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For how was it that Axilla was made Ala, except by the flight of the larger letter? and so the elegant usage of Latin conversation takes this letter x out of maxilla, and taxilla, and vexillum, and paxillum. They also joined words by uniting them at their pleasure; so as to say sodes for si audes, sis for si vis. And in this word capsis there are no less than three words.
But whither am I going? I find myself on a new and dangerous path. Pardon, gentle reader, this sudden deviation. Methinks I hear thee saying to me: Tramite quo tendis, majoraque viribus audes. I grant that I have erred, but I will do so no more.
Upon the same principle, two or more words have been contracted into one, as sodes for si audes, sis for si vis, capsis for cape si vis, ain' for aisne, nequire for non quire, malle for magis velle, and nolle for non velle; and we often say dein' and exin' for deinde and exinde.
It is necessary to a fair consideration of the question, that the whole passage in which the words occur should be kept in view: 'Si quid inexpertum scenae committis, et audes Personam formare novam, servetur ad imum Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet. Difficile est propriè communia dicere: tuque Rectiùs Iliacum carmen deducis in actus, Qu
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