By Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Quam in the sense of ‘as much as’ – ita . . g. g. plane, recte, ita, verum, admodum etc. 43 chapter 2 ARCHAISMS Introduction and overall review Terence stands closer to CL than Plautus. There is, however, a group of lexical, morphological and syntactical phenomena that occur in Terence in both their Early Latin and their classical forms. In these cases the EL equivalent seems to be rather the exception than the rule; it is found rarely, whereas the CL equivalent is the regular form. In Terence one often finds that the EL feature is restricted to specific plays or characters, while all others use the CL form.

I 23 p. 304c inveni cistellam quae uvas . . habebat. The word is found at Eun. 753 cistellam, Pythias, domo ecfer, in the speech of the meretrix Thais. 2. g. Cist. 21 In Terence it is found at Heaut. 514–15 videlicet ille Cliniai servos tardiusculust, in the speech of the rustic senex Chremes. 3. grandiusculus: this is the reading offered by both Donatus and Eugraphius at Andr. 814 grandiuscula iam profectast illinc. g. Epist. 2, Serm. 1, In epist. Ioh. 1 p. 2045, Epist. 8 etc. The word is used by Crito while addressing the ancilla Mysis.

E. semantically with no difference from its uncompounded equivalent, mitigare (cf. ). It is uttered by the parasite Gnatho. The word appears once more in this sense, with reference to the human body again, in Aug. C. Iul. 11 verum etiam capita sandaliis muliercularum commitigentur. Similarly, collocupleto with 34 35 For the colloquial character of such formations, cf. Cooper (1895: 258–62), Wahrmann (1908: 95). For an analytic examination of the distribution of such formations, cf. Cooper (1895: 262–71).

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