Ziogas, I. (2021) 'Etymological Law.', Incontri di filologia classica, 19 . pp. 179-200.
Abstract
The origins of law coincide with the origins of language, as both Plato and Horace highlight. Thus, a systematic attempt to discover the etymological roots of words simultaneously reveals the source of legality. The article examines the etymological doctrina (‘learning’) of poets vis-à-vis the etymological reasoning of learned jurists. The Twelve Tables, Catullus, and Labeo engage in similar etymological pursuits. Ovid’s Byblis responds to Labeo’s etymologies. The jurist Ulpian echoes the poetics of Latin love elegy. Lawyers and poets meet on the common ground of etymology in their attempts to lay down the law.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download PDF (140Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | http://hdl.handle.net/10077/32056 |
| Publisher statement: | © Copyright 2021 – EUT EDIZIONI UNIVERSITÀ DI TRIESTE |
| Date accepted: | No date available |
| Date deposited: | 10 May 2021 |
| Date of first online publication: | 2021 |
| Date first made open access: | 10 May 2021 |
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