Early Latin Verse


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Early Latin Verse


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Early Latin Verse


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Early Latin Verse (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Early Latin Verse The removal of the lava and cinders from Pompeii discovered to us a town of the Early Empire. We saw the very room in which a Roman had lived. Would that we could hear him speak! We know his language - the significance of each word, the sound of each letter. But words and letters are the dry bones of a language. It is the tone of utterance that breathes life into them. And that is what this volume claims to discover - Plautus', Terence's (and presumably Cicero's) intonation of the sentence. To disclose it the rubbish of half a century had to be cleared away. Klotz's large book on Early Latin Verse gathered up all the wisdom and - alas! - much of the folly of Ritschl's time. And no more egregious folly than the 'metrical' theory of the Brevis Brevians, that Plautus scanned 'apud me' when the metrical ictus happened to fall on ap-, 'ad Illos' when the metrical ictus happened not to fall on ad. Clear that rubbish away, and you see that 'apud me', 'ad Illos' go with emphasis on the pronoun, while in 'apud me', 'ad illos' the pronoun is a sentence-enclitic. This was pointed out many years ago in a magazine-article (indeed Ritschl had given a hint of the same kind). But on Klotz's layer of rubbish (itself embedded on C.F. Muller's Early Latin Prosody, 1869) the volumes of the Teubner edition have been superimposed, keeping it firmly in its place. Satan must cast out Satan. The word 'rubbish' is not too strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




EARLY LATIN VERSE


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Early Latin Verse


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Cicero and the Early Latin Poets


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The writings of Cicero contain hundreds of quotations of Latin poetry. This book examines his citations of Latin poets writing in diverse poetic genres and demonstrates the importance of poetry as an ethical, historical, and linguistic resource in the late Roman Republic. Hannah Čulík-Baird studies Cicero's use of poetry in his letters, speeches, and philosophical works, contextualizing his practice within the broader intellectual trends of contemporary Rome. Cicero's quotations of the 'classic' Latin poets, such as Ennius, Pacuvius, Accius, and Lucilius, are responsible for preserving the most significant fragments of verse from the second century BCE. The book also therefore examines the process of fragmentation in classical antiquity, with particular attention to the relationship between quotation and fragmentation. The Appendices collect perceptible instances of poetic citation (Greek as well as Latin) in the Ciceronian corpus.




Early Latin Verse - Primary Source Edition


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Early Latin


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This is the most detailed and comprehensive study to date of early Latin language, literary and non-literary, featuring twenty-nine chapters by an international team of scholars. 'Early Latin' is interpreted liberally as extending from the period of early inscriptions through to the first quarter of the first century BC. Classical Latin features significantly in the volume, although in a restricted sense. In the classical period there were writers who imitated the Latin of an earlier age, and there were also interpreters of early Latin. Later authors and views on early Latin language are also examined as some of these are relevant to the establishment of the text of earlier writers. A major aim of the book is to define linguistic features of different literary genres, and to address problems such as the limits of periodisation and the definition of the very concept of 'early Latin'.