id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5428 Old Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 5913 863 65 An opinion concerning Old Latin, of a Roman man of letters in the middle Republic, survives: the historian, Polybius,[8] read "the first treaty between Rome and Carthage", which he says "dates from the consulship of Lucius Junius Brutus and Marcus Horatius, the first consuls after the expulsion of the kings". The end of the republic was too late a termination for compilers after Wordsworth; Charles Edwin Bennett said, "'Early Latin' is necessarily a somewhat vague term ... The Praeneste Fibula, the earliest known specimen of the Latin language and dated to the first half of the seventh century BC. In verb conjugation, the third-person ending -d later became -t, e.g. Old Latin faced > Classical facit. In Classical Latin textbooks the declensions are named from the letter ending the stem or First, Second, etc. In the plural, the locative was captured by the ablative case in all Italic languages before Old Latin.[14] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5428.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5428.txt