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Fordvs and Fordicidia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. Whatmough
Affiliation:
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Extract

Fordvs is usually regarded as containing the root of fero bher- ‘carry’; i.e. fordus stands for *foridus ‘pregnant’, like Gr. ϕορóν -óν in medical writers. Its by-form hordus therefore is held to be a dialect form, and was according to that view rightly assigned by Conway, along with some other and quite certain examples of pure Latin f- = dial. h- for I.-Eu. bh- (or dh-), to one of the dialects of the Latinian group; Conway's choice fell upon Faliscan, but that is a different question from the one under discussion.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1921

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page 109 note 1 Verg. Ecl. VIII. 58 mistranslates Theocr. I. 134; Ecl. X. 39, I think, mistranslates Theocr. X. 28; Aen. IX. 175 (probably), Homer Il. II. 781 sqq., Cicero, Tusc. II. 8. 20Google Scholar mistranslates Soph. Trach, 1055.

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