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Substitution is however
sometimes admitted even in prose, as for instance
when Cicero speaks of the army of Canopus which is
locally styled Canobus, while the number of authors
who have been guilty of transposition in writing
Trasumennus for Tarsumennus has succeeded in standardising the error. Similar instances may be quoted.
If adsentior be regarded as the correct form, we must
remember that Sisenna said adsentio, and that many
have followed him on the ground of analogy: on
the other hand, if adsentio is the correct form, we
must remember that adsentior has the support of
current usage.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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