Kitap 8
3.30
It is a tiresome kind of affectation; any one can practise it, and it is made all the worse by the fact that the man who catches the infection will not choose his words to suit his facts, but will drag in irrelevant facts to provide an opportunity for the use of such words. The coining of new words is, as I stated in the first book, I. v. 70 more permissible in Greek, for the Greeks did not hesitate to coin nouns to represent certain sounds and emotions, and in truth they were taking no greater liberty than was taken by the first men when they gave names to things.
3.31
Our own writers have ventured on a few attempts at composition and derivation, but have not met with much success. I remember in my young days there was a dispute between Pomponius and Seneca which even found its way into the prefaces of their works, as to whether gradus eliminate Sc. moves his steps beyond the threshold. was a phrase which ought to have been allowed in tragedy. But the ancients had no hesitation about using even expectorate banishes from his heart. and, after all, it presents exactly the same formation as exanimat.
