Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, chapter 3, section 26

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[26] What need have we of acrumnosum?¹ It is surely enough to call a thing horridum. Reor may be tolerated, autumo² smacks of tragedy, proles³ has become a rarity, while prosapia⁴ stamps the man who uses it as lacking taste. Need I say more Almost the whole language has changed.

1 Wretched.

2 Assert.

3 Offspring.

4 Stock, family.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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