[31]
Our
own writers have ventured on a few attempts at
composition and derivation, but have not met with
[p. 229]
much success. I remember in my young days there
was a dispute between Pomponius and Seneca which
even found its way into the prefaces of their works,
as to whether gradus eliminate1 was a phrase which
ought to have been allowed in tragedy. But the
ancients had no hesitation about using even expectorate2
and, after all, it presents exactly the same formation
as exanimat.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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