Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway
(1864 1933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later
Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to
shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman
institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of
Rome's neighbours. The second volume provides an outline of the
grammar of the Italic dialects, the surviving remains of which were
collected in the first volume. There are six dialect alphabets
given, followed by a sketch of their accidence and syntax. The
first appendix discusses the Oscan measures of the mensa ponderaria
at Pompeii; a second gives alien, doubtful or spurious
inscriptions. The bulk of the volume consists of indexes of
geographical and personal names, a glossary of the dialect words,
and an index of Latin words used in the work.
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