Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, chapter 5, section 13

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[13] Definition is sometimes required to explain rare or obscure words such as clarigatio¹ or erctum citum,² or again to explain familiar words such as penus³ or litus.⁴

This variety in definition has caused some writers to include it under conjecture, others under quality and others again under legal questions.

1 A formal demand for redress under threat of war.

2 An undivided inheritance.

3 Store of provisions.

4 Shore, see v. xiv. 34, where its derivation is explained as qua fiuctus eludit.

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

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