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An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900 - Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary (Hardcover)
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An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC-AD 900 - Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary (Hardcover)
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This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD
900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not
intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university
courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more
than a millennium, with almost every century represented.
Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas
this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and
idiosyncrasies of specific passages. 'Informal' texts, particularly
if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better
than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are
recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well
represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early
medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries
identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long
duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and
development of Latin.
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