Colloquial and Literary Latin (Paperback)

Preface David Langslow; 1. Introduction Eleanor Dickey; 2. Colloquial language in linguistic studies James Clackson; 3. Roman authors on colloquial language Rolando Ferri and Philomen Probert; 4. Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism Anna Chahoud; 5. Preliminary conclusions Eleanor Dickey; 6. Possessive pronouns in Plautus Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo; 7. Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts Paolo Poccetti; 8. Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy Hilla Halla-aho and Peter Kruschwitz; 9. The fragments of Cato's Origines John Briscoe; 10. Hyperbaton and register in Cicero J. G. F. Powell; 11. Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus Harm Pinkster; 12. Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius Tobias Reinhardt; 13. Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar Andreas Willi; 14. The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution of Roman historiography Jan Felix Gaertner; 15. Grist to the mill: the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5 Richard F. Thomas; 16. Sermones deorum: divine discourse in Virgil's Aeneid Stephen Harrison; 17. Petronius' linguistic resources Martti Leiwo; 18. Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae Kathleen Coleman; 19. Colloquial Latin in Martial's Epigrams Nigel Kay; 20. Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius Leofranc Holford-Strevens; 21. Forerunners of Romance -mente adverbs in Latin prose and poetry Brigitte Bauer; 22. Late sparsa collegimus: the influence of sources on the language of Jordanes Giovanbattista Galdi; 23. The tale of Frodebert's Tail Danuta Shanzer; 24. Colloquial Latin in the insular Latin scholastic colloquia? Michael Lapidge; 25. Conversations in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Michael Winterbottom.