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Again in
Cicero's days and a little later, it was the almost
universal practice to write a double s, whenever that
letter occurred between two long vowels or after a
long vowel, as for example in caussae, cassus, diuissiones.
That he and Vergil both used this spelling is shown
by their own autograph manuscripts.
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