原文 (英語)

Early inhabitants of Italy--Italic dialects--Latin--Latin alphabet--Later innovations--Pronunciation--Spelling--Early Monuments--Song of Fratres Arvales--Salian Hymn--Law of Romulus--Laws of Twelve Tables--Treaty between Rome and Carthage--_Columna Rastrata_--Epitaphs of the Scipios-- _Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus_--Break-up of the language. APPENDIX.--Examples of late corrupted dialects