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Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics
Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †
[NOWELE 71:2] 2018
► pp. 236–248

Another hypothesis concerning the grammar and meaning of Inter eils goticum

| St. Petersburg State University
In the Germanic part of the epigram, Inter eils goticum scapia matzia ia drincan, preserved in Codex Salmasianus, it seems most reasonable to isolate scapia and gloss it as the 1st person sg. of the verb corresponding to Gothic skapjan ‘make’.

Intereilsgoticum scapiamatzia iadrincan

Non audet quisquam dignos edicere uersus.

Calliope madido trepidat se iungere Baccho,

Ne pedibus non stet ebria Musa suis.

Anthologia Latina 285

(Riese 1869: 187) [1] 1
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The Germanic insertion
    • 2.1The meaning of the epigram
    • 2.2The Germanic forms
    • 2.3Scapia matzia ia drincan
  • 3.Another possibility
    • 3.1Roman-Germanic contacts
    • 3.2The meter
    • 3.3Morphology: scapia and gaskapjan*
    • 3.4Syntax
  • 4.Translation
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 21 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00014.kle
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