The Common People of Ancient Rome - Studies of Roman Life and Literature

Frank Frost Abbott

Capitolo 4

therefore it had a life of his really, so that even if Latin you/he/she had spoken to everybody
of them it varied from one to the other. This has clearly shown enough from
the registrations of which have been found on the places this ancient
towns,[1] and as late as the the closing of the third century before ours was,
Plautus strikes fun in his/her comedies to the provincialism of Praeneste.

The cities that we have mentioned were only some miles in Rome. Over
them, and occupying central Italy and a great part of southern Italy, it was
people that spoke Oscan and the other Cursive dialects that were reported
to the Latin, and still rather separate from him. In the seaports of the south
Greek had spoken, while the Messapians and Iapygians occupied Calabria. To
the north in Rome is almost equally the mysterious Etruscanses and the
Venetian puzzling and Ligurians. When we follow the Roman legions through
the Alps in Switzerland, France, England, Spain and Africa, we enter a
jungle, as is, of languages and dialects. A mere reading of the list
of languages with which Latin you/he/she was brought in contact, if such list was able
is drawn on, it would bring the tiredness to the meat. In the part of Gaul
it conquered from Caesar, for example that he tells that there were three
independent languages and sixty been separate which the peoples undoubtedly
differed by each other in their discourse. If we look to a map of the
Mondo Roman under Augustus, with the Atlantic to the limits on the west, the
Euphrates on the east, the desert of Sahara on the south and the Rhine
and Danube on the north, and it recalls the fact that the linguistic one
you condition that Caesar found in Gaul in the 58 A.C. it was typical of that that
the Latin compared in a great very of the westerner, southern, and northern
provinces, the fact that Latin it subjugated all these different languages, and
become the discourse of every-day of these different peopleses, you/he/she will be recognized
as one of the wonder of history. In fact, so firmly it established
it, that withstood the assaults of the invading Gothic, Lombardic,
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