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And afterwards he has, "Stilphonem, inquam, noveras?" Siet is the word at full length; sit is the contracted form. One may use either; and so we find in the same passage, "Quam cara sint, quae post carendo intelligunt, Quamque attinendi magni dominatus sient." Nor should I find fault with "Scripsere alii rem."
Others think that ceremonies are so named a carendo, of abstaining from certain things, as the Jews abstained from swine’s flesh, and sundry other things forbidden by God as unclean. Ceremonies are outward acts of religion,” &c.
Terence, therefore, has made use of both, as when he says, eho tu cognatum tuum non noras? and afterwards, Stilphonem, inquam, noveras? Thus also, fiet is a perfect verb, and fit a contracted one; and accordingly we find in the same Comedian, Quam cara SINTQUE post carendo intelligunt, and Quamque attinendi magni dominatus SIENT.
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