"Etymologicon" Quotes from Famous Books
... language, expressive of the wants or simple relations of life, are almost literally Greek—such as pater, frater, aratrum, bos, ager, etc. For the derivation of the Latin from the Aeolic dialect of Greece, see "Scheid's Prolegomena to Lennep's Etymologicon Linguae Grecae." ... — Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |