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1. The position of the vocal organs in sounding the letter C is thus described: Marius Victorinus p. 33 K c etiam ut g …, sono proximae, oris molimine nisuque dissentiunt. Nam c reducta introrsum lingua hinc atque hinc molares urgens intra os sonum vocis excludit. G vim prioris, pari linguae habitu, palato suggerens lenius reddit; Terent. Maurus p. 331 K utrumque latus dentibus applicare linguam C pressius urget; deinde hinc et hinc remittit, Quo vocis adhaerens sonus explicetur ore; Martianus Capella 3. 271 c molaribus super linguae extrema appulsis exprimitur. (On the sound of C, which was not a guttural, but a velar, velo-palatal, or pure palatal letter, and was apparently identical, or was thought to sound identically, with K, see Seelmann, Die Aussprache Des Latein, p. 331 foll.) 2. In old Latin the sounds C and G were both expressed by C, so that C. sometimes = Gaius, and genae in an inscription found at Lyons (Wilmanns Syll. Inscr. 2759), while Cn. = Gnaeus, and the Greek ἀμοργή was spelt amurca, though pronounced amurga (Servius G. 1. 194; Ter. Maur. p. 352 K). 3. C as an abbreviation may stand for the names Caesar, Gaius, Claudius; and for the words cacus, carceris, carus, castra, censoria, centesima, centum, cicatrices, cineres, cives, civium, civitas, clarissimus, cogi, collegium, collocutus. colonia, coloni, conductor, coniux, consilio, consule, consulibus, convocari, corpus, cultor, cum (prep.), cuneus, curam, curante, -ibus, curator, curavit, curaverunt, custos.
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- Contributions to Latin Lexicography , pp. 397 - 427Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010