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Many new words have been
coined in imitation of the Greeks,1 more especially
by Verginius Flavus, some of which, such as queens and
essentia, are regarded as unduly harsh. But I see no
reason why we should treat them with such contempt,
except, perhaps, that we are highly self-critical and
suffer in consequence from the poverty of our
language. Some new formations do, however, succeed
in establishing themselves.
1 See II. xiv. 2.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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