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But interjections must be
added to those already mentioned. Others however follow good authority in asserting that there
are eight parts of speech. Among these I may
mention Aristarchus and in our own day Palaemon,
who classified the vocable or appellation as a species
of the genus noun. Those on the other hand who
distinguish between the noun and the vocable, make
nine parts of speech. But yet again there are
some who differentiate between the vocable and the
appellation, saying that the vocable indicates concrete
objects which can be seen and touched, such as a
“house” or “bed,” while an appellation is something
imperceptible either to sight or touch or to both,
such as the “wind,” “heaven,” or “virtue.” They
added also the asseveration, such as “alas” and the
derivative1 such as fasciatim. But of these classifications I do not approve.
1 Generally interpreted collective: but see Colson, Class. Quart. x. l, p. 17; fasciatim = in bundles (from fascis).
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