Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 1.4.11

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[11] He will also inquire why it is that there are two vowels which may be repeated, while a consonant can only be followed and modified by a different consonant. ¹ But i can follow i (for coniicit is derived from iacit² ): so too does u, witness the modern spelling of seruus and uulgus. He should also know that Cicero preferred to write aiio and Maaiiam with a double i; in that case one of them is consonantalised.

Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.

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[11] quaeret hoc etiam, quomodo duabus demum vocalibus in se ipsas coeundi natura sit, cum consonantium nulla nisi alteram frangat. atqui littera I sibi insidit, coniicit enim est ab illo iacit, et V, quomodo nunc scribitur uulgus et seruus. sciat etiam Ciceroni placuisse aiio Maiiamque geminata I scribere; quod si est, etiam iungetur ut consonans.

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1. The two vowels are i and u. A consonant cannot be duplicated within one syllable.

2. The derivation is mentioned to show that two i's, not one, are found in the second syllable of coniicit.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 1.4.11

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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