AS the iuvenis voluptarius might say, put on your brevissimae bracae femineae and let's go to the taberna nocturna and drink some vinum rubrum Burdigalense. The Vatican has helpfully produced a new ...

MONTEREY PARK >> After four hours and about 40 speakers, the City Council on Wednesday unanimously voted to allow a controversial “modern Latin alphabet” ordinance to die during its second reading.

These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...