A History of Roman Literature From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius

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litem addicito. Si amb

tempesta

mvirs, that the most learned Romans could scarcely understand it. We should infer from this that the language of the Twelve Tables, from being continually quoted to meet the exigencies of public life, was unconsciously moulded into a form intelligible to educated men; an

exists is a restoration of the time of Claudius. It has, however, been somewhat carelessly done, for several modernisms have crept into the language. But these are not sufficient to disprove its cla

dioned exemet, leciones

luci palam post dies no

atus ef

uenandod cepet. Enque

primos ceset, copiasque

ss

mque eis navebous clas

iensis, praesented Hani

lo

vicet. Vique navis cepet

o sept

triresmosque naveis x

rs

DCC. arcentom captom pr

om, aes CCCI[Symbols] (p

poplom donavet primosqu

ge

in tri

hand: on the other, praeda where we should expect pr

years earlier than the Columna Rostrata, and is the earliest original Roman philological antiquity of assignable date which we possess. B

e, quoiús formá vírtu | teí parísuma fúit, [19] consól censór aídílis | queí fuít ap

pitaph graven, refers to the son of Barbatus. Lik

om Scípióne. | Fíliós Barbáti consól censór aidílis | híc fuét apúd vos hec cépi

ly painted, and not engraven till a later period, when, as in the case of the Columna Rostrata, som

, Lucium Scipionem. Filius (erat) Barbati, Consul, Censor. Aedilis hic fuit apud vos.

n P. Corn. Scipio, pro

opted father of S

túsque | glória átque ingénium: quibús sei in lónga lícui | sét tíbi útier víta facilé factís superásses

ed here is that of L. Corn.

vitá defécit | nón honós honóre. Is híc sitús, qui núnquam | víctus ást virtúteí. Ann

uity in the omission of the case- ending m, in the spellings gesistei, quom ( = cum. prep.) in the old long quantities omnia fama facile and the unique quairatis. There are no les

Teriolo, in Calabria, in 1640, is quite in its original state. It is easily intelligible, and except in orthography, scarcely differs from c

) Postumius L. f. cos se