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[44] Again, does not Livy near the beginning of his first book write tenuere arcem Sabini1 and later in adversum Romani subiere? But I can produce still better authority. For Cicero in his Orator says, “I have no objection [p. 101] to the form scripsere, though I regard scripserunt as the more correct.”2

1 Liv. I. xii.: “The Sabines held the citadel.” “The Romans marched up the slope against them.”

2 Orat. xlvii. 157.

Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.

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