Antoine Meillet mentored a generation of influential twentieth-century linguists and philologists, including mile Benveniste, Georges Dum zil, and Andr Martinet. One of the most influential comparative linguists of his time, he recognised that language is a social phenomenon, influenced by sociological factors. Originally published in 1933, this third edition of his 1928 history of Latin was the last to be published during his lifetime. In it, Meillet...