Divus Augustus
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In ordinary conversation, he made use of several peculiar expressions, as appears from letters in his own hand-writing; in which, now and then, when he means to intimate that some persons would never pay their debts, he says, "They will pay at the Greek Calends." And when he advised patience in the present posture of affairs, he would say, "Let us be content with our Cato." To describe anything in haste, he said, "It was sooner done than asparagus is cooked." He constantly puts
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baceolus
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for
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stultus
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,
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pullejaceus
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for
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pullus
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,
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vacerrosus
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for
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cerritus
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,
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vapide se habere
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for
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male
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, and
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betizare
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for
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languere
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, which is commonly called
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lachanizare.
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Likewise
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simus
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for
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sumus
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,
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domos
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for
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domus
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in the genitive singular.
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With respect to the last two peculiarities, lest any person should imagine that they were only slips of his pen, and not customary with him, he never varies. I have likewise remarked this singularity in his hand-writing: he never divides his words, so as to carry the letters which cannot be inserted at the end of a line to the next, but puts them below the other, enclosed by a bracket.