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Chommodious Arrius would say, whenever he wanted to say commodious, and for
insidious hinsidious, and then hoped that he had spoken with accent wondrous
fine, when aspirating hinsidious to the full of his lungs. I believe that his
mother, his free uncle, his maternal grandfather and grandmother all spoke thus.
When he was sent to Syria, everyone's
ears were rested, hearing these words spoken smoothly and slightly, nor after
that did folk fear such words from him, when suddenly is brought the horrible
news that th' Ionian waves, after Arrius had come there, no longer are Ionian,
but are now the Hionian Hocean.
Catullus. The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus. Leonard C. Smithers. London. Smithers. 1894.
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