Capitolo 29
the certain colloquial words and sentences in that he would not use formal
writing. Therefore the two ellipses would not be coterminous. In Fig tree. II
the heavy ellipse has the same meaning as in Fig tree. Me, while the space
included by the dotted line it represents the dictionary of a without education
Romano that very it would be smaller than that than Cicero and it would show a
the greatest degree of the difference from the literary dictionary that Cicero
conversational escort of words. The relationship of the uncultivated one
The conversational dictionary of Roman to that of Cicero is illustrated in Fig tree.
III, while Fig tree. IV shows as the Latin of the reasonable man to Rome it is able
best men, for example, with that of a resident of Lugudunum, in Gaul.
This naturally brings us to consider the historical relationships of literary
and the colloquial Latin. In to explain them you/he/she has often been presumed that
Latin colloquial it is a degenerate form of the literary Latin, or that the
according to it is a refined type of the first one. Both these theories are equally
false. Nobody is deduced by the other. The true state of the case has
has ever put better that from Schuchardt that it says: Latin and vulgar stands"
with reference to the formal Latin in any derivative relationship, in anybody fatherly
relationship, but they is near side side. It is true that vulgar Latin came
from a Latin with fuller and freer the forms, but it didn't come from formal
Latin. It is true that Latin formal it came from a Latin of a more popular
and a rawwer character, but it didn't come from the vulgar Latin. In the
original discourse of the people, Latin preliterary (the prisca Latinitas),
the origin of both will be found; they was twin brothers."
Of this Latin preliterary we don't have record. The best we can do it is to
inflicts that of which its characteristics were from the more first fragments the
language that has come down to us from the laws of the Twelve Tables,,
for example, from the religious and legal formulae preserved to us from