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Excerpt from De Latinitate Senecae Deinde Boehmius Senecam defendit ah eis qui cum wcnsaverunt, quod nimis multa Graeca vocabula in usum suum convertisset. Quam in rem afl'ert cas voces, quae sane non ita multae sunt: arithmetica, antipodes asthma, astrapoplecta, astro nomia, alogiae, chasmata, chiragra, Cerastae, ceroma, cathedraru, hiera, chirographum, chlamydati, chriae, clepsydra, dialogi, diplomata, diadumenos et doryphoros, ergastulum, ectypus, historicus, geometres, 'geometria, grammaticus, graphium, gymnicus, halo, haphe, hypocrisis, hyperbole, idea, malacisso (ex codicum auctoritate Fickertus et Haasius malaxate ediderunt) malacia, lychnobius, opsonium, paedagogium' panto mimus, pantomima, pantomimicus, podagricus poeticus, parabola, patelia, phrenesis, phrenetici, phthisis, progymnastes, proxeneta, pseudomenos, psychrolutcs, sagmata, sela, stemma, stylus, Sphaeromachia. Quibus nonnullac aliac addcndae erant, velati pyxis, naumachia (ep. 10, 26) epitonium, scyphus. Jam vera Boehmius senten tiam eorum refutat, qui Senecam vetera. Nimis sectatum esse censent et in cam rem afi'ert locum ex Ep. 104 desumptum, ex quo cognoscimus jam multo ante Gellium veterum sectatores Romae exstitisse: Multi ex alieno sacculo petunt verba, duodecim tabulas loquuntur; Gracchus illis et Crassus et Curio nimis culti et recentes sunt, ad Appium usque et ad Coruncanum redeunt. Et sane Seneca ex priorum libris sic hausisse putandus est, ut non unam aetatem alteri praeferret' nisi forte statuere debemu� cum ex poetis Augusteae aetatis a. Quibus, ut infra docehimus, multum pendet, plura. Quam ex aliis scriptoribus deprompsisse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
