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Their proceedings are just as arbitrary as if they
were to substitute an o in the genitives of sulpur
and guttur on the analogy of eboris and roboris.
Thus Antonius Gnipho while admitting robur, ebur
and even marmur to be correct, would have their
plurals to be ebura, robura and marnura.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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