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But in the dative case those who spoke the best Latin did not use the form faciei, which is now current, but facie. For example, Lucilius in his Satires: 1257, Marx, who fills out the second line with naturae dotibus aetas; tantis,w. Which first is joined to a fair face And youth. And in his seventh book: 269, Marx. Who loves you, and who to your youth and charms (facie), Plays courtier, promising to be your friend. However, there are not a few who read facii in both these passages of Lucilius. But Gaius Caesar, in the second book of his treatise On Analogy, ii, p. 129, Dinter. thinks that we should use die and specie as genitive forms.
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I have also found die in the genitive case in a manuscript of Sallust's Jugurtha of the utmost trustworthiness and of venerable age. These were the words: Jug. xcvii. 3 when scarcely a tenth part of the day (die) was left. For I do not think we ought to accept such a quibble as the assertion that die is used for ex die.
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On the kind of debate which the Greeks call a)/poros.
