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Still we say Orcivii, and Matones and Otones, Coepiones, sepulchra, coronas, lacrymas, because that pronunciation is always sanctioned by the judgment of our ears. Ennius always used Burrum, never Pyrrhum: he says, "Vi patefecerunt Bruges;" not Phryges; and so the old copies of his poems prove, for they had no Greek letters in them.
But we still say, without any hesitation, Orcivios, Matones, Otones, coepiones, sepulcra, coronas, and lacrymas, because the ear allows it. Ennius always uses Burrum, and never Pyrrhum; and the ancient copies of the same author have Vi patefecerunt BRUGES,
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