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| | ALEXANDER'S PATRIUS SERMO IN THE PHILOTAS AFFAIR |
 | | Of course, the Philotas affair went through a trial paraphernalia in contrast to the episode involving Kleitos, and this may explain in part Curtius' longer account of the Philotas affair, but at the same time the trial scene provided ample room for dramatization and invention. |
 | | This is, of course, arbitrary inference, as Philotas, too, does not indicate in what language Alexander addressed him, although from the context neither of them was speaking in the patrius sermo of therein. |
 | | However, at least to this writer, it is not clear what Philotas, or whoever put that complex sentence into his mouth, had in mind, even though it comes as an epilogue to the preceding nativus sermo (nativus sermo<>peregrina lingua). |
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