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On that point then I trust a book of great age and authority. For the fact that the line of Plautus has sectius quam somnia lends no weight to the opposite opinion. However, even if the men of old did say insece and not inseque, I suppose because it was lighter and smoother, yet the two words seem to have the same meaning. For sequo and sequor and likewise secta and sectio differ in the manner of their use, but anyone who examines them closely will find that their derivation and meaning are the same.
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The teachers also and interpreters of Greek words think that in a)/ndra moi e)/nnepe, Mou=sa, Odyss. i. 1. and e)/spete nu=n moi, Mou=sai, Iliad ii. 484, etc. e)/nnepe, and e)/spete are expressed by the Latin word inseque; for they say that in one word the n is doubled, in the other changed to s. And they also say that the word e)/ph, which means words or verses, can he derived only a)po\ tou= e(/pesqai kai\ tou= ei)pei=n, that is from follow and say. Therefore for the same reason our forefathers called narrations and discourses insectiones.
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That those persons are in error who think that in testing for fever the pulse of the veins is felt, and not that of the arteries.
