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[161] quin etiam, quod iam subrusticum videtur, olim autem politius, eorum verborum, quorum eaedem erant postremae duae litterae, quae sunt in optimus, postremam litteram detrahebant, nisi vocalis insequebatur. Ita non erat ea offensio in versibus quam nunc fugiunt poetae novi. Sic1 enim loquebamur2:
qui est omnibu3' princeps
non omnibus4 princeps, et:
vita illa dignu5' locoque
[p. 2053] non dignus. Quod si indocta consuetudo tam est artifex suavitatis, quid ab ipsa tandem arte et doctrina postulari putamus?

1 sic A: ita L

2 loquebamur AL: loquebantur ed. Rom.

3 omnibu A: omnibus L

4 omnib. A : omnium L

5 dignu A: dignum L

M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica, Tomus II. A. S. Wilkins. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1911. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.

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