Author: Robert William Browne
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Category : Latin literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 912

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 914

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1846

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Author: John Yardley
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Around 200AD, Marcus Junianus Justinus produced an abridged or 'epitomized' version of the Philippic Histories of the Augustan historian Pompeius Trogus. In doing so, he omitted all he did not find either intrinsically interesting or of use for historical examples. Over the centuries that followed, the abridgement eclipsed the original work in popularity, to the extent that Trogus' original work vanished and only Justin's version survived. In this investigation of the language of the Epitome, the first in almost a century, J.C. Yardley examines the work to establish how much of the text belongs to Trogus, and how much to Justin. His study compares words and expressions used in the Epitome with the usage of other Roman authors, and establishes areas where diction is similar to Augustan-era Latin and less in use in Justin's time. Yardley's extensive analysis reveals that there is more of Justin in the work than is often supposed, which may have implications for the historical credibility of the document. Yardley also demonstrates how much Trogus was influenced by his contemporary Livy as well as other Roman authors such as Sallust and Caesar, and how the Epitome reveals the influence of Roman poetry, especially the work of Virgil.

Author: Claudius Rutilius Namatianus
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Languages : la
Pages : 264

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Author: William Walter Merry
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: William Young Sellar
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Category : Latin poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Author: J. N. Adams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316673251
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1053

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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. 'Informal' texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and development of Latin.