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Introduction to the science of language, Volume 1 (of 2)

Note 77 — Chapter II · THE NATURE AND SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

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Suetonius: “De illustr. Gramm.,” 22. “M. Pomponius Marcellus ... quum ex oratione Tiberium reprehendisset, affirmante Ateio Capitone, ‘et esse illud Latinum, et, si non esset, futurum certe jam inde;’ ‘Mentitur,’ inquit, ‘Capito. Tu enim, Cæsar, civitatem dare potes hominibus, verbo non potes.’”

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