The Italic Dialects
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)

9781108061155, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2013

490 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.71 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, beginning with Southern Oscan in Sicily and moving north through Volscian and Latinian to conclude with Umbrian and Picenum, so that the influence of one dialect on its neighbours can be traced. This first volume collects all the surviving remains of these minor Italic dialects, gleaned primarily from epigraphic sources (such as Oscan inscriptions at Pompeii and elsewhere), but also from the evidence of coins, glosses and other references in later writers, and geographical and proper names from the dialect areas.

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.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]