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[34] For words which now are old, once were new, and there are some words in use which are of quite recent origin, such as
reatus,
1
invented by Messala, and
munerarius,
2
invented by Augustus. So, too, my own teachers still persisted in banning the use of words, such as
piratica, musica and
fabrica, while Cicero regards
favor and
urbanus as but newly introduced into the language. For in a letter to Brutus he says,
eum amorer et eum, ut hoc
verbo utar, favored in consilium advocabo,
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Institutio Oratoria. Quintilian. Harold Edgeworth Butler (Translator). Cambridge, Mass.. 1920-1922.
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