Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 1.6.18

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[18] for from what else can frugalitas be formed? They may also be allowed to point out that phrases such as centum milia nummum and fidem deum¹ involve a double solecism, since they change both case and number. Of course we were in blank ignorance of the fact and were not simply conforming to usage and the demands of elegance, as in the numerous cases, with which Cicero deals magnificently, as always, in his Orator. ²

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

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[18] iidem centum milia nummum et fidem Deum ostendant duplices quoque soloecismos esse, quando et casum mutant et numerum; nesciebamus enim ac non consuetudini et decori serviebamus, sicut in plurimis, quae M. Tullius in Oratore divine ut omnia exequitur.

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1. i.e. nummum and deum should, strictly speaking, be accus. singular.

2. xlvi. 155.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 1.6.18

Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator)

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