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Again if reason
demand one form and usage another, the claims of
rhythm will decide our choice between the two,
e.g. between vitavisse and vitasse or between deprehendere and deprendere. Further I do not object to
the coalescence of syllables or anything that does no
injury either to sense or style.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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