Etruscans (was: minimal pairs)

[Chester Graham]

  Who is Virgil?

  In Vergilian Latin, the neuter plural was still patently the source of
the collective noun. Previously, in a pre-Latin phase of Italic or
earflier, these Ne-Pl collectives had given origin to feminine singulars of
the 1st declension of.

  Apart from the suggestion here, is there evidence in the Georgics of a
de-haut-en-bas attitude toward rustic speech?

  In the Portuguese of Brazil today, the pronoun
cujo
is current in writing.

  Notoriously, it is not alive in the spoken language.

  All the best

Chester Graham