Cambridge Latin Course/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Accidental Innuendo: In spades, especially if you're learning Latin and tend to make mistakes translating it, many lines can come out having a completely different meaning to what they are meant to. Even some of the properly translated lines tend towards this.

Domicilia est anus.

  • Complete Monster: Salvius. Within the first stage of the second book, he's killed four slaves - one for being sick, one for trying to avenge his father (that Salvius killed), and the two guards for "being in on the conspiracy". Then he got worse.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Clemens befriends a cat that lives in the Temple of Isis in Alexandria. Said cat attacks the head of the local mafia.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Grumio. The drunk, dishonest, ladies' man of a cook who went as far as impersonating a Roman citizen. The course is used in a lot of high schools.
  • Magnificent Bastard - Salvius
  • Memetic Sex God: ancillae Grumionem delectant. [1]
  • Tear Jerker: Cerberus the dog standing guard beside Caecilius' corpse while Vesuvius erupts and buries Pompeii.
  1. the slave girls please Grumio...all the time