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He must not be content with knowing only those
changes introduced by conjugation and prefixes,
such as secat secuit, cadit excidit, caedit excīdit, calcat
exculcat, to which might be added lotus from lauare
and again inlotus with a thousand others. He must
learn as well the changes that time has brought
about even in nominatives. For just as names like
Valesius and Fusius have become Valerius and Furius,
so arbos, labos, vapos and even clamos and lases1
were the original forms.
1 i.e. of lares.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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