[18]
for
from what else can frugalitas be formed? They may
also be allowed to point out that phrases such as
centum milia nummum and fidem deum1 involve a
[p. 121]
double solecism, since they change both case and
number. Of course we were in blank ignorance
of the fact and were not simply conforming to usage
and the demands of elegance, as in the numerous
cases, with which Cicero deals magnificently, as
always, in his Orator.2
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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