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Even Sallust, who is most observant of propriety in the use of words, has yielded to custom and applied the term law to the privilege which was passed with reference to the return of Gnaeus Pompeius. The passage, from the second book of his Histories, reads as follows: ii. 21, Maur. For when Sulla, as consul, proposed a law (legem) touching his return, the tribune of the commons, Gaius Herennius, had vetoed it by previous arrangement.
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Why Marcus Cicero very scrupulously avoided any use of the words novissime and novissimus.
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IT is clear that Marcus Cicero was unwilling to use many a word which is now in general circulation, and was so in his time, because he did not approve of them; for instance, novissimus and novissine. For although both Marcus Cato Fr. inc. 51, Jordan. and Sallust, Cat. xxxiii. 2; Jug. x. 2; xix. 7, etc. as well as others also of the same period, have used that word generally, and although many men besides who were not without learning wrote it in their books, yet he seems to have abstained from it, on the ground that it was not good Latin, since Lucius Aelius Stilo, p. 53, 15, Fun. who was the most learned man of his time, had avoided its use, as that of a novel and improper word.
