Varro and the Teaching of Latin Daniel J. Taylor Jones Professor Emeritus of Classics

Varro and the Teaching of Latin Daniel J. Taylor Jones Professor Emeritus of Classics and Linguistics Lawrence University Appleton, Wisconsin P.O. Box 2006, Silverthorne, CO 80498 [email protected]

REFERENCES

1) DJT's first ACL paper: “Rationalism in Language Learning,” ADFL Bulletin 3, 4 (1972) 13-17. “Mures, immo Homines: Rationalism in Language Learning,” Classical Outlook LI (1974) 64-67 & 78-79.

2) Varro's bio: “Varro,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Ancient Roman Writers. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999, 340-345.

3) Extant and lost books: “Philology, Linguistic Theory, and the Prehistory of Varro’s De Lingua Latina,” in Speculum Historiographiae Linguisticae. Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1989, 71-76. See also reference 9, pp. 38-42.

4) Structure of LL: "The New Varro and the Structure of his De Lingua Latina," in Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World. Cambridge Classical Journal, Supplementary Volume 39. Edited by D. J. Butterfield. Cambridge: The Cambridge Philological Society 2015, 19-31.

5) Verbs of fearing: “Verbs of ‘fearing’ in Latin,” Classical Outlook 61 (1984) 83-84.

6) Varro's linguistic theory: Declinatio: A Study of the Linguistic Theory of Marcus Terentius Varro. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1974 (1975).

7) Ordo: “Ordo in Book Ten of Varro’s De Lingua Latina,” in Varron, Grammaire Antique, et Stylistique Latine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1978, 71-74.

8) Materia & figura: See reference 6, pp. 79, 86-99, & Glossary under materia, figura, res, vox.

9) §§43-44: Varro De Lingua Latina X: A New Critical Text and English Translation with Prolegomena and Commentary. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996. See pp. 74-81 for text and translation, and pp. 136-148 for argumentation and discussion.

10) Varro's models: rex:regi::lex:legi; legebam:lego::lego:legam; Herculi & Herculis: Heracles::Diomedi & Diomedis:Diomedes; albus:albo:albi::alba:albae:albae: album: albo:albi. “Varro’s Mathematical Models of Inflection,” TAPA (Transactions of the American Philological Association) 107 (1977) 313-323. See also reference 9, pp. 26-28 & 148.

1 11) Kent, Roland G., ed. & transl. 1958 [ 1938]. Varro: On the Latin Language. 2 vols. 2nd rev. ed. London: William Heineman; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

N.B. All publications but the last are by DJT. DANIEL J. TAYLOR Hiram A. Jones Professor and Chair of Classics Emeritus Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin

PUBLICATIONS

I: Books

DECLINATIO: A Study of the Linguistic Theory of Marcus Terentius Varro. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1974 (1975).

The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period. Editor. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987.

Foreign Languages at the Middle Level. Co-author/Co-editor. Hartland (WI): WAFLT, 1993. Varro De Lingua Latina X: A New Critical Text and English Translation with Prolegomena and Commentary. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1996.

II: Articles

“Rationalism in Language Learning,” ADFL Bulletin 3, 4 (1972) 13-17.

“Aspects of Negation in Classical Greek,” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2, 1 (1972) 105-122.

“Mures, immo Homines: Rationalism in Language Learning,” Classical Outlook LI (1974) 64-67 & 78-79.

“Varro, De Lingua Latina 10.76,” American Journal of Philology 97 (1976) 119-120.

“Two Notes on Varro,” American Journal of Philology 98 (1977) 130-132.

“Varro’s Mathematical Models of Inflection,” TAPA (Transactions of the American Philological Association) 107 (1977) 313-323.

“Ordo in Book Ten of Varro’s De Lingua Latina,” in Varron, Grammaire Antique, et Stylistique Latine. Paris: Les Belles Lettres 1978, 71-74.

“Palaemon’s Pig,” Historiographia Linguistica VIII (1981) 191-193.

“Conflicting Testimony on Crates and Aristarchus,” Historiographia Linguistica X (1983) 365-366. “Verbs of ‘fearing’ in Latin,” Classical Outlook 61 (1984) 83-84.

“Another Royal Investigation of the Origin of Language?”, Historiographia Linguistica XI (1984) 503-505.

“Relief is in Sight: Observations on Greek and English Grammar,” Classical Journal 80 (1984-85) 157-158. (with Gerda M. Seligson).

“Rethinking the History of Language Science in Classical Antiquity,” Historiographia Linguistica XIII (1986) 175-190.

“The Roman Grammarians Today,” The Michigan Latin Forum I, 3 (1988) 4-5.

