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Excerpt from Rhotacism in the Old Italian Languages, and the Exceptions
The testimony of well-authenticated inscriptions would of course be the best possible, but even here it would have to be considered whether particular reasons had contributed to pre serve the older form, after the ordinary speech had suffered the change. Of the two instances furnished us by inscriptions, one presents no difficulty. Lases is vouched for not only, by this inscription, but by Varro and Festus as well. The song of the Arval Brothers, which is preserved to us in a copy of 218 A. D., is undoubtedly one of the oldest monuments of the lan guage, and there is no difficulty in ascribing the song to th? time before the Papirius or the Claudius to whom tradition as cribes the introduction of the r.
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