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I would suggest that the ripe scholar, who says “ave”
without the aspirate and with a long e (for it comes
from avēre and uses calefacere and conservavisse in
preference to the usual forms,1 should also add face,
dice and the like to his vocabulary.
1 For havĕ, calfacere, conservasse.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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