Roman Perspectives on Linguistic Diversity

Adam Gitner is a lexicographer at the Thesaurus linguae Latinae (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and docent in historical linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Short Title Abbreviations

Preface
Adam Gitner

Introduction
1. Counterfeit and Coinage: Gresham's Law and the Grammarian
James E. G. Zetzel

Part I: Varro
2. Varro the Conservative?
Katharina Volk
3. Varro and the Sabine Language in the De lingua Latina
Wolfgang D. C. de Melo
4. Varro's Word Trees
Andreas T. Zanker

Part II: Professional Grammarians
5. The Use of Greek in Diomedes' Ars grammatica
Bruno Rochette
6. The Grammarian Consentius on Language Change and Variation
Tommaso Mari
7. Antiquus = squalidus? Pompeius' Attitude towards Antiquity
Anna Zago
8. T(w)o Be or Not T(w)o Be: The dualis numerus according to Latin Grammarians up to the Early Middle Ages
Tim Denecker
9. Anonymous Grammatical Scholarship: Insights from an Annotated Juvenal Codex from Egypt
Alessandro Garcea and Maria Chiara Scappaticcio

Part III: Scholars and Intellectuals
10. Civic Metaphors for Lexical Borrowing from Seneca to Gellius
Adam Gitner
11. Grammar and Grammarians, Linguistic and Social Change from Gellius to Macrobius
Leofranc Holford-Strevens
12. Language Variation and Grammatical Theory in Roman Legal Texts
Rolando Ferri

Epilogue
The (Very Fragile) Origins of Guardians of Language
Robert A. Kaster

Prosopographical Addenda to Guardians of Language
Robert A. Kaster

Bibliography
General Index
Index of Notable Passages