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[66] For I will not admit that the combination of three is possible at any rate in Latin, although Cicero asserts that capsis1 is compounded of cape si vis, and there are to be found scholars who contend that Lupercalia likewise is a compound of three parts of speech, namely luere per caprum.

1 Orat. xlv. 154.

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