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Title: Libris Grammaticis

Author: M. Terentius Varro

Editor: Augustus Wilmanns

Release Date: July 31, 2005 [EBook #16400]

Language: Latin

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Greek words have been transliterated and placed inside double quotes:
"lexis". Individual letters have been written out: "alpha," "epsilon."
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(reversed C) has been expressed as *C. Greek letters used as numbers
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De
M. TERENTI VARRONIS
LIBRIS GRAMMATICIS

Scripsit
Relliquiasque Subiecit

AVGVSTVS WILMANNS

Berolini
Apud Weidmannos
MDCCCLXIIII

Friderico Ritschl
Ottoni Iahn
Praeceptoribus

AMORIS CAVSA

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PRAEFATIO

Cum per tempus aliquod uersato in conligendis et disponendis
relliquiis Varronianis specimen studiorum mihi proponendum esset,
elegi libros grammaticos; nam eos commode ceteris neglectis tractari
et singulorum argumentum paullo quam adhuc factum est accuratius
circum scribi posse intellegebam. dispositionem et indolem horum
librorum indagare contentus neque uniuersam Varronis grammaticam
theoriam explicate studui, quae res necessaria et magni momenti ad
cognoscendam historian grammaticae antiquae nitatur in libris V-X de
lingua latina nunc a meo consilio alienis, neque in singulis locis
inlustrandis omnia quae cum his coniuncta fuisse coiceres congerere,
sed in certis