De verborum significatu

Glinister, Fay Dominik, W.J., ed. 2012. De verborum significatu. [Online]. The Literary Encyclopedia: The Literary Encyclopedia. Available at: https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&U...

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Abstract

Sextus Pompeius Festus is the author of a Latin lexicon of the Roman imperial period, known as De Verborum Significationibus (On the Meaning of Words: Macrobius, Sat. 3.8.9), and based on an earlier work by Verrius Flaccus (55 BCE-CE 20), tutor to Augustus’ grandsons. Its etymologies and grammatical explanations of unusual or archaic words are richly detailed, and it contains often unique information on the history and legends, language and literature, political, social and religious institutions, laws, monuments and topographical traditions of ancient Rome and Italy. The text draws on late Republican antiquarian writers, and preserves numerous fragments of early Latin authors, above all Ennius, Plautus and Cato the Elder.

Item Type:	Website Content
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
Publisher:	The Literary Encyclopedia
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2023 15:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/164283

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