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If they
would only pay attention to the affinities existing
between letters, they would realize that robur makes
its genitive roboris in precisely the same way that
limes, miles, iudex and uindex make their genitives
militis, limitis, iudicis and uindicis, not to mention other
words to which I have already referred.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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