"Eho, tu cognatum tuum non nôras?"
And afterwards he has,—
"Stilphonem, inquam, noveras?"
Siet is the word at full length; sit is the contracted form. One may use either; and so we find in the same passage,—
"Quam cara sint, quae post carendo intelligunt,
Quamque attinendi magni dominatus sient."
Nor should I find fault with
"Scripsere alii rem."
I am aware that scripserunt is the more correct form; but I willingly comply with a fashion which is agreeable to the ears.
"Idem campus habet,"
says Eunius; and in another place he has given us,—