Book contents
- Early Latin
- Early Latin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is ‘Early Latin’?
- Part I The Epigraphic Material
- Part II Drama
- Part III Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
- Chapter 13 The Language of Early Latin Epic
- Chapter 14 Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
- Chapter 15 Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts
- Chapter 16 Repetition in the Fragmentary Orators
- Chapter 17 How ‘Early Latin’ Is Lucilius?
- Chapter 18 Greek Influences on Cato’s Latin
- Chapter 19 Greek Loanwords in ‘Early Latin’
- Part IV Reception
- Bibliography
- Index Verborum
- Index of Non-Latin Words
- Index Locorum Potiorum
- Subject Index
Chapter 14 - Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
from Part III - Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Early Latin
- Early Latin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction: What Is ‘Early Latin’?
- Part I The Epigraphic Material
- Part II Drama
- Part III Other Genres and Fragmentary Authors
- Chapter 13 The Language of Early Latin Epic
- Chapter 14 Early Latin Prayers and Aspects of Coordination
- Chapter 15 Some Syntactic Features of Latin Legal Texts
- Chapter 16 Repetition in the Fragmentary Orators
- Chapter 17 How ‘Early Latin’ Is Lucilius?
- Chapter 18 Greek Influences on Cato’s Latin
- Chapter 19 Greek Loanwords in ‘Early Latin’
- Part IV Reception
- Bibliography
- Index Verborum
- Index of Non-Latin Words
- Index Locorum Potiorum
- Subject Index
Summary
This chapter examines aspects of coordination in the language of Latin prayers. The general question addressed concerns the sense in which early Latin features manifest themselves in prayers, and whether the term ‘early Latin’ is an appropriate designation of any peculiarities of prayer coordination. The results of the inquiry on ‘early’ prayers in the corpus considered in the chapter is that asyndeton bimembre, though in use, was not in high fashion, and that end-of-list coordination was preferred to long asyndeta and multiple coordinations, a preference that is the reverse of that of genres other than prayers in the early period and later.
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- Early LatinConstructs, Diversity, Reception, pp. 292 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023