Book 9
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From this Titus Manlius, whose battle Quadrigarius described above, all harsh and cruel commands are called Manlian; for at a later time, when he was consul in a war against the Latins, Manlius caused his own son to be beheaded, because he had been sent by his father on a scouting expedition with orders not to fight, There is a lacuna in the text, but this seems to express the general sense. and disregarding the command, had killed one of the enemy who had challenged him.
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That Quadrigarius also, with correct Latinity, used facies as a genitive; and some other observations on the inflection of similar words.
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THE expression that I quoted above from Quintus Claudius, 2 ix. 13. 11 On account of his great size and savage aspect (facies), I have inquired into by examining several old manuscripts, and have found it to be as I wrote it. For it was in that way, as a rule, that the early writers declined the word—facies facies— whereas the rule of grammar now requires faciei as the genitive. But I did find some corrupt manuscripts in which faciei was written, with erasure of the former reading.
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I remember too having found both facies and facii written in the same manuscript of Claudius Frag. 30, Peter2. in the library at Tibur. But facies was written in the text and facii, with double i, in the margin opposite; nor did I regard that as inconsistent with a certain early usage; for from the nominative dies they used both dies and dii as the genitive, and from fames, both famis and fami.
