[60]
He will also praise the
patriotism of those who aimed at strengthening the
Latin language and asserted that we had no need
of foreign practices. They, therefore, pronounced
Castorem with the second syllable long to bring it
into conformity with all those Latin nouns which
have the same termination in the nominative as
[p. 107]
Castor. They also insisted on the forms Palaemo,
Telamo, and Plato (the last being adopted by Cicero),
because they could not find any Latin nouns ending
in -on.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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