Word: quintilian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ignis Eliciendi Modus apvd Antiqvos, scripsit Morris H. Morgan. On the Origin of the Construction of me with the Subjunctive and the Future Indicative, by William W. Goodwin. On some disputed Points in the Construction of edei, chren, etc., with the Infinitive, by William W. Goodwin. Notes on Quintilian, by George M. Lane. Some Latin Etymologies, by James B. Greenough. On Egregium Publicum' (Tac. Ann. III. 70. 4), by Clement Lawrence Smith. On the use of the Perfect Infinitive in Latin with the Force of the Present, by Albert A. Howard. Plutarch perienthumias, by Harold N. Fowler. Vitruviana, by George...
...taught at Harvard, would sound like burlesque to those who learned Latin 20 or 30 years ago. Veni, vidi, vici, is pronounced wanee, wedee, weeke. This revolution is due to Prof. George M. Lane, who thinks he finds his authority for it in a careful study of Quintilian. - Cornell...
Well, I'll tell you briefly what I did in my papers, and then you can judge for yourself whether I ought to be astonished or not. First came the Latin at sight. I had only read, in addition to the common authors, Ennius, Varro, Quintilian, Lucilius, Martial, Juvenal, and some twenty others. With this imperfect preparation I soon saw that I could do nothing, and was about to leave the room in despair, when it came into my head that the examiners were said to admire above all things originality. Now I am original or nothing. I determined...