A Characterization of the Roman Poetic OnomasticonA descriptive essay on the principal patterns within each section of the Roman onomastic structure, with particular attention devoted to oddities, curios, and exceptions. In covering phonological variations, morphology, word formation, syntax, semantics, and provenience of names, the author shows that the irregularities and unpredictable variants are too numerous and complex to be explained away by specious "rules." |
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Aeneid Alba Longa archaic Baiae Caesar Catullus Celtic Chapter classical Clodia clusters comic common consonant DCS-L DCS-P declension derivatives doublets element Ennius ēnus epic epithets Etruscan ĕus examples feminine formation forms Fortuna FPLA FPLB Gaulish gender Germanicus Greek Greek names heroes historical Hofmann-Szantyr Horace Iberian Illyrian inscriptions Italic Italicus Juvenal languages Latium Lucan LUCIL Lucilius Lucretius macronyms Martial masculine morpheme mythic Names in Roman neuter Note nouns occur onomastic Oscan Ovid perhaps personal names personifications Petronius phonemes phonological phrasal names Pitho place names Plautus plural poetic onomasticon poetry Porta PROP proper adjectives proper names prose prosody Punic Quintus rare rivers Roman poets Roman Verse Satires semantic Sicily Silius Silius Italicus singular Statius stem suffix Swanson Terence tmesis toponyms town variation Vergil vocabulary vowel Vulgar Latin zero-change