[12]
For Tinga of Placentia, if
we may believe Hortensius who takes him to task for
it, committed two barbarisms in one word by saying
precula for pergula: that is to say he substituted c
for g, and transposed r and e. On the other hand
[p. 85]
when Ennius writes Mettocoque Fufetioeo,1 where
the barbarism is twice repeated, he is defended on
the plea of poetic licence.
1 The barbarism lies in the use of the old Greek terminationoeo in the genitive.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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