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They were reluctant even to permit
masculine Greek nouns to end in -as in the nominative case, and consequently in Caelius we find Pelia
cincinnatus and in Messala bene fecit Euthia, and in
Cicero Hermagora.1 So we need not be surprised
that the majority of early writers said Aenea and
Anchisa.
1 This form does not actually occur in Cicero, MSS. evidently wrongly giving Hermagaras.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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