Capitolo 5
Franco and Burgundian, and you/he/she has kept on holding a lot to our his/her own day a
great part of the territory that acquired some two thousand years
ago.
That Latin was not only the discourse common of the western world you/he/she is attested
from the fact that the languages of France, Spain, Roumania and the other
Romantic countries come down from him, but you/he/she have clearly shown also from the
thousand of Latin registrations composed by citizen and freedman, from
carpenter, baker and soldier that we find all on the Roman world.
As this extraordinary result been needed? It was not the conquest of
the world from the language common of Italy, because in Italy in the first days
at least nine different languages you/they had spoken, but his/her subjugation from the
language spoken in the city of Rome. The traditional account in Rome, as
Livy and others report him/it, it tells nearby us of a struggle with the
Latin city of hill in the first days of the Republic and the last
the formation of an alliance between Rome and they. The favorable position of
the city on the Tiber for work and defense gave him on a great advantage
his/her competitors, and it became soon the commercial and political centre of the
territory nearby. The more main point of these villages, Tusculum,
Praeneste and Lanuvium, were not more than winds distant miles and the
people in them are due to come to Rome to continually frequent the markets,
and in later days to vote, to feel political discourses and to listen to
plays in the theater. Some of them probably felt the jokes to the expense
of their dialect particularities that Plautus introduced in his
comedies. The youngest generations became ashamed of their provincialisms;
they imitated the Latin spoken to the metropolis, and from the second
century of ours was, when the Latin grammarians have occasion to quote
the dialect particularities from Latium out in Rome, they quotes to
second-hand from I will Be worth some first century A.C., one because they wants
doesn't take the trouble to use their his/her own ears or because the differences