“Britain's Thucydides,
”
[27]
But there
are still some old words that are endeared to us by
[p. 227]
their antique sheen, while there are others that we
cannot avoid using occasionally, such, for example, as
nuncupare and fari:1 there are yet others which it
requires some daring to use, but which may still be
employed so long as we avoid all appearance of that
affectation which Virgil2 has derided so cleverly:
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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