Remains of old Latin /
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Edition: | revised |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014. |
Description: | 1 online resource : halftones, line illustrations |
Language: | English Latin |
Series: | Loeb Classical Library ; 294, 314, 329, 359 Loeb Classical Library ; 294, 314, 329, 359. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10301299 |
Other title: | Fragmentary Republican Latin. |
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Other authors / contributors: | Accius, Lucius, author. Andronicus, Livius, author. Caecilius, Calactinus, author. Ennius, Quintus, author. Lucilius, Gaius, approximately 180 B.C.-approximately 102 B.C., author. Naevius, Gnaeus, approximately 270 B.C.-approximately 200 B.C., author. Pacuvius, Marcus, author. Warmington, E. H. (Eric Herbert), 1898-1987, translator. |
ISBN: | 9780674993242 9780674993471 9780674993631 9780674993969 |
Digital file characteristics: | text file |
Notes: | Remains of Old Latin will be gradually superseded by Fragmentary Republican Latin beginning in 2018. Includes index. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages. Description based on print version record. |
Summary: | Extant early Latin writings from the seventh or sixth to the first century BCE include epic, drama, satire, translation and paraphrase, hymns, stage history and practice, and other works by Ennius, Caecilius, Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Pacuvius, Accius, Lucilius, and other anonymous authors; the Twelve Tables of Roman law; archaic inscriptions. The Loeb edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials (including coins), all written before 79 BCE. Volume I. Q. Ennius (239-169) of Rudiae (Rugge), author of a great epic (Annales), tragedies and other plays, and satire and other works; Caecilius Statius (ca. 220-ca. 166), a Celt probably of Mediolanum (Milano) in N. Italy, author of comedies. Volume II. L. Livius Andronicus (ca. 284-204) of Tarentum (Taranto), author of tragedies, comedies, a translation and paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey, and hymns; Cn. Naevius (ca. 270-ca. 200), probably of Rome, author of an epic on the 1st Punic War, comedies, tragedies, and historical plays; M. Pacuvius (ca. 220-ca. 131) of Brundisium (Brindisi), a painter and later an author of tragedies, a historical play and satire; L. Accius (170-ca. 85) of Pisaurum (Pisaro), author of tragedies, historical plays, stage history and practice, and some other works; fragments of tragedies by authors unnamed. Volume III. C. Lucilius (180?-102/1) of Suessa Aurunca (Sessa), writer of satire; The Twelve Tables of Roman law, traditionally of 451-450. Volume IV. Archaic Inscriptions: Epitaphs, dedicatory and honorary inscriptions, inscriptions on and concerning public works, on movable articles, on coins; laws and other documents. |
Other form: | Print version: Remains of old Latin. Rev. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1935 9780674993242(v.1) 9780674993471(v.2) 9780674993631(v.3) 9780674993969(v.4) |
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