Excerpt from Varronianus a Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of Ancient Italy and to the Philological Study of the Latin Language

This work, as it originally appeared, was a first attempt to discuss the comparative philology of the Latin Language on the broad basis of general Ethnography, and to show historically how the classical idiom of ancient Rome resulted from the absorption or centralisation of the other dialects spoken in the Peninsula. My motto was: licet omnia Italica pro Romanis habeam; and I did not content myself with a survey of the Italian races, but endeavoured to prove that the elements of this cisalpine population might be recognised in the Scythia of Herodotus, either in juxta-position or in some degree of fusion; and thus, that they might be traced back to the primary settlements of the Indo-Germanic family.

In maintaining the composite structure of the Latin language, I assert also that the different elements, of which it is made up, are to be found in the fragmentary languages which have come down to us.

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