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For words which now
are old, once were new, and there are some words in
use which are of quite recent origin, such as reatus,1
invented by Messala, and munerarius,2 invented by
Augustus. So, too, my own teachers still persisted
in banning the use of words, such as piratica, musica
and fabrica, while Cicero regards favor and urbanus
as but newly introduced into the language. For in
a letter to Brutus he says, eum amorer et eum, ut hoc
[p. 231]
verbo utar, favored in consilium advocabo,3
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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