reshki:

I’m sorry I’ve just found this part of the De Div again and it is literally my second-favourite thing in the whole of Cicero - 

ut si quis medicus aegroto imperet ut sumat ‘terrigenam, herbigradam, domiportam, sanguine cassam’ potius quam hominum more ‘cocleam’ diceret.

It is as though a doctor told his patient that he ought to take ‘an earthborn, grass-going, home-bearing thing, all lacking in blood’ instead of saying, after the ordinary fashion, ‘a snail’.

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