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nostri praeceptores seruum ceruumque u et o litteris scripserunt, quia subiecta sibi
vocalis in unum sonum coalescere et confundi
nequiret; nunc u gemina scribuntur ea ratione,
quam reddidi; neutro sane modo vox, quam sentimus, efficitur. nec inutiliter Claudius Aeolicam
illam ad hos usus litteram adiecerat.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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