Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius

by Eleanor Dickey

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How did Romans address their children, their parents, their slaves, and their patrons? When one Roman called another 'dearest', 'master', 'brother', 'human being', 'executioner', or 'soft little cheese', what did these terms really mean and why? This book brings to bear on such questions a corpus of 15,441 addresses spanning four centuries, drawn from literary prose, poetry, letters, inscriptions, ostraca, and papyri and analysed during recent work...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199239053

ISBN13:9780199239054

Release Date:February 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:432 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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