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A School Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities abridged from the larger dictionary. New York: Harper & Brothers. Smith, William (1874). A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on Wood from Ancient Originals illustrative of the industrial arts and social life of the Greeks and Romans. New York: D Appleton & Co.
The concept of Old Latin (Prisca Latinitas) is as old as the concept of Classical Latin – both labels date to at least as early as the late Roman Republic.In that period Cicero, along with others, noted that the language he used every day, presumably upper-class city Latin, included lexical items and phrases that were heirlooms from a previous time, which he called verborum vetustas prisca ...
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...
Perseus Digital Library; Location: Tufts University: Scope: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Arabic Materials, Germanic Materials, 19th-century America, Early modern English literature, Richmond Times Dispatch and Humanist and Renaissance Italian Poetry in Latin
Much of the value of the Dictionary consists not only in the depth and detail of the individual articles, but in the copious and specific citations to individual Greek and Roman writers, as well as modern scholarship from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements among the ...
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome is a reference work written by Samuel Ball Platner (1863–1921). The first edition was published in 1904; [ 1 ] the second edition ('revised and enlarged') was published in 1911 (both: Allyn and Bacon, Boston).
Oxford Latin Dictionary Author P. G. W. Glare Language English Publisher Oxford University Press Publication date 1968 to 1982; reprinted with corrections 1996; 2nd edition 2012 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 2,400 ISBN 978-0-19-958031-6 Dewey Decimal 473/.21 19 LC Class PA2365.E5 O9 2012 The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon ...
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (ODLA) is the first comprehensive, multi-disciplinary reference work covering culture, history, religion, and life in Late Antiquity. This was the period in Europe , the Mediterranean , and the Near East from about AD 250 to 750.