Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 1.5.39

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[39] by omission, in phrases such as ambulo viam, Aegypto venio, or ne hoc fecit: and by transposition as in quoque ego, enim hoc voluit, aulem non habuit.¹ Under this last head comes the question whether igitur can be placed first in a sentence: for I note that authors of the first rank disagree on this point, some of them frequently placing it in that position, others never.

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

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[39] transmutatione, qua ordo turbatur, quoque ego, enim hoc voluit, autem non habuit. ex quo genere an sit igitur initio sermonis positum, dubitari potest, quia maximos auctores in diversa fuisse opinione video, cum apud alios sit etiam frequens, apud alios nunquam reperiatur.

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1. i.e. nam cannot he coupled with enim; de being a preposition cannot govern an adverb (

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); in is not required with Alexandriam, which is the name of a town. Quoque, enim and autem cannot come first in a sentence Ambulo per viam, ab Aegypto venio, ne hoc quidem fecit would be the correct Latin.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 1.5.39

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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