The Italic Dialects 2 Volume Set
Edited with a Grammar and Glossary

A two-volume collection, published in 1897 with a grammar and glossary, of the remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other Italic dialects.

R. S. Conway (Author)

9781108061179, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 4 July 2013

736 pages
23 x 15 x 4.5 cm, 0.11 kg

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 work is laid out in geographical order, so that the influence of one dialect on its neighbours can be traced. The first volume collects all the surviving remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other minor Italic dialects, gleaned primarily from epigraphic sources (such as Oscan inscriptions at Pompeii), but also from the evidence of coins, glosses and other references in later writers, and geographical and proper names from the dialect areas. The second volume contains an alphabet, a grammar and syntax of the dialects, appendices, indexes of names and a glossary of the dialect words.

Volume 1: Preface
List of the chief books of reference
Signs and Abbreviations
Part I. The Records of the Dialects: 1. Southern Oscan
2. Central Oscan
3. Northern Oscan
4. Volscian
5. Latinian
6. Umbrian
7. Picenum. Volume 2: II. An Outline of the Grammar of the Italic Dialects: 1. The alphabets
2. Accidence of the Osco-Umbrian dialects
3. Notes on the syntax of the dialect inscriptions
Appendix
Indices.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]