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The Scipionic Inscriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Tenney Frank
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Historians and grammarians, palaeographers, and epigraphers have long employed the Scipionic inscriptions as providing accurate data for the period of about 200 B.C. A recent article, however, appearing in this journal, written by the distinguished grammarian, Professor Fay, just before his untimely death, questions the authenticity of these inscriptions, chiefly on grammatical grounds. The inscriptions are so important that it might be well to consider carefully the validity of such arguments in the light of other evidence before we surrender these landmarks of republican history and language.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 15 , Issue 3-4 , July 1921 , pp. 169 - 171
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1921

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page 169 note 1 There seems to be an historical difficulty in this assumption. Two grandsons of Barbatus (cons. 298) were killed in Spain in 212. It is doubtful whether any grandson of his survived till 200—at any rate, no son could have been living at that time.

page 170 note 1 I discuss only the forms that are definitely questioned.