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[4] Itaque Plautus in Milite Glorioso, a littera in e mutata per compositi vocabuli morem, “dispessis” dicit pro eo, quod est “dispassis”:

Credo égo istoc exempló tibi esse pereundum 1 extra pórtam,
Dispéssis manibus pátibulum cum habébis.

1 pereundum, best MSS. of Plaut.; eundum, ω.

The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1927.

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