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But all are not agreed that we should use senatui in the dative case rather than senatu. For example, Lucilius in that same case uses victu and ann, and not victui and anui, in these verses: 1288, Marx. Since you to honest fare (victu) do waste and feasts prefer, and in another place: 280, Marx. I'm doing harm to the old girl (anu). Vergil also in the dative case writes aspectu and not aspecui: Aen. vi. 465. Withdraw not from our view (aspectu) and in the Georgics: iv. 198. Nor give themselves to love's embrace (concubitu). Gaius Caesar too, a high authority on the Latin language, says in his Speech against Cato: ii. p. 136, Dinter. owing to the arrogance, haughtiness and tyranny dominateu) of one man. Also in the First Action against Dolabella, Book I: ii. p. 121, Dinter; O. R. F.2, p. 410. Those in whose temples and shrines they had been placed for an honour and an adornment (ornatu). ii. p. 129, Dinter. Also, in his books on analogy he decides that i should be omitted in all such forms.
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A discussion of the natural quantity of certain particles, the long pronunciation of which, when prefixed to verbs, seems to be barbarous and ignorant; with several examples and explanations.
