Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator), 8.3.32

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[32] Of the coining of words by expansion and inflexion we have examples, such as the Ciceronian ¹ beatitas and beatitudo, forms which he feels to be somewhat harsh, though he thinks they may be softened by use. Derivatives may even be fashioned from proper names, quite apart from ordinary words, witness Sullaturit² in Cicero and Fimbriatus and Figulatus³ in Asinius.

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

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[32] at tractu et declinatione talia sunt, qualia apud Ciceronem beatitas et beatitudo; quae dura quidem sentit esse, verumtamen usu putat posse molliri. nec a verbis modo, sed a nominibus quoque derivata sunt quaedam, ut a Cicerone sullaturit ab Asinio fimbriatum et figulatum .

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Institutio Oratoria

1. De Nat. D. I. xxxiv. 95.

2. a Att. IX. x. 6.

Desires to be a second Sulla.

3. Metamorphosed into Figulus. Presumably refers to Clusinius Figulus, see VII. ii. 26.

Quintilian Institutio Oratoria 8.3.32

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