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What of stlocus and stlites?
What of the connexion between t and d, a connexion
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which makes it less surprising that on some of
the older buildings of Rome and certain famous
temples we should find the names Alexanter and
Cassantra? What again of the interchange of o
and u, of which examples may be found in Hecoba,
notrix, Culcides and Pulixena, or to take purely Latin
words dederont and probaueront? So too Odysseus,
which the Aeolian dialect turned into Ulysseus, has
been transformed by us into Ulixes.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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