FOOTNOTE:

[2] This word appears, by its termination _inus_, to denote a person

who was one of a class, like the word _libertinus_. The prefix _in_

appears to be the correlative of _ex_ in _exsul_, and the remaining

part _quil_ is probably related to _col_ in _incola_ and _colonus_.

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