Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

xviii, 515 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-472) and indexes.

Foreword / David Langslow -- pt. 1. Theoretical framework -- Introduction / Eleanor Dickey -- Colloquial language in linguistic studies / James Clackson -- Roman authors on colloquial language / Rolando Ferri and Philomen Probert -- Idiom(s) and literariness in classical literary criticism / Anna Chahoud -- Preliminary conclusions / Eleanor Dickey -- Possessive pronouns in Plautus / Wolfgang David Cirilo de Melo -- Greeting and farewell expressions as evidence for colloquial language: between literary and epigraphical texts / Paolo Poccetti -- Colloquial and literary language in early Roman tragedy / Hilla Halla-aho and Peter Kruschwitz -- The fragments of Cato's Origines / John Briscoe -- Hyperbaton and register in Cicero / J. G. F. Powell -- Notes on the language of Marcus Caelius Rufus / Harm Pinkster -- Syntactic colloquialism in Lucretius / Tobias Reinhardt -- Campaigning for utilitas: style, grammar and philosophy in C. Iulius Caesar / Andreas Willi -- The style of the Bellum Hispaniense and the evolution of Roman historiography / Jan Felix Gaertner -- Grist to the mill: the literary uses of the quotidian in Horace, Satire 1.5 / Richard F. Thomas -- Sermones deorum: divine discourse in Virgil's Aeneid / Stephen Harrison -- Petronius' linguistic resources / Martti Leiwo -- Parenthetical remarks in the Silvae / Kathleen Coleman -- Colloquial Latin in Martial's Epigrams / Nigel Kay -- Current and ancient colloquial in Gellius / Leofranc Holford-Strevens -- Forerunners of Romance -mente adverbs in Latin prose and poetry / Brigitte Bauer -- Late sparsa collegimus: the influence of sources on the language of Jordanes / Giovanbattista Galdi -- The tale of Frodebert's Tail / Danuta Shanzer -- Colloquial Latin in the insular Latin scholastic colloquia? / Michael Lapidge -- Conversations in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica / Michael Winterbottom.

Latin language -- Style.

Latin language, Colloquial.

Latin literature -- History and criticism.

Speech in literature.

Dickey, Eleanor.

Chahoud, Anna.

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