Latin Proclitics II

Abstract

While Chapter 4 considered the late antique evidence for Latin grammarians’ thought on proclitic words, Chapter 5 considers the much scantier evidence dating from the first three centuries AD, working backwards in time from comments in a glossary preserved on a third-century AD papyrus (P.Sorb. inv. 2069) to comments in Aulus Gellius, Velius Longus, Quintilian, and a fragment of Remmius Palaemon. The chapter argues that these texts repeatedly present us with a picture compatible with what we find in late antique grammatical texts, and sheds new light on the notoriously difficult discussion in Quintilian.