Plautus gives it thus (
Bacchides
, iv. 7):
"Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur."
The word is said to be illegible, and the conclusion of the letter to be lost (
Memoir of the Rev. Francis Hodgson
, vol. i. p. 196). Only the latter statement is correct. The word is perfectly legible. Talapoin (Yule's