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... a lively controversy has arisen between Dr. Avellanus and Mr. Charles H. Forbes, of Phillips Academy, Andover.[77] Undoubtedly the translator's style and vocabulary are far from being strictly in accord with the present canons of classical Latin. He employs a multitude of words and idioms unfamiliar to those whose reading has been confined to the masterpieces of the ancient literature which are most commonly studied. On the other hand, the ancient language is made in these books a medium of modern ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... SIS] In classical Latin when two reasons are given, of which one is denied and the other affirmed, the verb in the affirmation ...

— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus