{"product_id":"on-the-latin-language-volume-ii","title":"On the Latin Language, Volume II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncient Roman word lore.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVarro (M.  Terentius), 116–27 BC, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Of Varro’s more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise \u003ci\u003eOn Agriculture\u003c\/i\u003e (in LCL 283) and part of his monumental achievement \u003ci\u003eDe Lingua Latina\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eOn the Latin Language\u003c\/i\u003e),  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 inflections and other changes (Books 8–13); and syntax  (Books 14–25). Of the whole work survive (somewhat imperfectly) Books  5–10. These are from the section (Books 4–6) that 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) that applied analogy to word derivation. Varro’s work contains  much that is of very great value to the study of the Latin language. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Loeb Classical Library edition of \u003ci\u003eOn the Latin Language\u003c\/i\u003e is in two volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232112988504,"sku":"9780674993686","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674993686_768d1f7f-08d4-4c40-9dc7-ab7fecdd3103.jpg?v=1778562969","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-the-latin-language-volume-ii","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}