As the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax. In this book, Ivy Livingston frames an examination of Livius' Latin in the form of a commentary.

Virtually all recent major work on Livius Andronicus has focused on assessing his artistic merits and his skills as a translator of Homer. But, as the oldest literary Latin preserved in any quantity, the language of Livius shows many features of linguistic interest and raises intriguing questions of phonolgy, morphology and syntax. In this book, Ivy Livingston frames an examination of Livius' Latin in the form of a commentary. Although Livius provides the starting-point of each comment, his language is sufficiently similar to his nearest successors - such as Naevius or Ennius - that many of the discussions do not also end with Livius, but explore wider-ranging problems of Latin and of Indo-European linguistics.

This volume includes: Daniel Koelligen, " , The Watchdog"; Richard L. Phillips, "Invisibility and Sight in Homer: Some Aspects of A. S. Pease Reconsidered"; Antonio Tibiletti, "Pondering Pindaric Superlatives in Context"; Matthew Hiscock, " : A 'Mot Fort' in the Discourse of Classical Athens"; James T. Clark, "Off-Stage Cries? The Performance of Sophocles' Philoctetes 201-218, Trachiniae 863-870, and Euripides' Electra 747-760"; Giuseppe Pezzini, "Terence and the Speculum Vitae: 'Realism' and (Roman) Comedy"; Neil O'Sullivan, "Quotations from Epicurean Philosophy and Greek Tragedy in Three Letters of Cicero"; Ernesto Paparazzo, "A Study of Varro's Account of Roman Civil Theology in the Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum and Its Reception by Augustine and Modern Readers"; Joseph P. Dexter and Pramit Chaudhuri, "Dardanio Anchisae: Hiatus, Homer, and Intermetricality in the Aeneid"; Michael A. Tueller, "Dido the Author: Epigram and the Aeneid"; Benjamin Victor, Nancy Duval, and Isabelle Chouinard, "Subordinating si and ni in Virgil: Some Characteristic Uses, with Remarks on Aeneid 6.882-883"; Richard Gaskin, "On Being Pessimistic about the End of the Aeneid"; Gregory R. Mellen, "Num Delenda est Karthago? Metrical Wordplay and the Text of Horace Odes 4.8"; Kyle Gervais, "Dominoque legere superstes? Epic and Empire at the End of the Thebaid"; D. Clint Burnett, "Temple Sharing and Throne Sharing: A Reconsideration of and in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods"; Charles H. Cosgrove, "Semi-Lyrical Reading of Greek Poetry in Late Antiquity"; Byron MacDougall, "Better Recognize: Anagnorisis in Gregory of Nazianzus's First Invective against Julian"; Alan Cameron, "Jerome and the Historia Augusta"; Jessica H. Clark, "Adfirmare and Appeals to Authority in Servius Danielis"; and Jarrett T. Welsh, "Nonius Marcellus and the Source Called 'Gloss. i.'"