The Immediate Mouth of Cicero in His Letters, consists of two books. An audiobook presents the integral Latin and English texts of 51 letters Cicero wrote to family and close associates all recited by Reginald Foster. A printed book presents the teaching method of Reginald exemplified by 160 imagined dialogues between a teacher and students working with original thoughts of Cicero to learn the Latin language from the first encounter. This companion volume to The Bones' Meats Abundant analyses how Cicero expressed himself in the Latin of these same 51 letters, with cross references to fuller explanations in The Mere Bones of Latin. Audio book LISTEN to Cicero writing to family and close associates recited by Reginald Foster who embodies that living voice of the master Latinist. READ along while listening and RECITE together with the audio. CONSULT the English text of our translations. Printed book LEARN from the first encounter with the Latin language by reading from Cicero's letters and COMPLETE your understanding through regular readings. Teach the Latin language using excerpts from Cicero's letters from the first day. Understand how Reginald taught the Latin language using solid, unmodified, original Latin texts. Learn to teach from Reginald.

Beginners and experts alike will find a complete immersion into the workings and nature of the Latin language embodied in the incomparable, insuperable epistles of the great Marcus Tullius Cicero, something which other commentators pass over or scorn. This second volume puts “meat on the bones” of the Latin language presented in the first volume: Ossa Latinitatis Sola: The Mere Bones of Latin. The personal letters of Cicero provide ample meat to enflesh the skeletal structure of the language, thus the title: Ossium Carnes Multae: The Bones’ Meats Abundant from the epistles of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Part 1 presents 51 complete letters from the Tyrell-Purser text. Facing each letter is an image of its oldest manuscript edition as early as the ninth century, which are preserved and guarded in the Medicea Laurentiana library in Florence, Italy, witnessing to the human hand preserving this monument of world heritage for over two millennia. Part 2 follows with a most careful rendition into English of Tully’s living, telephone-like Latin discourse. A thorough treatment and explanation of noteworthy elements of his natural talk follows with numerous references to the Encounters in Volume I. All this has students, learners, teachers, experts of the Latin language in mind and is humbly designed to deepen the understanding and appreciation of specific expressions and peculiarities of Cicero’s language itself. Part 3 provides 500 sentences consisting of from 1 to 5 words and suited for the beginnings or continuation of Latin conversations: 200 declarations, 100 questions, 100 exclamations, 100 injunctions drawn from his letters. The volume is amply indexed. All this has been done to enhance the study and use of Latin, to popularize Cicero’s correspondence, to prepare the reader for Volume III which will deal again with the letters and their usefulness for Latin conversation.