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Those who raise the question as to whether
a solecism can arise in a single word show greater
intelligence. Is it for instance a solecism if a man
when calling a single person to him says uenite,
or in dismissing several persons says abi or discede?
Or again if the answer does not correspond to the
question: suppose, for example, when someone said
to you “Whom do I see?”, you were to reply “I.”
Some too think it a solecism if the spoken word is
contradicted by the motion of hand or head.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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