“Varro and the Origins of Latin Linguistic Theory,” in L’Héritage des Grammairiens Latins, de l’Antiquité aux Lumières. Paris: Bibliothèque de l’Information grammaticale 1988, 37-48.

“Philology, Linguistic Theory, and the Prehistory of Varro’s De Lingua Latina,” in Speculum Historiographiae Linguisticae. Münster: Nodus Publikationen 1989, 71-76.

“Reading Latin,” Voice of WAFLT XVI, 2 (1989) 31-32.

“Dionysius Thrax Vs. Marcus Varro,” Historiographia Linguistica XVII (1990) 15-27.

“Roman Language Science,” in Geschichte der Sprachtheorie 2: Sprachtheorien der abendländischen Antike. Tübingen: Gunter Narr 1991, 334-352.

“Latin Declensions and Conjugations: From Varro to Priscian,” Histoire Epistémologie Langage 13, II (1991) 85-109. “Classical Antiquity: Language Study,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon 1993, 2:559-565.

“Roman Language Science in the Early Empire,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon 1993, 7:3598-3601.

“Varro and Early Latin Language Science,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon 1993, 9:4910-4913.

“Varro, Marcus Terentius,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon 1993, 9:4913.

“Desperately Seeking Syntax: Rethinking the History of Syntactic Theory in Greece and Rome,” Language & Communication 13 (1993) 265-285.

“Maurice P. Cunningham,” Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport, CT: Greenwood (1994) 120-121.

“Albert Augustus Trever,” Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Westport, CT: Greenwood (1994) 652-654.

“Roman Coins and Roman History,” in Bearers of Meaning. Appleton, Wisconsin: Lawrence University Press, 1995, 29-36.

“Classical Linguistics: An Overview,” in Concise History of the Language Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon 1995, 83-90.

“Roman Language Science in the Early Empire,” in Concise History of the Language Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon 1995, 107-110. “Varro and Early Latin Language Science,” in Concise History of the Language Sciences. Oxford: Pergamon 1995, 103-107.

“Style and Structure in Varro?,” in Ancient Grammar: Content and Context. Leuven: Peeters, 1996, 91-103.

“Varro,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Ancient Roman Writers. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999, 340-345.

“Varro and the Origin of Roman Linguistic Theory and Practice,” in History of the Language Sciences. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2000, 455-458.

“May Eve in the Concilium Romarici Montis,” Neophilologus, 88 (2004), 163-164.

“Painting Pictures with Words in Latin,” Voice of WAFLT 33,1 (2005) 14-15.

“Classical Antiquity: Language Study,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier 2006, 2:431-438.

“Quintilian,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier 2006, 10:331.

“Varro, Marcus Terentius,” The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd Ed. Edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier 2006, 13:396.

“Priscian’s Pedagogy: A Critique of the Institutio de Nomine et Pronomine et Verbo,” in History of Linguistics 2005: Selected Papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1-5 September 2005, Urbana- Champaign, Illinois. Edited by Douglas A. Kibbee. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2007, 80- 88. “Rewriting the History of the Language Sciences in Classical Antiquity,” in History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August – 2 September 2008, Potsdam. Edited by Gerda Hassler. Amsterdam: Benjamins 2011, 109-125.

"Ut pictura poiesis: A Note on the Word Order in De Rerum Natura I.99. In Power of Place: Festschrift for Janet Smith, ed. by R. T. Chasson and T. J. Sienkewicz. Chicago: Associated Colleges of the Midwest 2012, 208-209.

"Two Fragments of the Carmen Saliare and the Manuscript Tradition of Varro's De Lingua Latina," Codices Manuscripti & Impressi 91/92 (2013) 1-10. (with Giulia Sarullo).

"The New Varro and the Structure of his De Lingua Latina," in Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World. Cambridge Classical Journal, Supplementary Volume 39. Edited by D. J. Butterfield. Cambridge: The Cambridge Philological Society 2015, 19-31.

"Varro and Etymologiae a Contrariis", forthcoming in Historiographia Linguistica 43:1/2 (2016) 1-9.

"Why the Accusative Case is called 'Accusative,'" forthcoming in the Festschrift for Alfons Wouters.

III: Reviews

Greek Dialects & the Transformation of an Indo-European Process by Gregory Nagy, Classical Folia 24 (1970) 272-274.

Plautus: Rudens by H. C. Fay, Classical Outlook L (1973) 67. Naming-Constructions in Indo-European Languages by E. Adelaide Hahn. Classical Journal 69 (1974) 277-279.

