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There is
another still more common error, which is less easy
of detection. Language possesses certain imperceptible stresses, indeed we might almost call them
feet, to which the gesture of most speakers conforms.
Thus there will he one movement at novum crimen,
another at Giai Caesar, a third at et ante diem,
a fourth at non auditum, a fifth at propinquus meus, a
sixth at ad te and others at Quintus Tubero and
detulit.1
1 pro Lig. i. 1. “It is a new charge, Gaius Caesar, a chartgo hitherto, unheard of, that my kinsman, Quintus Tubero, has brought to your notice.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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