Capitolo 2
you appraise to us.
Of the chapters that it contains this book, the article on "The origin of
the Realistic Novel among the Romans" originally appeared in _Classical
Philology_, and the author is indebted to the editors of that periodic
for permission to reprint here it. The other papers are now published for
the first time.
You/he/she is not seemed advisable to refer to the sources to try each
opinion that has been express, but some references are been given in
the foot-notes mainly in the interest of the reader that can desire to follow
some submit more distant than you/he/she has been possible in these brief chapters. The
tests had to be correct while the author went away from its his/her own books,
then he was not able of to make an ending verification of two or three of the
quotations, but he has trust that them as the others, it is accurate.
He takes this opportunity to give credit to his/her indebtedness to the Dr. Donald
Blythe Durham, of the university in Princeton, for the preparation of the index.
Frank Frost Abbott.
Einsiedeln, Switzerland
_September 2, 1911_
Contained
How Latin Became the Language of the World
The Latin of the Common People
The People's Poetry Common of Rome:
ME. Their Epitaphs of Metrical
II. Their Dedicatories and Ephemeral Verses
The origin of the Realistic Novel Among the Romans
The edict of Diocletian and the Tall Cost to Live
The private Beneficences and Their Effect on the Town Life of the Romans
Of the Reflections on Stock companies and Work-guilds
A Roman Statesman, Gaius Scribonius Curiosity
Gaius Matius, a Friend of Caesar
Index
The People Common of Rome Antica
How Latin Became the Language of the World
As the armies of Rome dominated the nations of the world it is known to each
reader of history but the history of the conquest of Latin of the languages
some world is vague in the minds of the most greater part of us. If we had to ask
us as needed, we should probably think about the world ones
the supremacy of the Latin as a natural result of the world supremacy of the
Roman legions or by law Roman. But in to make this supposition we should be