By E. H. Warmington
The Loeb version of early Latin writings is in 4 volumes. the 1st 3 comprise the extant paintings of 7 poets and surviving parts of the Twelve Tables of Roman legislation. The fourth quantity comprises inscriptions on numerous fabrics (including coins), all written ahead of seventy nine BCE.
quantity I. Q. Ennius (239–169) of Rudiae (Rugge), writer of a very good epic (Annales), tragedies and different performs, and satire and different works; Caecilius Statius (ca. 220–ca. 166), a Celt most likely of Mediolanum (Milano) in N. Italy, writer of comedies.
quantity II. L. Livius Andronicus (ca. 284–204) of Tarentum (Taranto), writer of tragedies, comedies, a translation and paraphrase of Homer's Odyssey, and hymns; Cn. Naevius (ca. 270–ca. 200), most likely of Rome, writer of an epic at the 1st Punic conflict, comedies, tragedies, and ancient performs; M. Pacuvius (ca. 220–ca. 131) of Brundisium (Brindisi), a painter and later an writer of tragedies, a ancient play and satire; L. Accius (170–ca. eighty five) of Pisaurum (Pisaro), writer of tragedies, old performs, level heritage and perform, and a few different works; fragments of tragedies by way of authors unnamed.
quantity III. C. Lucilius (180?–102/1) of Suessa Aurunca (Sessa), author of satire; The Twelve Tables of Roman legislation, commonly of 451–450.
quantity IV. Archaic Inscriptions: Epitaphs, dedicatory and honorary inscriptions, inscriptions on and touching on public works, on movable articles, on cash; legislation and different records.
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Rijksbaron (2002: 127), for example, notes with regard to example (6) that periphrasis may suggest a subtle difference in conceptualization, the participle bringing forward the adjective-like quality of βλέπω ‘I see’ to a greater extent. Kühner & Gerth (1976 [1898]: 38) similarly find a greater emphasis in a progressive form such as δρῶν . . , Aj. 1324) ‘Agamemnon. ’ (tr. 13 In this context, 10 Compare the observations by Risselada (1987: 128–32) on the middle voice. Contrast Hauspie (2011: 139): ‘such periphrases [with the present participle, KB] .
94 Before discussing the ideational dimension of aspect in further detail, it is worth addressing two issues. 1. aspx>). For a thoroughgoing discussion on the various definitions given in modern scholarship of the aspectual opposition in Ancient Greek, see Fanning (1990: 8–85). 93 Compare Fleischman (1989, 1990). g. Rijksbaron (1988) and Bakker (1997). I further elaborate on the interplay between these dimensions in Bentein (2015a, 2016). 95 Cf. Joseph (1987: 428–9). 96 Maslov (1985: 16), for example, has argued that aspect can be expressed not only through morphological but also through lexical and syntactic information, and that different languages achieve aspect differently.
As I noted above, I believe aspect should be approached from a functional, rather than formal, point of view, and I do not see the point of distinguishing between ‘synthetic’ and ‘analytic’ aspect, as Hewson (1997: 14) proposes; while synthetic and periphrastic constructions do not necessarily cover the same functional domain, in principle they can be described in terms of the same (cross-linguistically attested) aspectual categories. 1 Imperfective aspect Imperfective aspect can be defined in terms of temporal ‘unboundedness’,100 meaning that no explicit attention is paid to the boundary transition phases of the event.