Book 12
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Aeditimus So the MSS.; aeditumus is a variant spelling. is a Latin word and an old one at that, formed in the same way as finitimus and legilimus. In place of it many to-day say aedituus by a new and false usage, as if it were derived from guarding the temples. That is, from aedes and tueor. This ought to be enough to say as a warning There is a lacuna in the text. . . . because of certain rude and persistent disputants, who are not to be restrained except by the citation of authorities.
