin, not how to speak it. The second part of the book, the Magic Arts, contains nine portals which must be passed to obtain working knowledge of Latin. It contains songs, Goliardic poetry, excerpts from Petronius, Reginadelti, Boethius, Pliny, and others. The third part, Sapientia, contains ancient sayings, quotes from Roman authors, and inscriptions discovered in Pompeii tavern, where a visitor is making fun from Caesar's veni, vidi, vici, scribbling on the wall of a tavern veni, vidi, futui. If you don't know what futui means, you should definitely buy this book.