Expert: Maria - 6/1/2007

Question
Hello Maria, and thanks for your previous answer. Is there a bibliography on the grammar of the Fibula Praenestina, Duenos Vase, Ficoroni cista, Carmen Arvale and Carmen Saliare inscriptions and prayers? Also, can you recommend me a good etymological dictionary of the Latin language (not just a dictionary of Latin, I have enough of those), preferably in English, Greek or Italian?
Thanks in advance,
Morfeas


Answer
Hello,

glad to have helped you.
As for a bibliography on the grammar of the Fibula Praenestina, Duenos Vase, Ficoroni cista, Carmen Arvale and Carmen Saliare, I’m sorry, but such a bibliography could be found only in classical studies Reviews and in Classics Libraries, since Archaic Latin is an area to which only few classics scholars devote themselves.

So, I can only suggest some websites where you can read the texts of the Fibula Praenestina, Duenos Vase, Ficoroni cista, Carmen Arvale and Carmen Saliare.

Here they are:

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante07/Fibula/fib_insc.html

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante06/Lapis/lap_insc.html

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante07/Duenos/due_insc.html

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante04/CarmenSaliare/csa_text.ht...

http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/Chronologia/Lsante04/CarmenArvale/arv_carm.htm...

http://www.progettovidio.it/speciali/iscrizioni.pdf

Note that there is a collection of ancient Latin inscriptions: it is the “Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum” (C.I.L.) by Theodor Mommsen ( vol.I, 1853 )  and “Inscriptiones Latinae selectae (ILS) ed. H. Dessau, Berlin 1892 – 1916.

With regard to a good etymological dictionary of the Latin language, I can recommend the following:

-Online Etymological Dictionary of Latin(Etymology of the Latin Language By Francis Edward Jackson Valpy)
http://books.google.com/books?id=m2QSAAAAIAAJ&dq=etymological+dictionary+of+the+...

BOOKS.
-Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language by Francis Edward Jackson Valpy
http://www.amazon.com/Etymological-Dictionary-Language-Francis-Jackson/dp/140217...


-“Totius LATINITATIS Lexicon" (Latin Lexicon) by  Egidio Forcellini (1688 - 1768), Italian philologist

-"Etymological Dictionary of Latin"  by T. G. Tucker
http://www.amazon.com/Etymological-Dictionary-Latin-T-Tucker/dp/0890051720


Best regards,
Maria