Book 15
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But to indicate what those wish to express who use profligatum in the sense of nearly done, those who have spoken good Latin used, not profligatumprofigatum, but adfectum, as for example Marcus Cicero, in the speech which he delivered About the Consular Provinces. His words are as follows: § 19. We see the war nearing its end (adfectum) and, to tell the truth, all but finished. Also further on: § 9. For why should Caesar himself wish to remain longer in that province, except that he may turn over to the State, completed, the tasks which he has nearly finished (acfecta sunt)? Cicero also says in the Oeconomicus: Frag. 21, p. 978, Orelli2. When indeed, as summer is already well nigh ended (adfecta), it is time for the grapes to ripen in the sun.
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An evident mistake in the second book of Cicero On Glory, in the place where he has written about Hector and Ajax.
