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The Oxford Latin Dictionary (or OLD) is the standard English lexicon of Classical Latin, compiled from sources written before AD 200. Begun in 1933, it was published in fascicles between 1968 and 1982; a lightly revised second edition was released in 2012. The dictionary was created in order to meet the need for a more modern Latin-English ...
Summary. Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro) (70–19 bce) was a Latin poet, already celebrated in his own lifetime, who wrote during the triumviral period and the principate of Augustus. All his poems reflect on contemporary history while engaging with a range of literary traditions from the archaic to the contemporary neoteric.
The Oxford classical dictionary. Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition of this established dictionary of antiquity offers over 6,700 entries on all aspects of the classical world, with reception and anthropology as new focus areas. Additional subject areas are politics, government, and the economy; religion and mythology; law and ...
Latin had five basic vowels— a, i, u, e, o —each of which could be either long or short. These may be described phonetically in terms of the degree of raising of the tongue and the part of the tongue involved. Thus a is low (or “open”) central, i is high (or “close”) front, u is high back, e is mid-front, and o is mid-back.
According to Ovid ( Fast. 1. 671 ff.), Tellus was patroness of the place of cultivation, Ceres of cultivation's origins; and while Terra describes the element ‘earth’, Tellus is the name of its protecting deity (Serv. on Aen., 1. 171; 12. 778). Terra mater, ‘Mother Earth’, is only attested from the 2nd cent. bce (Pacuvius fr. 93 Ribbeck).
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Bibliography and cross-references updated. Archaism is the employment of obsolete or obsolescent diction intended as such (not the conservative retention of the language with which one grew up, nor the colloquial preservation of expressions eliminated from literary use). Its normal tendency, reinforced by Roman respect for antiquity, was to ...