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CLASSICAL TOUR
18?
Potesse, &c.
Pis.
Cicero uses the habessit, whence the Italian
avesse, as an ancient and legal form. Separa*
tim nemo habessit deos.—De Leo-ibus ii. 8.
He elsewhere notices the custom which he
himself once indulged in, and afterwards cor-
rected as faulty, of sometimes omitting the as-
pirate H, now universally suppressed in Italian.
—-Orator 48.
The following passage from Varro (quoted
by Muratori) gives the origin of an Italian
word tagliar e, which without such authority, we
should scarce have suspected of being derived
from Latin.—Nunc Intertaleare rustica voce di-
citur dividere vel excidere ramum ex utraque
parte aequalibiter praecisum quas alii Calbulas
alii Faleas appellant,
In Pliny the Elder we find the word latamen,
in Italian letame.—Hist. Nat. xviii. c. 16.
DECLINE OF LATIN.
Suetonius (in Augusto, 88) alludes to various
peculiarities of Augustus, both in writing and
18?
Potesse, &c.
Pis.
Cicero uses the habessit, whence the Italian
avesse, as an ancient and legal form. Separa*
tim nemo habessit deos.—De Leo-ibus ii. 8.
He elsewhere notices the custom which he
himself once indulged in, and afterwards cor-
rected as faulty, of sometimes omitting the as-
pirate H, now universally suppressed in Italian.
—-Orator 48.
The following passage from Varro (quoted
by Muratori) gives the origin of an Italian
word tagliar e, which without such authority, we
should scarce have suspected of being derived
from Latin.—Nunc Intertaleare rustica voce di-
citur dividere vel excidere ramum ex utraque
parte aequalibiter praecisum quas alii Calbulas
alii Faleas appellant,
In Pliny the Elder we find the word latamen,
in Italian letame.—Hist. Nat. xviii. c. 16.
DECLINE OF LATIN.
Suetonius (in Augusto, 88) alludes to various
peculiarities of Augustus, both in writing and