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while to
Appius Pulcher he writes, le hominem non solum sapientem, verum etiam, ut nunc loquimur, urbanum.1 He
also thinks that Terence was the first to use the
word obsequium, while Caecilius asserts that Sisenna
was the first to use the phrase albente caelo.2 Hortensius seems to have been the first to use cervix in
the singular, since the ancients confined themselves
to the plural. We must not then be cowards, for I
cannot agree with Celsus when he forbids orators to
coin new words.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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