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But such words
must be used sparingly and must not thrust themselves upon our notice, since there is nothing more
tiresome than affectation, nor above all must they be
drawn from remote and forgotten ages: I refer to
words such as topper, “quite,” antegerio, “exceedingly,” exanclare, “to exhaust,” prosapia, “a race”
and the language of the Salian Hymns now scarcely
understood by its own priests.
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