02822nam 2200397 450 99620847280331620231103112141.00-674-99367-5(CKB)3820000000012278(NjHacI)993820000000012278(EXLCZ)99382000000001227820231103d1938 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn the Latin LanguageVolume I /Marcus Terentius Varro ; Roland G. Kent, translatorCambridge, MA :Harvard University Press,1938.1 online resource (432 pages)Loeb classical library ;LCL333Of more than seventy works by Varro (116-27 BCE) we have only his treatise On Agriculture and part of his On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts, and containing much of very great value to the study of the Latin language. Varro (M. Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library. Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in Loeb number 283) and part of his monumental achievement De Lingua Latina, On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts. Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts: etymology of Latin words (books 1-7); their inflexions and other changes (books 8-13); and syntax (books 14-25). Of the whole work survive (somewhat imperfectly) books 5 to 10. These are from the section (books 4-6) which applied etymology to words of time and place and to poetic expressions; the section (books 7-9) on analogy as it occurs in word formation; and the section (books 10-12) which applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that is of very great value to the study of the Latin language. The Loeb Classical Library edition of On the Latin Language is in two volumes.Loeb classical library ;LCL333.Latin languageGrammarLatin languageReadersLatin languageGrammar.Latin languageReaders.478.2421Varro Marcus Terentius71700Kent Roland G(Roland Grubb),1877-1952,NjHacINjHaclBOOK996208472803316De lingua latina20091UNISA