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A still stronger indication of the inferiority of Latin
is to be found in the fact that there are many things
which have no Latin names, so that it is necessary
to express them by metaphor or periphrasis, while
even in the case of things which have names, the
extreme poverty of the language leads us to resort
to the same practice.1 On the other hand, the
Greeks have not merely abundance of words, but
they have also a number of different dialects.
1 I.e. because the names are not holly adequate and there are no satisfactory synonyms.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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