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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.
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?
21. -Quam lepide legeis compostae ut tesserulae omnes Arte pavimento atque emblemate vermiculato-. The poet advises him -Quo facetior videare et scire plus quant ceteri -to say not -pertaesum- but -pertisum-. IV. III. Its Suspension by Scipio Aemilianus