Classics and the Classical Tradition edited by E. Borza and R. Carrubba, Classical Outlook, Supplement No. 62, June (1974) 1-2.

Homer by C. M. Bowra, Classical Outlook, Supplement No. 62, June (1974) 3.

The Theme of the Mutilation of the Corpse in the Iliad by Charles Segal, Classical Outlook, Supplement No. 62, June (1974) 3-4.

Alcaeus by Hubert Martin, Classical Outlook LII (1974) 20-21. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology: Volume 77, Classical Outlook LIII (1975) 32.

Urbanitas: Ancient Sophistication and Refinement by Edwin Ramage, Classical Outlook LIII (1975) 46-47.

Minoan Linear A by David Packard, Classical Outlook LIII (1976) 55.

Studies in Greek and Indic Meter by Gregory Nagy, Classical Outlook LIV (1977) 106- 107.

The New Greek Tragedy in Modern Translation, William Arrowsmith (general editor), Classical Outlook LVI (1979) 64-5.

L’analyse linguistique dans l’antiquité classique, I: Les théories by Marc Baratin and Françoise Desbordes, Historiographia Linguistica X (1983) 309-320.

Ancient Philosophy and Grammar by David L. Blank, Ancient Philosophy 6 (1986) 245- 251. Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Mark Amsler, General Linguistics 31 (1991) 43-53.

Studies on the Text of Suetonius De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus by Robert A. Kaster, and Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity by Giovanni Manetti. Historiographia Linguistica XXI (1994) 202-212.

Derivation: Greek and Roman Views on Word Formation by Jaana Vaahtera. Historiographia Linguistica XXVI (1999) 219-224.

Latin Forms of Address: From Plautus to Apuleius by Eleanor Dickey. New England Classical Journal 31 (2004) 320-322.

A Natural History of Latin by Tore Janson. New England Classical Journal 33 (2006) 245-248.

IV: Miscellaneous

“Report of the Representatives to the American Classical League,” TAPA (Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association) 102 (1971) xli-xliii. (with C. A. Forbes).

Summary Report of the Long Range Planning Task Force. Appleton: Lawrence University 1977. (with J. S. Evans and M. B. Egan).

“Variations on Themes from the First Year of Greek,” Women’s Literary Journal, Lawrence University (1972) 16.

“A Great Day to be a Lawrentian,” Lawrence Today (winter 1982) 6. “A Laurentian Sabbatical,” Lawrence Today (summer 1982) 5.

“Indexing Varro,” Lawrence University Computer Services Newsletter 83.3 (September 1983) 1-2.

“Being There,” Lawrence Today (winter 1984) 15-16.

“Men, Mysteries, and a Manuscript: A Scholarly Whodunit,” Lawrence Today (spring 1988) 12-18.

“On Hatching Plans, locus actionis,” in E. F. Koerner: Bibliography. Bloomington: Eurolingua (1988) 80-81.

“Baseball: America’s Game,” The Laurel of Phi Kappa Tau (summer 1991) 6-8.

“Listening to Baseball,” Appleton Foxes Souvenir Program (1992) 41, 43-45.

“And Here’s the Pitch,” Lawrence Today (spring 1995) 14-15.

Aesop’s Fables??? Editor. Appleton: Lawrence University, 2001.

“A Classics Chronology: Recollections of a Main Hall career as student and teacher,” Lawrence Today (summer 2003) 22-27.

“An Honor Code for Life,” The Montana Professor 17, 1 (fall 2006) 7-10. Daniel J. Taylor is the Hiram A. Jones Professor and Chair of Classics Emeritus at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. Author of two books—Declinatio: A Study of the Linguistic Theory of Marcus Terentius Varro (1974) and Varro De Lingua Latina X: A New Critical Text and English Translation with Prolegomena and Commentary (1996)—and a score of articles on Varro, he has been acknowledged as the leading Varro scholar of his time. He also edited The History of Linguistics in the Classical Period (1987) and has published widely on Greek and Latin grammar, the history of linguistics, and even baseball. He received two year-long research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which he spent in Florence (Italy), and served as the first Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Linguistics at the Universita di Trieste (Italy). Professor Taylor has been honored with the Excellent Teaching Award at Lawrence University, accorded the National Award for Excellence in Teaching the Classics by the American Philological Association, and acclaimed as the Distinguished Foreign Language Educator of the Year by the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers. He graduated with Honors in Classics from Lawrence in 1963 and earned MA (1965) and PhD (1970) degrees from the University of Washington (Seattle). Now retired, he lives in Summit County, Colorado, and serves as a trustee emeritus of the county library.