the other restricts it to a part of speech such as lego and scribo. To avoid this ambiguity, some authorities prefer the terms voces, locutiones, dictiones.Once supply the thought,
And words will follow swift as soon as soughtArs Poetica, 311.
[2]
The observance of these rules
is concerned with either one or more words. I must
now be understood to use verbum in its most general
sense. It has of course two meanings; the one covers
all the parts of which language is composed, as in
the line of Horace:
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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