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- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Frontispiece
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 ‘Grammatical’ Types
- Part 3 Semantic Types
- Part 4 Structures
- Part 5 Genres And Texts
- Chapter XXII Laws and Prayers
- Chapter XXIII Plautus
- Chapter XXIV Virgil and Early High-Style Poetry
- Chapter XXV Lucilius
- Chapter XXVI Cicero
- Chapter XXVII Catullus
- Chapter XXVIII Caesar, Bellum Ciuile: Asyndeton and Textual Criticism
- Chapter XXIX Horace
- Chapter XXX The Annalists, Sallust and Tacitus
- Chapter XXXI Livy
- Part 6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Mainly of Selected Pairs and Longer Sequences
- Selective Index Locorum
Chapter XXII - Laws and Prayers
from Part 5 - Genres And Texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 May 2021
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Frontispiece
- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Introduction
- Part 2 ‘Grammatical’ Types
- Part 3 Semantic Types
- Part 4 Structures
- Part 5 Genres And Texts
- Chapter XXII Laws and Prayers
- Chapter XXIII Plautus
- Chapter XXIV Virgil and Early High-Style Poetry
- Chapter XXV Lucilius
- Chapter XXVI Cicero
- Chapter XXVII Catullus
- Chapter XXVIII Caesar, Bellum Ciuile: Asyndeton and Textual Criticism
- Chapter XXIX Horace
- Chapter XXX The Annalists, Sallust and Tacitus
- Chapter XXXI Livy
- Part 6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Mainly of Selected Pairs and Longer Sequences
- Selective Index Locorum
Summary
In republican laws asyndetic coordination is widespread, whereas in early prayers in Latin, despite assumptions to the contrary (see e.g. Calboli 1997a: 800), it is uncommon. Umbrian religious language is a different matter: in the Iguvine tablets asyndeton is the normal type of coordination for pairs (see below, 4 for a detailed account of Umbrian).
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- Asyndeton and its Interpretation in Latin LiteratureHistory, Patterns, Textual Criticism, pp. 233 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021