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Excerpt from La Poesie Et l'Eloquence a Rome au Temps des Cesars
Dans cette premiere periode, on peut deja remarquer deux langues bien distinctes la langue des senateurs et la langue des plebeiens (mbana, vulgaris), langue mere et feconde, alaquelle appartiennent: presque tous les idio mes de l'europe. En ce moment decisif, la langue ro ma1ne est barbare elle est energique et pleine de clarte. Les souvenirs: lointains de L'elegance athe nienne ne l'ont pas affaiblie; sans peril pour ses qua__ lites primitives, Tarquin, ce rare esprit, ingenieux pre curseur des plus beaux genies de l'italie, avait mis. A la mode, en son regne trop court, la philosophie etfles lettres dela Grece. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
