Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 1.5.65

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[65] Compound words are formed by the prefix of a preposition as in innocens, though care must be taken that two conflicting prepositions are not prefixed as in imperterritus:¹ if this be avoided they may in certain cases have a double prefix as in incompositus or reconditus or the Ciceronian subabsurdtim. They may also be formed by what I might term the combination of two independent units, as in maleficus.

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

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[65] simplices voces prima positione id est natura sua constant, compositae aut praepositionibus subiunguntur ut innocens (dum ne pugnantibus inter se duabus, quale est inperterritus; alioqui possunt aliquando continuari duae ut incompositus, reconditus et quo Cicero utitur subabsurdum ), aut e duobus quasi corporibus coalescunt, ut maleficus.

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1. Quintilian regards the negative in as a preposition. His objection to imperterritus (which is used by Vergil) seems to lie in the fact that while interritus is a natural way of expressing

unterrified,

it is unreasonable to negative perterritus, which means

thoroughly terrified.

The presence of the intensifying per conflicts with the force of the negative in.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 1.5.65

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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