"Texitur: exitiûm examen rapit," for exitiorum,
does not say "liberûm" as many of us do say in such an expression as cupidos liberûm, or in liberûm loco, but, as these men approve,
"Neque tuum unquam in gremium extollas liberorum ex te genus."
And again he says,—
"Namque aesculapi liberorum…."
And another of these poets says in his Chryses, not only
"Cives, antiqui amici majorum meûm,"
which was common enough; but he says, with a much more unmusical sound,—
"Consiliûm, auguriûm, atque extûm interpretes."
And again he goes on—