Varro's anti-analogist

Bibliographic Data

ID23170702
AuthorsDavid Blank (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2005
Pages210-238
Publication date2005-06-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLanguage and Learning (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511482526.009
OpenAlexW312136472
ISBN9780511482526
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited126

In the Summer of 47 bc Varro promised to dedicate a large and important work to Cicero (Att. 13.12.3 = 13.24.3 Kasten). In mid 45 Cicero was still waiting for the fulfilment of Varro's promise, and his irritation over this delay may have caused him not to accede immediately to Atticus' advice to dedicate a work to Varro. Scholars agree that the large work Varro intended to dedicate to Cicero was the treatise De lingua Latina, which in its eventual twenty-five books was certainly weighty enough. It was also appropriate as a gift to Cicero, offering both theoretical discussions of the methods to be used in determining linguistic correctness and counsel on how to apply the methods deemed best in practice.

Art · Cicero · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History

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