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Again the teacher of
literature will have to determine whether certain
vowels have not been consonantalised. For instance
iam and etiam are both spelt with an i, uos and tuos
both with a u. Vowels, however, when joined as
vowels, either make one long vowel (compare the
obsolete method of indicating a long vowel by
doubling it as the equivalent of the circumflex),
or a diphthong, though some hold that even three
vowels can form a single syllable; this however is
only possible if one or more assume the role of
consonants.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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