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For example whether amarae corticis1 or
medio cortice2 contains a solecism in gender (and
personally I object to neither, as Vergil is the
author of both; however, for the sake of argument
let us assume that one of the two is incorrect), still
whichever phrase is incorrect, it can be set right by
the alteration of the word in which the fault lies:
that is to say we can emend either to amari corticis
or media cortice. But it is obvious that these critics
misrepresent the case. For neither word is faulty
in itself; the error arises from its association with
another word. The fault therefore lies in the
phrase.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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