History & The Arts
Continuing classical Latin
...c. 84-c. 54 BCE), Roman Poet, Poem 84 Chommoda dicebat, si quando commode uellet Dicere, et insidias Arrius hinsidias, Et tum mirifice sperabat se esse locutum Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsidias. ‘Arrius used to say hadvantages, when he meant to say advantages, and hambushes when he wanted to say ambushes. He would think that he had spoken splendidly, when he had...