Capitolo 21
Latinist took part in the study of Plautus and a Romantic philologist
working direct upward toward the Latin. The Latin researcher was Ritschl that showed
what the deviations from the formal standard which finds in Plautus
it is not anomalies or errors but champions of colloquial Latin that it is able
is traced down in the later period. The Romantic philologist was Diez,
who found those certain forms and words, especially those from the
dictionary of life of every-day that is common to very of the Novel
languages, won't be found in Latin and serious literature to everybody, but
only happens in those compositions as comedy, satire or the realistic one
makes the court to that the discourse of the reflects to equip of every-day. This discovery
it did him/it clarify that the Romantic languages are reported to the Latin people, not to
the literary Latin. It is sixty years since the study of the vulgar Latin has put
on a scientific base from the investigations of these two men, and during
that period the Latinist and the Romantic philologist are united to hands in
extending our knowledge of him. From the Latin side a great impetus was
gives to the job from the foundation in 1884 of the _Archiv fuer of Woelfflin
lateinische the und of Lexikographie Grammatik_. This periodical, as it is well
known, it was understood to prepare the way for the publication of the Latin
_Thesaurus_ out which are bringing now the five German Academies.
One of his/her primary purposes, as it points out his/her title, it was to investigate
the history of Latin words, and in his/her first number the editor called
attention to the importance to know the pieces of the literature in that
every Latin word or the locution happened. The results have been many
illuminating. Of the words or constructions or sentences will be found, for
you quote an example, only in comedy, satire and the novel. Evidently They is
particular to the vulgar Latin. Others are freely used in these types of
literature, but it frugally assumed in historical or rhetorical jobs. Here
again a shade of the difference is well visible among formal and family