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Mihi quidem numquam persuaderi potuit animos dum in corporibus essent mortalibus vivere, cum excessissent ex eis emori; nec vero tum animum esse insipientem cum ex insipienti corpore evasisset, sed cum omni admixtione corporis liberatus purus et integer esse coepisset, tum esse sapientem.
INSIPIENTEM: in Xen. αφρων, i.e. without power of thinking. SED: 'but rather that .... HOMINIS NATURA: a periphrasis for homo; cf. Fin. 5, 33 intellegant, si quando naturam hominis dicam, hominem dicere me; nihil enim hoc differt. Cf. Lessing, How the Ancients Represented Death. ATQUI: see n. on 6.
At other times it changes one of the subsequent letters; as when we say insipientem for insapientem, iniquum for inaequum, tricipitem for tricapitem, and concisum for concaesum: and from hence some have ventured to say pertisum for pertaesum, which custom has never warranted. But what can be more delicate than our changing even the natural quantity of our syllables to humour the ear?
XLVIII. What are we to say of compound words? How neat is it to say insipientem, not insapientem; iniquum, not incequum; tricipitem, not tricapitem; concisum, not concoesum! and, because of this last instance, some people wish also to say pertisum; but the same fashion which regulates the other changes, has not sanctioned this one.
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