On the Latin language /

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Author / Creator:	Varro, Marcus Terentius, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English Latin
Series:	Loeb Classical Library ; 333-334 Loeb Classical Library ; 333-334.
Subject:	Latin language -- Grammar -- Early works to 1500. Latin language Latin language -- Grammar Linguistics Roman law Rome (Empire)
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10301309

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Other authors / contributors:	Kent, Roland G. (Roland Grubb), 1877-1952, translator.
ISBN:	9780674993679 9780674993686
Notes:	Includes index. Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Of more than seventy works by Varro (116-27 BCE) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts, and containing much of very great value to the study of the Latin language. Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library. Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in Loeb number 283) and part of his monumental achievement De Lingua Latina, On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts. Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts: etymology of Latin words (books 1-7); their inflexions and other changes (books 8-13); and syntax (books 14-25). Of the whole work survive (somewhat imperfectly) books 5 to 10. These are from the section (books 4-6) which applied etymology to words of time and place and to poetic expressions; the section (books 7-9) on analogy as it occurs in word formation; and the section (books 10-12) which applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that is of very great value to the study of the Latin language. The Loeb Classical Library edition of On the Latin Language is in two volumes.
Other form:	Print version: Varro, Marcus Terentius. On the Latin language. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1938 9780674993679(v.1) 9780674993686(v.2)

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Summary:	Ancient Roman word lore. <br> <br> Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library.<br> <br> Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in LCL 283) and part of his monumental achievement De Lingua Latina ( On the Latin Language ), a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts. Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts: etymology of Latin words (Books 1-7); their inflections and other changes (Books 8-13); and syntax (Books 14-25). Of the whole work survive (somewhat imperfectly) Books 5-10. These are from the section (Books 4-6) that applied etymology to words of time and place and to poetic expressions; the section (Books 7-9) on analogy as it occurs in word formation; and the section (Books 10-12) that applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that is of very great value to the study of the Latin language.<br> <br> The Loeb Classical Library edition of On the Latin Language is in two volumes.
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9780674993679 9780674993686