Donatus’ Commentary to Terence: the language of Terence and the veteres

Authors

  • Ana-Isabel Magallón García Universidad de Zaragoza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v2i0.87958

Keywords:

Donatus; Commentum Terentii; historiography of the language.

Abstract

Donatus’ Commentum Terentii, despite its complex textual transmission, offers us an outstanding amount of linguistic data about an almost classical author who, nevertheless, becomes studied by him with the criteria of vetustas and archaismós. We shall analyze here the data allowing us to establish this methodology by the means of which Donatus (and his scholia) have studied the language of this playwright.

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Published

2002-12-20

How to Cite

Magallón García, A.-I. (2002) “Donatus’ Commentary to Terence: the language of Terence and the veteres”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 2, pp. 17–32. doi: 10.23808/rel.v2i0.87958.

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