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Classical Latin, the Glossary

Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.^[1]

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1st-century BC establishments in the Roman Republic
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Classical Latin literature
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Latin language in ancient Rome

Ab urbe condita

Ab urbe condita ('from the founding of the City'), or anno urbis conditae ('in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome.

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Aemilius Asper

Aemilius Asper, Latin grammarian, possibly lived in the 1st century AD or late 2nd century AD.

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Aeneid

The Aeneid (Aenē̆is or) is a Latin epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who fled the fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Ages of Man

The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation.

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Alain Chartier

Alain Chartier (1430) was a French poet and political writer.

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Alcuin

Alcuin of York (Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria.

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Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. Classical Latin and ancient Greek are classical languages.

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Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Apuleius

Apuleius (also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician.

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Asconius Pedianus

Quintus Asconius Pedianus (BC 9 - AD 76) was a Roman historian.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Aulus Cornelius Celsus

Aulus Cornelius Celsus (25 BC 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.

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Aulus Cremutius Cordus

Aulus Cremutius Cordus (died 25 AD) was a Roman historian.

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Aulus Gellius

Aulus Gellius (c. 125after 180 AD) was a Roman author and grammarian, who was probably born and certainly brought up in Rome.

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Aulus Hirtius

Aulus Hirtius (– 43 BC) was consul of the Roman Republic in 43 BC and a writer on military subjects.

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Barea Soranus

Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus was a Roman senator who lived in the reign of Nero.

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Battle of Philippi

The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Liberators' civil war between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (of the Second Triumvirate) and the leaders of Julius Caesar's assassination, Brutus and Cassius, in 42 BC, at Philippi in Macedonia.

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Biblical canon

A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible.

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Catechism

A catechism (from κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts.

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Cato the Younger

Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis ("of Utica";,; 95 BC – April 46 BC), also known as Cato the Younger (Cato Minor), was an influential conservative Roman senator during the late Republic.

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Catullus

Gaius Valerius Catullus (84 – 54 BC), known as Catullus, was a Latin neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic.

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.

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Charles Thomas Cruttwell

Charles Thomas Cruttwell (1847–1911) was an English cleric, headmaster and classical scholar, known as a historian of Roman literature.

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Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.

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Classic

A classic is an outstanding example of a particular style; something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality; of the first or highest quality, class, or rank – something that exemplifies its class.

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Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity, also known as the classical era, classical period, classical age, or simply antiquity, is the period of cultural European history between the 8th century BC and the 5th century AD comprising the interwoven civilizations of ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin.

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Classics

Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.

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Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (1 August – 13 October) was a Roman emperor, ruling from to 54.

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Colosseum

The Colosseum (Colosseo) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum.

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Columella

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella (Arabic) was a prominent Roman writer on agriculture in the Roman Empire.

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Cornelius Bocchus

Lucius Cornelius Bocchus was a Lusitanian from Roman Hispania who wrote about natural history.

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Cornelius Nepos

Cornelius Nepos (c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer.

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David Ruhnken

David Ruhnken (2 January 172314 May 1798) was a Dutch classical scholar of German origin.

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Decimus Laberius

Decimus Laberius (c. 105 BC43 BC) was a Roman eques and writer of mimes (farces).

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Ecclesiastical Latin

Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church. Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin are forms of Latin.

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Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon (8 May 173716 January 1794) was an English essayist, historian, and politician.

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Ennius

Quintus Ennius was a writer and poet who lived during the Roman Republic.

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Flavius Caper

Flavius Caper was a Roman grammarian of Latin who flourished during the 2nd century AD.

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Florus

Three main sets of works are attributed to Florus (a Roman cognomen): Virgilius orator an poeta, the Epitome of Roman History and a collection of 14 short poems (66 lines in all).

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Frontinus

Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD.

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Gaius (jurist)

Gaius (fl. AD 130–180) was a Roman jurist.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus

Gaius Julius Hyginus (64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus.

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Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus

Gaius Licinius Macer Calvus (28 May 82 BC –) was an orator and poet of ancient Rome.

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Gaius Licinius Mucianus

Gaius Licinius Mucianus (fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman general, statesman and writer.

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Gaius Matius

Gaius Matius (fl. 1st century BC) (PW 1) was a citizen of ancient Rome notable as a friend of Julius Caesar and of Cicero, who described him in a letter to Trebatius (53BC) as "homo suavissimus doctissimusque".

