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The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Volume 1 (of 2

Note 531 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3] (continued 2)

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It is worthy of remark that assumption of the aspirate was in the period of best Latinity a vulgar fault decried by Romans of refined speech:

Chommoda dicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et hinsidias Arrius insidias.... Ionios fluctus, post quam illuc Arrius isset, Jam non Ionios esse, sed Hionios. Catullus, lxxxii.

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