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So too
we get the Latinised genitives Ulixi and Achilli together with many other analogous forms. More recent
scholars have instituted the practice of giving Greek
nouns their Greek declension, although this is not
always possible. Personally I prefer to follow the
Latin method, so far as grace of diction will permit.
For I should not like to say Calypsonem on the analogy
of Iunonem, although Gaius Caesar in deference to
antiquity does adopt this way of declining it. Current
practice has however prevailed over his authority.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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