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Gaius Musonius Rufus

Gaius Musonius Rufus (Μουσώνιος Ῥοῦφος) was a Roman Stoic philosopher of the 1st century AD.

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Gaius Oppius

Gaius Oppius was an intimate friend of Julius Caesar.

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Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (fl. AD 40–69) was a Roman general best known as the commander who defeated Boudica and her army during the Boudican revolt.

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Germanicus

Germanicus Julius Caesar (24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19) was an ancient Roman general and politician most famously known for his campaigns in Germania.

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Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus

Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus also anglicized as was a Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe in Narbonese Gaul who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus.

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Granius Licinianus

Granius Licinianus (active in the 2nd century AD) was a Roman author of historical and encyclopedic works that survive only in fragments.

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Grattius

Grattius (or Gratius) Faliscus was a Roman poet who flourished during the life of Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD).

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Hadrian

Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.

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Helvius Cinna

Gaius Helvius Cinna (died 20 March 44 BC) was an influential neoteric poet of the late Roman Republic, a little older than the generation of Catullus and Calvus.

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History of Rome (Livy)

The History of Rome, perhaps originally titled Annales, and frequently referred to as Ab Urbe Condita (From the Founding of the City), is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by the Roman historian Titus Livius, better known in English as "Livy".

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Homer

Homer (Ὅμηρος,; born) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature.

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Horace

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius,. commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96.

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Iliad

The Iliad (Iliás,; " about Ilion (Troy)") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Jean de Meun

Jean de Meun (or de Meung) was a French author best known for his continuation of the Roman de la Rose.

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John Sandys (classicist)

Sir John Edwin Sandys ("Sands"; 19 May 1844 – 6 July 1922) was an English classical scholar.

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Julio-Claudian dynasty

The Julio-Claudian dynasty comprised the first five Roman emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero.

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Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.

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Justin (historian)

Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus Frontinus; fl. century) was a Latin writer and historian who lived under the Roman Empire.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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Late Latin

Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary Latin of late antiquity. Classical Latin and late Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language in ancient Rome.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Classical Latin and Latin are forms of Latin.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Latin Library

The Latin Library is a website that collects public domain Latin texts.

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Latin literature

Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and other writings written in the Latin language.

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Latino-Faliscan languages

The Latino-Faliscan or Latinian languages form a group of the Italic languages within the Indo-European family.

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Laurence Echard

Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730) was an English historian and clergyman.

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Liber Memorialis

The Liber Memorialis is an ancient book in Latin featuring an extremely concise summary—a kind of index—of universal history from earliest times to the reign of Trajan.

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Linguistic prescription

Linguistic prescription, also called prescriptivism or prescriptive grammar, is the establishment of rules defining preferred usage of language.

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Literary language

Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language.

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Livius Andronicus

Lucius Livius Andronicus (Λούκιος Λίβιος Ανδρόνικος) was a Greco-Roman dramatist and epic poet of the Old Latin period during the Roman Republic.

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Livy

Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.

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Lucan

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain).

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Lucilius Junior

Lucilius Junior (fl. 1st century), was the procurator of Sicily during the reign of Nero, a friend and correspondent of Seneca, and the possible author of Aetna, a poem that survives in a corrupt state.

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Lucius Accius

Lucius Accius (170 – c. 86 BC), or Lucius Attius, was a Roman tragic poet and literary scholar.

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Lucius Cestius Pius

Lucius Cestius, surnamed Pius, Latin rhetorician, flourished during the reign of Augustus.

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Lucius Volusius Maecianus

Lucius Volusius Maecianus (c. 110 – 175) was a Roman jurist, who advised the Emperor Antoninus Pius on legal matters, as well educating his son the future Marcus Aurelius in the subject.

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Lucretius

Titus Lucretius Carus (–) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

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Lucullus

Lucius Licinius Lucullus (118–57/56 BC) was a Roman general and statesman, closely connected with Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

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Lustrum (journal)

Lustrum: Internationale Forschungsberichte aus dem Bereich des klassischen Altertums (English: "International research reports in the field of classical antiquity") is a refereed review journal in the field of classical studies.

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Mannerism

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

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Marcus Antistius Labeo

Marcus Antistius Labeo (died 10 or 11 AD) was a Roman jurist.

