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本文将瓦罗在《拉丁语译本》(Delingua Latina)第 5 卷(1-56)中对 locus 的词源学讨论解释为瓦罗 "基于地方 "历史的代表。文章认为,瓦罗将罗马的loci重构为当代城市和罗马文化的宇宙本质和结构性元素,这取决于作者对过去和历史真相的独特理解--即真相的基本原则体现在不同的现实层面和不同的时间点上。因此,地方--神庙、山丘、丛林园或其他地方--在提供罗马的制度、宗教和人民的基本意义方面具有特别重要的意义。论证表明,罗马的自然环境被解释为原始宇宙的一部分,如何在瓦罗的文字史重建中解释当前的社会和政治事实。特别是卡皮托利尼山的宗教重要性,以及公元前一世纪阿文廷与城市其他部分的分离,都得到了词源学上的解释,而这些解释都依赖于久违的城市自然地形。
Cosmology, Place, and History in Varros's De lingua latina 5
This article interprets Varro’s etymological discussion of locus in book 5 of Delingua Latina (1-56) as representative of a Varronian “place-based” history. It argues thatVarro’s reconstruction of Rome’s loci as cosmically essential and structuring elementsof both the city and Roman culture in his present day depended upon the author’s peculiarunderstanding of the past and of historical truth – namely, that fundamental principlesof truth manifest both on different levels of reality, and at different points in time.Places – temples, hills, groves, or otherwise – therefore were particularly significant inproviding access to the essential meaning of Rome’s institutions, religion, and people.Varro’s consideration of the Septimontium is then analyzed within this framework. Theargument demonstrates how Rome’s natural environment, construed as part of an originalcosmos, could explain the social and political facts of the present in Varro’s reconstructionof word-history. In particular, the religious importance of the Capitoline hill,and the separation of the Aventine from the rest of the city in the first century BCE, areboth given etymological explanations that depend upon the long-lost natural topographyof the city.