📚 Latin

The language that outlived its nation: church, law and science kept it alive long after the empire.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject latin language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Q. Horatii Flacci opera	Horace	1498	248
	Colloquia	Desiderius Erasmus	1519	132
	Vitae excellentium imperatorum	Cornelius Nepos	1594	102
	Phormio	Publius Terentius Afer	1860	56
	Catullus	Gaius Valerius Catullus	1554	55
	Menaechmi	Titus Maccius Plautus	1840	41
	Epistulae morales ad Lucilium	Seneca the Younger	1611	38
	Horace	Horace	1652	38
	Latin grammar	Basil L. Gildersleeve	1867	25
	A grammar of the Latin language for the use of schools and colleges	Ethan Allen Andrews	1836	24
	A short introduction to the Latin tongue	Cheever, Ezekiel	1709	21
	Latin for Americans	B. L. Ullman	1941	19
	A Latin dictionary	Ethan Allen Andrews	1879	18
	The rudiments of the Latin tongue	Thomas Ruddiman	1714	16
	A grammar of the Latin language	E. A. Andrews	1836	16
	The principles of Latin grammar	Peter Bullions	1845	16
	Lily's rules construed	William Lily	1712	15
	A Latin grammar for schools and colleges	Albert Harkness	1864	15
	Adam's Latin grammar	Alexander Adam	1824	14
	Lingua Latina	Hans H. Ørberg	1982	13
	Botanical Latin	William T. Stearn	1966	12
	Workbook for Wheelock's Latin Grammar	Paul T. Comeau	1979	12
	Wheelock's Latin	Frederic M. Wheelock	1995	12
	Latin, an introductory course based on ancient authors	Frederic M. Wheelock	1960	11
	Oxford Latin Course	Maurice George Balme	1987	11
	Applied mathematics	J. David Logan	1987	10
	An Introduction To Ecclesiastical Latin	H. P. V. Nunn	1922	9
	On the Latin language	Marcus Terentius Varro	1938	9
	First year Latin	Charles Jenney	1970	9
	Cassell's Latin Dictionary	D. P. Simpson	1977	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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