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some wrote ai in all cases,
as in Greek, others confined its use to the dative and
genitive singular; whence it comes that Vergil,1
always a passionate lover of antiquity, inserted pictai
uestis and aquai in his poems.
1 Aen. ix. 26 and vii. 464.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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