Les latinismes dans les textes hippiatriques grecs

The study of late Latin can be carried out not only from Latin texts, but also through contemporary Greek texts, which contain a lot of syntactic and lexical latinisms. Greek Hippiatrica are a good example, because some of the technical terms (in botanical, medical, military fields) are latinisms, which came from latin writers who we don’t necessarily know. Most of those Latinisms are given with an equivalent Greek translation, because the readers of those treatises had to know pathological or botanical names in utraque lingua, when making a pharmacological purchase or in discussions with roman veterinaries. The cavalry of the roman army was certainly a place of linguistical contact about the horses and their treatments.Gitton-Ripoll Valérie. Les latinismes dans les textes hippiatriques grecs. In: Latin vulgaire – latin tardif IX. Actes du IXe colloque international sur le latin vulgaire et tardif, Lyon 2-6 septembre 2009. Lyon : Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012. pp. 837-850. (Collection de la Maison de l'Orient méditerranéen ancien. Série philologique, 49