Remains of Old Latin, Volume IV, Archaic Inscriptions (Loeb Classical Library No. 359)

Warmington, Eric Herbert

ISBN 10: 0674993969 / ISBN 13: 9780674993969

Published by Harvard University Press, 1940

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remains of Old Latin, Volume IV, Archaic Inscriptions (Loeb Classical Library No. 359)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1940
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674993969
• ISBN 13: 9780674993969
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 2.8W x 10.8H x 16.2D centimeters 2.8 centimeters width by 10.8 centimeters height by 16.2 centimeters depth

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Synopsis

Physical graffiti.

This edition of early Latin writings is in four volumes. The first three contain the extant work of seven poets and surviving portions of the Twelve Tables of Roman law. The fourth volume contains inscriptions on various materials (including coins), all written before 79 BC.

Volume I. Q. Ennius (239–169) of Rudiae (Rugge), author of a great epic (Annales), tragedies and other plays, and satire and other works; Caecilius Statius (ca. 220–ca. 166), a Celt probably of Mediolanum (Milano) in N. Italy, author of comedies.

Volume II. L. Livius Andronicus (ca. 284–204) of Tarentum (Taranto), author of tragedies, comedies, a translation and paraphrase of Homer’s Odyssey, and hymns; Cn. Naevius (ca. 270–ca. 200), probably of Rome, author of an epic on the 1st Punic War, comedies, tragedies, and historical plays; M. Pacuvius (ca. 220–ca. 131) of Brundisium (Brindisi), a painter and later an author of tragedies, a historical play and satire; L. Accius (170–ca. 85) of Pisaurum (Pisaro), author of tragedies, historical plays, stage history and practice, and some other works; fragments of tragedies by authors unnamed.

Volume III. C. Lucilius (180?–102/1) of Suessa Aurunca (Sessa), writer of satire; The Twelve Tables of Roman law, traditionally of 451–450.

Volume IV. Archaic Inscriptions: Epitaphs, dedicatory and honorary inscriptions, inscriptions on and concerning public works, on movable articles, on coins; laws and other documents.

About the Author

E. H. Warmington was Professor of Classics at Birkbeck College, London, and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library (1937–1974).