By Evangelos Karakasis
This e-book deals a finished exam of the language of Roman comedy in most cases and that of Terence specifically. The research explores Terence's use of language to distinguish his characters and his language in terms of the language of the comedian fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic different types within the Terentian corpus explored contain colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal gains. Terence is proven to provide his previous males an old school and verbose tone, whereas low characters are represented as utilizing colloquial diction. An exam of Eunuchus' language exhibits it to be in the direction of the Plautine linguistic culture. The ebook additionally presents an intensive linguistic/stylistic remark on the entire fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. It indicates that Terence, other than with regards to his Eunuchus, consciously distances himself from the linguistic/stylistic culture of Plautus by way of all different comedian poets.
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Quam in the sense of ‘as much as’ – ita . . g. g. plane, recte, ita, verum, admodum etc. 43 chapter 2 ARCHAISMS Introduction and overall review Terence stands closer to CL than Plautus. There is, however, a group of lexical, morphological and syntactical phenomena that occur in Terence in both their Early Latin and their classical forms. In these cases the EL equivalent seems to be rather the exception than the rule; it is found rarely, whereas the CL equivalent is the regular form. In Terence one often finds that the EL feature is restricted to specific plays or characters, while all others use the CL form.
I 23 p. 304c inveni cistellam quae uvas . . habebat. The word is found at Eun. 753 cistellam, Pythias, domo ecfer, in the speech of the meretrix Thais. 2. g. Cist. 21 In Terence it is found at Heaut. 514–15 videlicet ille Cliniai servos tardiusculust, in the speech of the rustic senex Chremes. 3. grandiusculus: this is the reading offered by both Donatus and Eugraphius at Andr. 814 grandiuscula iam profectast illinc. g. Epist. 2, Serm. 1, In epist. Ioh. 1 p. 2045, Epist. 8 etc. The word is used by Crito while addressing the ancilla Mysis.
E. semantically with no difference from its uncompounded equivalent, mitigare (cf. ). It is uttered by the parasite Gnatho. The word appears once more in this sense, with reference to the human body again, in Aug. C. Iul. 11 verum etiam capita sandaliis muliercularum commitigentur. Similarly, collocupleto with 34 35 For the colloquial character of such formations, cf. Cooper (1895: 258–62), Wahrmann (1908: 95). For an analytic examination of the distribution of such formations, cf. Cooper (1895: 262–71).