Capitolo 25
existence of a form of discourse among the Romans that cannot be identified
with the literary Latin, but you/he/she has been contained from some writers that the
material for his study it is scarce. However, an impartial examination
of the facts not to conduct one to this conclusion owes. On the Latin side
the material includes the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the comedian
fragments, the family odes of Catullus, the satires of Lucilius, Horace,
and Seneca, and here and there of Persius and Juvenal, the family one
Cicero's letters, the novel of Petronius and that of Apuleius partly,
the Vulgate and some of the Christian fathers, the Trip in Jerusalem of
St. AEtheria, the glossaries of the technical books as Vitruvius and the
treated veterinarian of Chiron and the private registrations, notably
epitaphs, the registrations of wall in Pompeii and the lead tablets founded
buried in the earth on which illiterate people wrote curses on them
hostile.
It is clear that there you/he/she has been preserved for the study of colloquial
Latin a very great body of material, coming from a great variety of
sources and racing in point of time from Plautus in the third century
A.C. to St. AEtheria in the second part of the fourth century or later. It
it includes books from trained writers as Horace and Petronius that
knowingly you adopt the Latin of the life of every-day and productions from
people without education as San AEtheria and the writers of epitaphs that have
unconsciously it used him.
St. Jerome tells some place of Latin spoken as which "continually it changes
You pass from a district to another, and from one period to another" (the et
ipsa Latinitas et regionibus cotidie mutatur et tempore). If he had added
how various also with circumstances, he would have included the three
factors that the most greater part has for doing in to influence the development of some
spoken language. We am done aware of the changes that you/he/she has brought time
around in colloquial English when we compare the conversations in Fielding