Colloquial and Literary LatinEleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud What is colloquial Latin? What can we learn about it from Roman literature, and how does an understanding of colloquial Latin enhance our appreciation of literature? This book sets out to answer such questions, beginning with examinations of how the term 'colloquial' has been used by linguists and by classicists (and how its Latin equivalents were used by the Romans) and continuing with exciting new research on colloquial language in a wide range of Latin authors. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the relevant area, and the material presented includes new editions of several texts. The Introduction presents the first account in English of developments in the study of colloquial Latin over the last century, and throughout the book findings are presented in clear, lucid, and jargon-free language, making a major scholarly debate accessible to a broad range of students and non-specialists. |
Contents
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Idioms and literariness in classical literary criticism | 42 |
Preliminary conclusions | 65 |
Possessive pronouns in Plautus | 71 |
Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial | 100 |
Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy | 127 |
The fragments of Catos Origines | 154 |
divine discourse in Virgils Aeneid | 266 |
Petronius linguistic resources | 281 |
Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae | 292 |
Colloquial Latin in Martials epigrams | 318 |
Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius | 331 |
Forerunners of Romance mente adverbs in Latin prose | 339 |
the influence of sources on | 357 |
The tale of Frodeberts tail | 376 |
Hyperbaton and register in Cicero | 163 |
Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus | 186 |
Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius | 203 |
style grammar and philosophy | 229 |
The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution | 243 |
the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace | 255 |
Colloquial Latin in the Insular Latin scholastic colloquia? | 406 |
Conversations in Bedes Historia Ecclesiastica | 419 |
References | 441 |
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Common terms and phrases
accusative Adams adjective adverbial Aeneid atque attested Caelius Caesar Cato Catullus Cavarzere Chahoud characterisation Cicero Cicero’s letters classical clause colloquial colloquial features colloquial language colloquial Latin comedy context conversational language D. R. Shackleton Bailey dative defined definition difficult eius enim Ennius everyday example expression figures find first fit Frod Frodebert Gellius genitive genres Getica Greek greeting hist Hofmann Hofmann–Ricottilli Horace hyperbaton Importunus infinitive influence instances Jordanes L¨ofstedt lexical linguistic literary Livy Lucretius Martial mihi modifier noun phrase occurs orat Ovid Pacuvius parataxis parenthesis passage Petronius Plautus poetic poetry possessive pronouns prose quae quam quid Quintilian quod reference reflect reflexive rhetorical Roman Sallust salve sentence sermo Shackleton Bailey sibi sociolect speaker specific speech spoken language Statius style stylistic suus sibi syntactic Terence term texts tibi TLL s.v. trag tragedy usage verb Virgil vulgar Walstra word order