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Originally Posted by HarryT
Follow-up to the above:
It does appear to be true. I've just done a frequency search in the "Perseus" Latin archives at "perseus.tufts.edu" (probably the most complete collection of classical texts on the internet), and "virgo" is used almost three times as frequently as "puella".
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Interesting. I'm going to have to crack out the OLD when I get home.
I'm kind of tempted to type up my translation of "Cena Trimalchionis" and post it on MR. But it is an incomplete translation of an incomplete work. It is hilarious though.