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(alternating right-to-left and left-to-right), albeit irregularly: reading from top to bottom, lines 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16 run from right to left; lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13, and 15, from left to right; 8, 9, and 16 are upside down. (From a rubbing by Domenico Comparetti .)]] Old Latin (also called '''Early Latin''' or '''Archaic Latin''') refers to the period of Latin texts before the age of Classical Latin . Phonological characteristics of older Latin are the case endings ''-os'' and ''-om'' (later Latin ''-us'' and ''-um''), as well as the existence of 's ''lases'' for '' Lares ''. Notable Old Latin fragments:
Writers of later, but still early Latin:
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