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by
omission, in phrases such as ambulo viam, Aegypto
venio, or ne hoc fecit: and by transposition as in
quoque ego, enim hoc voluit, aulem non habuit.1 Under
this last head comes the question whether igitur can
be placed first in a sentence: for I note that authors
of the first rank disagree on this point, some of
them frequently placing it in that position, others
never.
1 i.e. nam cannot he coupled with enim; de being a preposition cannot govern an adverb (“from above”); in is not required with Alexandriam, which is the name of a town. Quoque, enim and autem cannot come first in a sentence Ambulo per viam, ab Aegypto venio, ne hoc quidem fecit would be the correct Latin.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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