[6]
Again our teacher must
not tolerate the affected pronunciation of s1 with
which we are painfully familiar, nor suffer words
to be uttered from the depths of the throat or
[p. 187]
rolled out hollow-mouthed, or permit the natural
sound of the voice to be over-laid with a fuller
sound, a fault fatal to purity of speech; the
Greeks give this peculiarity the name καταπεπλασμένον (plastered over), a term applied to the
tone produced by a pipe,
1 Quintilian perhaps alludes to the habit of prefixing i to initial st, sp, sc found in inscriptions of the later Empire. See Lindsay, op. cit. p. 102.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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