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (English:; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher.

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Marcus Caelius Rufus

Marcus Caelius Rufus (died 48 BC) was an orator and politician in the late Roman Republic.

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Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. 100late 160s AD), best known as Fronto, was a Roman grammarian, rhetorician, and advocate.

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Marcus Furius Bibaculus

Marcus Furius Bibaculus (1st century BC), was a Roman poet, who flourished during the last century of the Republic.

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Marcus Manilius

Marcus Manilius originally hailing from Syria, was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.

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Marcus Minucius Felix

Marcus Minucius Felix (died c. 250 AD in Rome) was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity.

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Marcus Porcius Latro

Marcus Porcius Latro (died 4 BC) was a celebrated Roman rhetorician who is considered one of the founders of scholastic rhetoric.

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Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) was a Roman polymath and a prolific author.

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Marcus Valerius Probus

Marcus Valerius Probus, also known as M. Valerius Probus Berytius or Probus the Berytian (c. 20/30 – 105 AD), was a Roman grammarian and critic, who flourished during Nero's reign.

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Martial

Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial; March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet born in Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan.

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Masurius Sabinus

Masurius Sabinus, also Massurius, was a Roman jurist who lived in the time of Tiberius (reigned 14–37 AD).

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Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Classical Latin and Medieval Latin are forms of Latin.

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Neo-Latin

Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout. Classical Latin and Neo-Latin are forms of Latin.

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Nerva–Antonine dynasty

The Nerva–Antonine dynasty comprised seven Roman emperors who ruled from AD 96 to 192: Nerva (96–98), Trajan (98–117), Hadrian (117–138), Antoninus Pius (138–161), Marcus Aurelius (161–180), Lucius Verus (161–169), and Commodus (177–192).

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Nigidius Figulus

Publius Nigidius Figulus (c. 98 – 45 BC) was a scholar of the Late Roman Republic and one of the praetors for 58 BC.

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Old Latin

Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin (Classical lit), was the Latin language in the period roughly before 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin. Classical Latin and Old Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language in ancient Rome.

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Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso (20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus.

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Packard Humanities Institute

The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) is a non-profit foundation, established in 1987, and located in Los Altos, California, which funds projects in a wide range of conservation concerns in the fields of archaeology, music, film preservation, and historic conservation, plus Greek epigraphy, with an aim to create tools for basic research in the Humanities.

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Pacuvius

Marcus Pacuvius (220 – c. 130 BC) was an ancient Roman tragic poet.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint.

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Perseus Digital Library

The Perseus Digital Library, formerly known as the Perseus Project, is a free-access digital library founded by Gregory Crane in 1987 and hosted by the Department of Classical Studies of Tufts University.

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Persius

Aulus Persius Flaccus (4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin.

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Phaedrus (fabulist)

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros), or Phaeder (c. 15 BC–c. 50 AD) was a 1st-century AD Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin.

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Philology

Philology is the study of language in oral and written historical sources.

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Plautus

Titus Maccius Plautus (254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. Classical Latin and Pliny the Elder are classical Latin literature.

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Pliny the Younger

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, born Gaius Caecilius or Gaius Caecilius Cilo (61 –), better known as Pliny the Younger, was a lawyer, author, and magistrate of Ancient Rome.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Pomponius Mela

Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.

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Propertius

Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.

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Publilius Syrus

Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae.

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Publius Juventius Celsus

Publius Juventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severianus (c. 67 – c. 130) — the son of a little-known jurist of the same name, hence also Celsus filius — was, together with Julian, the most influential ancient Roman jurist of the High Classical era.

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Publius Valerius Cato

Publius Valerius Cato (flourished 1st century BC) was a grammarian and poet of the Roman Republic.

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Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35 – 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing.

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Quintus Cornificius

Quintus Cornificius (died 42 BC) was an ancient Roman of senatorial rank from the gens Cornificia.

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Quintus Curtius Rufus

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing.

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Quintus Hortensius

Quintus Hortensius Hortalus (114–50 BC) was a famous Roman lawyer, a renowned orator and a statesman.

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Quintus Terentius Scaurus

Quintus Terentius Scaurus was a Latin grammarian who flourished during the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.

