turn te flagranti deiectum fulmine Plaethon.2
[17]
I merely mention these as
instances: I do not wish anyone to think that I
have added a fresh problem to a subject into which
the obstinacy of pedants has already introduced
confusion.
The faults which arise in the course of actual
speaking require greater penetration on the part
of the critic, since it is impossible to cite examples
from writing, except in cases where they occur
in poetry, as when the diphthong is divided into
two syllables in Europai and Asiai1; or when the
opposite fault occurs, called synaeresis or synaloephe
by the Greeks and complexio by ourselves: as an
example I may quote the line of Publius Varro:
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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