Ofortunatam natam me consule Romam.
See XI. i. 24. 2
[41]
Care must also be
taken that the last syllables of one word are not
identical with the opening syllables of the next. In
case any of my readers should wonder that I think
it worth while to lay down such a rule, I may point
out that Cicero makes such a slip in his Letters, in
[p. 531]
the sentence res mihi invisae visae sunt, Brute,1 and
in the following line of verse,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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