[20]
Older
authors used it but rarely even before vowels, saying
aedus or ircus, while its conjunction with consonants
was for a long time avoided, as in words such as
[p. 89]
Graccus or triumpus. Then for a short time it broke
out into excessive use, witness such spelling as chorona,
chenturia or praecho, which may still be read in certain
inscriptions: the well-known epigram of Catullus1
will be remembered in this connexion.
1 Cat. Ixxxi.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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