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Etymologiarum sive Originum libri XX (622 - 633) Isidore of Seville |
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Latinas autem linguas quattuor esse quidam dixerunt, id est Priscam, Latinam, Romanam, Mixtam.
Prisca est, quam uetustissimi Italiae sub Iano et Saturno sunt usi, incondita, ut se habent carmina Saliorum. Latina, quam sub Latino et regibus Tusci et ceteri in Latio sunt locuti, ex qua fuerunt duodecim tabulae scriptae.
Romana, quae post reges exactos a populo Romano coepta est, qua Naeuius, Plautus, Ennius, Vergilius poetae, et ex oratoribus Gracchus et Cato et Cicero uel ceteri effuderunt. Mixta, quae post imperium latius promotum simul cum moribus et hominibus in Romanam ciuitatem
inrupit, integritatem uerbi per soloecismos et barbarismos corrumpens. |
| Translation |
6 . Some say there are four varieties of Latin, that is, Ancient ( Priscus ), Latin, Roman, and Mixed. The Ancient is that uncouth language that the oldest people of Italy spoke in the age of Janus and Saturn, and it is preserved in the songs of the Salii. Then Latin, which the Etruscans and others in Latium spoke in the age of Latinus and the kings, and in this variety the Twelve Tables were written. 7 . Then Roman, which arose after the kings were driven out by the Roman people. In this variety the poets Naevius, Plautus, and Vergil, and the orators Gracchus and Cato and Cicero, and others produced their work. Then Mixed, which emerged in the Roman state after the wide expansion of the Empire, along with new customs and peoples, corrupted the integrity of speech with solecisms and barbarisms. (Trans. Barney, Lewis, Beach, Berghof, p. 191) |
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ix.1.6-7 |
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