Aspects of the Language of Latin PoetryRoland Mayer, James Noel Adams Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g. alliteration, lexical and morphological archaism or grecism, and of course metaphor and word-order; and there were also less obvious resources in the technical vocabularies of law, philosophy, and medicine. The essays in this volume show how the poets in the classical period combined these elements, and so created a poetic medium that could comprehend satire, invective, erotic elegy, drama, lyric, and the grandest heroic epics. These wide-ranging studies will be essential reading for all students of Latin. |
Contents
Poetic Diction Poetic Discourse and the Poetic Register | 21 |
Nominative Personal Pronouns and Some Patterns of Speech | 97 |
The Word Order of Horaces Odes | 135 |
Grecism | 157 |
The Latin | 183 |
Lucretius Use and Avoidance of Greek | 227 |
Archaism and Innovation in Latin Poetic Syntax | 249 |
Tentative Considerations on Shifting Objects | 269 |
Stylistic Registers in Juvenal | 311 |
The Arrangement and the Language of Catullus socalled polymetra | 335 |
This | 337 |
Tibullus and the Language of Latin Elegy | 377 |
Anomaly Innovation and Genre in Ovid | 399 |
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Its Function | 289 |
Common terms and phrases
Adams adjective Aeneid alliteration archaic archaism atque attested Augustan Augustan poetry Catull Catullus Celsus cent Cicero classical clause colloquial comedy context contrast diction discussion early Latin effect elegy emphatic Ennius epic epigrams examples expression figure genitive genres Graeca grecism Greek Greek words haec Homer Horace Horace's hyperbaton instance item 11 Jocelyn Juvenal Juvenal's language Latin language Latin poetry lexical linguistic literary Livy Lucan Lucilius Lucretius lyric metaphor metrical mihi neque noun occurs Odes ordinary Ovid parody passage pattern Phalaecian epigrams phrase Plaut poem poetic register poets pronoun Prop Propertius prosaic prose quae quid Quintilian quod reference remis rhetorical Roman satire Saturae seems semantic sense sentence Servius speech stylistic syntactical syntax technical term tibi Tibullus tone usage Varro verb verse Virg Virgil vocabulary Vulgar Latin word order writing