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The Italic dialects

edited with a grammar and glossary [by] R.S. Conway

(Cambridge library collection)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : At the University Press, 1897

"This digitally printed version 2013"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9781108061155

Description

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of Rome's neighbours. The work is laid out in geographical order, beginning with Southern Oscan in Sicily and moving north through Volscian and Latinian to conclude with Umbrian and Picenum, so that the influence of one dialect on its neighbours can be traced. This first volume collects all the surviving remains of these minor Italic dialects, gleaned primarily from epigraphic sources (such as Oscan inscriptions at Pompeii and elsewhere), but also from the evidence of coins, glosses and other references in later writers, and geographical and proper names from the dialect areas.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • List of the chief books of reference
  • Signs and Abbreviations
  • Part I. The Records of the Dialects: 1. Southern Oscan
  • 2. Central Oscan
  • 3. Northern Oscan
  • 4. Volscian
  • 5. Latinian
  • 6. Umbrian
  • 7. Picenum.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9781108061162

Description

Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (1864-1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of Rome's neighbours. The second volume provides an outline of the grammar of the Italic dialects, the surviving remains of which were collected in the first volume. There are six dialect alphabets given, followed by a sketch of their accidence and syntax. The first appendix discusses the Oscan measures of the mensa ponderaria at Pompeii; a second gives alien, doubtful or spurious inscriptions. The bulk of the volume consists of indexes of geographical and personal names, a glossary of the dialect words, and an index of Latin words used in the work.

Table of Contents

  • Part II. An Outline of the Grammar of the Italic Dialects: 1. The alphabets
  • 2. Accidence of the Osco-Umbrian dialects
  • 3. Notes on the syntax of the dialect inscriptions
  • Appendix
  • Indices.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB14405012
  • ISBN
    • 9781108061155
    • 9781108061162
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    2 v.
  • Size
    23 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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