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And the like in their subtlety in judging; for who would think he were no Christian that should say these two speeches "matula putes" and "matula putet," or "ollae fervere" and "ollam fervere" were not both good Latin, unless their wisdoms had taught us the contrary? who had delivered the church from such mists of error, which yet no one ever met with, had they not come out with some university seal for it?
These usages are not found in the other works ascribed to Tacitus, nor any of the ancient Latin prose-writers; though common enough in the poets, the three instances being found in Virgil; the first in the Aeneid: "Cum litora fervere late Prospiceres arce ex summa:" Aen. "Vespere ab atro Consurgunt venti:" Aen. And "Graditur bellum ad crudele Camilla:" Ib.
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