... primarily on the relationship between Etruscan and Latin, since these languages have the most extensive documentation, but here the relationship of Etruscan to the Sabellian languages and, of course, to Raetic—the language to which it is most closely related—is also examined. This chapter discusses...

... in Latin, collected from a large variety of sources: direct transmission in manuscripts, metre, readings in manuscripts potentially resulting from a misunderstanding of a contracted spelling, inscriptions, grammarians, parallels in Sabellian languages, and other types of evidence. The chapter concludes...

... Felice Pietrabbondante pagus-vicus settlements Mefitis/Mephitis Sabellian languages Sabines codex Farnesianus temple-theater complexes Italic royalty Atta Navius In the Oscan language, spoken in pre-Roman times by most of the populations of central and southern Italy (see map 7.3 ), the name...

...This chapter presents some of the trends observable in the scanty evidence for early Latin prose that deserve scrutiny and may perhaps shed some light on the development of the classical patterns. Comparison with the Sabellian languages may also be instructive in allowing the Italic background...