Note 8 — PART I. ETYMOLOGY.
Reading edition
Noun, Nomen de quo loquimur.
Verb, Verbum seu quod loquimur.—Quint. lib. i. 4.
Horace has been thought by some to countenance this doctrine when he says,
“Donec verba, quibus voces sensusque notarent, Nominaque invenere.”—Lib. i. Sat. 3.