Résumé Malgré leur similitude, le rapprochement du falisque fitaidupes (Ve 241) et du sud-picénien pidaitúpas (TE 5) paraît très difficile à admettre pour des raisons d’ordre phonétique. En dépit des nombreuses tentatives pour comprendre le mot clef de l’inscription de Cérès, une explication entièrement satisfaisante fait toujours défaut. L’hypothèse traditionnelle, qui met en relation l’élément final - pes avec pendere et pondus du latin, laisse perplexe, et il faut certainement renoncer à l’interprétation curieuse qui fait de urnela [ti]tela une petite tirelire. Par conséquent, bien qu’elle semble séduisante d’un point de vue phonologique, la comparaison du falisque arcentelom avec le latin argentum pèche par la sémantique. Notre propos est de montrer que le texte falisque contient une allusion plaisante à la goutte, un mal qui dans l’Antiquité passait pour être associé avec une activité sexuelle débridée et des excès de table. Le vase était censé fournir un remède ( arcentelom , terme apparenté au latin arceo ) à celui dont le pied était enflé ( aidupes , cf. aemidus , pes et le nom grec d’Œdipe). L’étude se concentre ensuite sur le texte de la stèle anthropomorphe de Penna S. Andrea TE 5. Des observations de caractère descriptif, une approche combinatoire de sa structure syntaxique, et une prise en compte scrupuleuse des conventions orthographiques sud-picéniennes mènent à la formulation d’une hypothèse sur le contenu de l’inscription.
The Latin quantifier omnis has received and continues to receive numerous linguistic treatments, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The present contribution will neither give a new etymology for omnis nor summarize comprehensively the substantial body of scholarship pertaining to this quantifier, but is primarily concerned with the specific semantic questions arising from the etymological connection of omnis with Lat. ops , which can be considered as the present communis opinio . Does the prehistory of omnis illustrate a semantic change '(in) abundance' > 'whole' > 'all'? This paper also gives an overview of the Sabellic comparanda of omnis (Oscan úmbn[ , Paelignian omnitu ). The historical sources of other Latin quantifying pronouns and adjectives, especially tōtus and * sollos (cf. sollemnis ), are briefly discussed.
In spite of numerous publications devoted to the ancient Italic verse, the study of the verbal art in some Venetic inscriptions has been largely neglected by scholars. This lack of attention paid to poetical features is in part closely tied to the obvious limitations in our understanding of the Venetic language: the rich harvest of new inscriptions contributed only marginally to improving our knowledge of the grammar and lexicon. However, according to a view first expressed by Aldo Luigi Prosdocimi (1972), a metrical structure can be discerned in two archaic texts from Lozzo Atestino and Pernumia / Cartura, dated by their letter-forms and the use of scriptio continua (without syllabic punctuation) to the sixth century BCE. Prosdocimi's proposal is corroborated not only by an internal analysis of the texts, but also by comparative evidence from the Paleo-Sabellian epigraphic records. Both the text from Lozzo Atestino and the South Picene inscription TE 2 (Bellante) consist of three groups of seven syllables (7+7+7). Whereas TE 2 exhibits clear alliterations in Anlaut, there are no repetitions of word initial sounds on the kantharos of Lozzo Atestino. Nevertheless, a Jakobsonian approach reveals (among other poetical properties of the text) that the vowel qualities ('timbres') of the first and third heptasyllables are arranged in a chiastic order, since the timbres [a-(o-o)-e-o-i-o] (alkomno metlon śikos) are mirrored in the last sequence horvionte donasan [o-i-o-e-o-(a-a)] (the correction *horeionte is unnecessary). The Venetic inscription from Pernumia / Cartura consists of three heptasyllabic sequences (each with a dative ending -oi in rhyming position) followed by a trisyllabic extension
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