In Other Words

The Latin phrases used in The Enlightened Series come directly from the Vulgate, a fourth-century translation of the Bible. It was revised in 1592 and is still in use today as the official Roman Catholic version of the Latin Bible. Unless otherwise specified, all the rest comes from a collection of eighteenth-century slang as defined by A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Second Edition. It was first published in London in 1788, is available online, and is really fun to flip through. It is interesting to see what phrases are still in use today and the many that are not. It is also a fantastic resource if you are in need of another good word for whore. Just beware - according to the Dictionary, there are multiple, different kinds of whores. 

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