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Register (sociolinguistics)

In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

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Robert Ainsworth (lexicographer)

Robert Ainsworth (September 16604 April 1743) was an English Latin lexicographer, and author of a well-known compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Sallust

Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (86 –), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family.

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Salvius Julianus

Lucius Octavius Cornelius Publius Salvius Iulianus Aemilianus (c. 110 – c. 170), generally referred to as Salvius Julianus, or Julian the Jurist, or simply Julianus, was a well known and respected jurist, public official, and politician who served in the Roman imperial state.

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Satyricon

The Satyricon, Satyricon liber (The Book of Satyrlike Adventures), or Satyrica, is a Latin work of fiction believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius in the late 1st century AD, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as Titus Petronius.

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Seneca the Elder

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Elder (– c. AD 39), also known as Seneca the Rhetorician, was a Roman writer, born of a wealthy equestrian family of Corduba, Hispania.

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Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

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Separatism

Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group.

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Servius Sulpicius Rufus

Servius Sulpicius Rufus (c. 105 BC – 43 BC), was a Roman orator and jurist.

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Sextus Julius Africanus

Sextus Julius Africanus (160 – c. 240; Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries.

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Sextus Pomponius

Sextus Pomponius was a Roman jurist who lived during the reigns of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.

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Silius Italicus

Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus (c. 26 – c. 101 AD) was a Roman senator, orator and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

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Social class in ancient Rome was hierarchical, with multiple and overlapping social hierarchies.

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Standard language

A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.

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Statius

Publius Papinius Statius (Greek: Πόπλιος Παπίνιος Στάτιος) was a Latin poet of the 1st century CE.

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Suetonius

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly referred to as Suetonius (– after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

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Sulla

Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.

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Sulpicius Apollinaris

Sulpicius Apollinaris was a learned grammarian of Carthage who flourished in the 2nd century AD.

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Synod

A synod is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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Terence

Publius Terentius Afer (–), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright during the Roman Republic.

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The Golden Ass

The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety.

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, sometimes shortened to Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon.

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Thomas Sébillet

Thomas Sébillet (1512–1589) was a French jurist, an essayist and a neo-Platonist grammarian.

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Tiberius

Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was Roman emperor from AD 14 until 37.

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Tibullus

Albius Tibullus (BC BC) was a Latin poet and writer of elegies.

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Titus Calpurnius Siculus

Titus Calpurnius Siculus was a Roman bucolic poet.

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Titus Pomponius Atticus

Titus Pomponius Atticus (November 110 BC – 31 March 32 BC; later named Quintus Caecilius Pomponianus Atticus) was a Roman editor, banker, and patron of letters, best known for his correspondence and close friendship with prominent Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.

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Trajan

Trajan (born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, adopted name Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.

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Valerius Flaccus (poet)

Gaius Valerius Flaccus (died) was a 1st-century Roman poet who flourished during the "Silver Age" under the Flavian dynasty, and wrote a Latin Argonautica that owes a great deal to Apollonius of Rhodes' more famous epic.

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Valerius Maximus

Valerius Maximus was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia).

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Valgius Rufus

Gaius Valgius Rufus, was a Roman senator, and a contemporary of Horace and Maecenas.

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Velius Longus

Velius Longus (fl. 2nd century AD), Latin grammarian during the reign of Trajan (or Hadrian), author of an extant treatise on orthography (Heinrich Keil, Grammatici Latini, vii).

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Velleius Paterculus

Marcus Velleius Paterculus was a Roman historian, soldier and senator.

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Vernacular

Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.

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Verrius Flaccus

Marcus Verrius Flaccus (c. 55 BCAD 20) was a Roman grammarian and teacher who flourished under Augustus and Tiberius.

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Virgil

Publius Vergilius Maro (traditional dates 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

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Vitruvius

Vitruvius (–70 BC – after) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura.

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Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward. Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin are forms of Latin and Latin language in ancient Rome.

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W. Sidney Allen

William Sidney Allen, (1918–2004), was a British linguist and philologist, best known for his work on Indo-European phonology.

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Webster's Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary is any of the English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), an American lexicographer, as well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor.

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Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel

Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (September 27, 1820March 8, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg.

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William Bradford (governor)

William Bradford (19 March 15909 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.

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Writing style

In literature, writing style is the manner of expressing thought in language characteristic of an individual, period, school, or nation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Latin

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