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Nor
again shall I be in a hurry to regard it as a proof of
real diligence, if he points out that there are irregular nouns of the kind called epicene by the Greeks,
in which one gender implies both, or which in spite
of being feminine or neuter in form indicate males
or females respectively, as for instance Muraena
and Glycerium.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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