ouls

Latin

Pronunciation

Preposition

ouls (+ accusative)

  1. (Old Latin, dubious) alternative form of ūls
    • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.50, ("ouls" is an emendation proposed by Müller 1833; manuscripts have readings such as "ouis" or "oius"):[1][2]
      In Sacris Argeorum scriptum sic est:
      Oppius mons, princeps ⟨Es⟩quili⟨i⟩s ouls lucum Facutalem; sinistra via secundum m⟨o⟩erum est.
      • 1938 translation by Roland Kent
        In the Sacrifices of the Argei there is the following record:
        Oppian Hill: first shrine, on the Esquiline, beyond the Beech Grove; it is on the left side of the street along the wall.

References

  1. ^ Karl Otfried Müller (1833) M. Terenti Varronis De lingua Latina librorum quae supersunt emendata et annotata, page 20
  2. ^ Kent, Roland G. (1938) Varro, On the Latin Language, volume I, Harvard University Press, page 46