Nerei repandirostrum incurvticervicum pecs:
The flockthe effect is unpleasing.
Of Nereus snout-uplifted, neck-inarched
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As for Solitaurilia
it is by now universally believed to stand for
Suovelaurilia, a derivation which corresponds to the
actual sacrifice, which has its counterpart in Homer1
as well. But these compounds are formed not so
much from three words as from the fragments of
three. On the other hand Pacuvius seems to have
formed compounds of a preposition and two vocables
(i.e. nouns) as in
1 As in Od. xi. 130. The word means sacrifices of a pig, sheep and bull.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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