The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, Now First Collected And Revised, With a Life of the Author;
The Whole Works of Roger Ascham, Now First Collected And Revised, With a Life of the Author;
Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568
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'' Eead Sallust and Tully advisedly together, and in words ye shall find small difference: yea, Sallust is more given to new words than to old, though some writers say the contrary : as t darittido for gloria^ ex- acti for perfecUj Xfacundia for doquerUia. These two last words, exacte and /acundia, now in every man's mouth, be never (as I do remember) used of Tully : and therefore I think they be not good. For surely Tully speaking every where so much of the matter of * '^Itaque senatus ob ea f...eliciter acta diis immortalibus snpplicia decemere." BeUo JugurtJUno, The following pas- sage is in Varro's second book de Re Rustka, cap. 5, but ill printed in the former edition : ** Tametsi quidam de ItaUds quos propter amplitudinem prsestare dicunt, ad victimas far- dunt, atque ad deorum servant supplicia." K. K. 5, 10. t Qunm pnesertim tarn multse variseque sint artes animi; qnibos snmma daritndo paratnr;" in his preface to the Jugarthine War. And a little after, speaking of Jugortha ; " In tantam claritudinem brevi pervenerat, nti nostris vehe- menter cams, Numantinis maximo terrori esset.'' X **Facnndia Grsecos, gloria belli Gallos ante Homanos foisse." BeUo CcUSL And in his Jugarthine : ** Sed, quoniam ea tempestate HomsB Memmii facundia clara pollensque fuit." Now -^atever Tolly's reasons were for refusing this word, yet Ovid, it is certain, was not so nice.
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