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... Roman alphabet ; and where this differs from the English pro- nunciation of the same letters ( as in the vowels a , e , i , u , the consonants c , g before e , i , and the semivowels j , v ) , the former , not the latter , pronunciation ...
... Roman alphabet ; and where this differs from the English pro- nunciation of the same letters ( as in the vowels a , e , i , u , the consonants c , g before e , i , and the semivowels j , v ) , the former , not the latter , pronunciation ...
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... Roman alphabets 27-38 39-45 CHAPTER IV . CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS OF SOUNDS- General principles- ' Dynamic ' change : Reduplication , Vowel- Intensification , and Nasalisation - ' Phonetic ' change : Sub- stitution , Loss ...
... Roman alphabets 27-38 39-45 CHAPTER IV . CHANGES AND MODIFICATIONS OF SOUNDS- General principles- ' Dynamic ' change : Reduplication , Vowel- Intensification , and Nasalisation - ' Phonetic ' change : Sub- stitution , Loss ...
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... Roman Empire to the Atlantic Ocean , and ( in the case of Keltic ) the gradual pressure of the Teutonic nations , driving the Kelts further and further westward . These Kelts , whom we meet with as the conquerors of Rome under Brennus ...
... Roman Empire to the Atlantic Ocean , and ( in the case of Keltic ) the gradual pressure of the Teutonic nations , driving the Kelts further and further westward . These Kelts , whom we meet with as the conquerors of Rome under Brennus ...
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... Roman Empire . In these we have not only a body of highly culti- vated languages , each with its subsidiary dialects ... Roman con- querors imposed the use of the Roman language , that lan- guage was subject in its use to all the ...
... Roman Empire . In these we have not only a body of highly culti- vated languages , each with its subsidiary dialects ... Roman con- querors imposed the use of the Roman language , that lan- guage was subject in its use to all the ...
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... Roman supremacy eastward : it is destitute of a proper literature . Moreover certain dialects of southern ( S. and S. E. ) Switzerland , are enough unlike Italian to be ordinarily ranked as an independent tongue , under the name of ...
... Roman supremacy eastward : it is destitute of a proper literature . Moreover certain dialects of southern ( S. and S. E. ) Switzerland , are enough unlike Italian to be ordinarily ranked as an independent tongue , under the name of ...
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Page 21 - Persius. The Satires. With a Translation and Commentary. By John Conington, MA, late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. Edited by H. Nettleship, MA Second Edition.
Page 223 - ... atque utei hoce in tabolam ahenam inceideretis ita senatus aiquom censuit uteique eam figier ioubeatis ubei facilumed gnoscier potisit atque utei ea Bacanalia sei qua sunt exstrad quam sei quid ibei sacri est ita utei suprad scriptum est in diebus X quibus vobeis tabelai datai erunt faciatis utei dismota sient.
Page 224 - С. de Bacch., but less antique in spelling, (the former being of a more formal legal nature). The earliest example of doubled letters. laimilius . 1 . f . inpeirator . decreiuit | utei . quei . hasten sium . seruei | in . turri . lascutana . habitarent | leiberei . es sent . agrum . oppidumqu [ quod . ea . tempestate . posedisent | item . possidere . habereque | iousit . dum . poplus . senatus que | romanus . uellet . act incastreis | ad . xii . k . febr IV. From an inscription at Polla in Lucania,...
Page 15 - Fasti Romani. The Civil and Literary Chronology of Rome and Constantinople, from the Death of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius.