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parcissime ea veteres
usi etiam in vocalibus, cum aedos ircosque dicebant;
diu deinde servatum, ne consonantibus aspirarent,
[p. 88]
ut in graccis et in triumpis; erupit brevi tempore
nimius usus, ut choronae, chenturiones, praechones
adhuc quibusdam in inscriptionibus maneant, qua
de re Catulli nobile epigramma est.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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