Aequian language
Aequian | |
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Native to | Aequian country |
Region | Latium, east-central Italy |
Era | attested 5th to 3rd century BC[1] |
Indo-European
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xae |
xae | |
Glottolog | aequ1239 aequ1238 code retired |
Abraham Ortelius's map of ancient Latium, published in 1595 |
Aequian is an extinct Italic language presumed spoken by the people the Romans termed
Corpus
Aequian is scantily documented by two inscriptions. Conway's publication of Italic inscriptions adds a gloss, several place names and several dozen personal names, but it does not distinguish which of these are certainly
The Inscription of Alba Fucens is a bronze plate inscribed with ALBSI PATRE.[3] Conway reconstructs the first word as *albe(n)si, a dative case. Baldi translates the text into Latin as Albano patri, two datives, and into English as "To the (god named) Alban Father."[4]
The second document is the Inscription of Cliternia (Capradosso) in Petrella Salto, an inscribed stone in a spring dissociated from context by nature (it rolled down a hill).[5] The text is:[2]
- VIA INFERIOR | PRIVATAST | T VMBRENI C F |
- PRECARIO | ITVR | PECVS PLOSTRV | NIQVIS AGAT
which is a notice stating that the road is private, passage by permission of Titus Umbrenus, son of Gaius, but beasts of burden are forbidden.
Notes
- the Linguist List
- ^ a b Conway, Robert Seymour (1897). The Italic Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 301–305.
- ^ Ernout 1916, pp. 43–44 gives the CIL number, as the inscription was originally taken to be early Latin: CIL I2 385, VI 3672, IX 4177.
- ^ Baldi, Philip (2002). The Foundations of Latin. Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. p. 122.
- ^ CIL IX, 4171, according to Ernout 1916, p. 45.
Bibliography
- Ernout, Alfred (2009) [1916]. Recueil de Textes Latins Archaïques (in French). Internet Archive.