The Italic Dialects Edited with a Grammar and Glossary [Paperback]

A two-volume collection, published in 1897 with a grammar and glossary, of the remains of Oscan, Umbrian and other Italic dialects.Published in 1897, Volume 2 of this study of the surviving remains of all the minor Italic dialects contains an alphabet, a grammar and syntax of the dialects, appendices, indexes of geographical and personal names, a glossary, and an index of Latin words.Published in 1897, Volume 2 of this study of the surviving remains of all the minor Italic dialects contains an alphabet, a grammar and syntax of the dialects, appendices, indexes of geographical and personal names, a glossary, and an index of Latin words.Published in 1897, this two-volume work by Robert Seymour Conway (18641933), classical scholar and comparative philologist, later Hulme Professor of Latin at the University of Manchester, aims to shed light on the origins of the Latin language and Roman institutions by careful examination of the dialects and customs of Rome's neighbours. The second volume provides an outline of the grammar of the Italic dialects, the surviving remains of which were collected in the first volume. There are six dialect alphabets given, followed by a sketch of their accidence and syntax. The first appendix discusses the Oscan measures of the mensa ponderaria at Pompeii; a second gives alien, doubtful or spurious inscriptions. The bulk of the volume consists of indexes of geographical and personal names, a glossary of the dialect words, and an index of Latin words used in the work.Part II. An Outline of the Grammar of the Italic Dialects: 1. The alphabets; 2. Accidence of the Osco-Umbrian dialects; 3. Notes on the syntax of the dialect inscriptions; Appendix; Indices.