To Florus 3.88
But when something contrary to everyone’s opinion is introduced by an expression whose sound provides its whole support, a serious error is committed if its proper name is readily available but it is labeled with a borrowed, inexact term. When we are speaking of offspring, no one doubts that every person born has two parents, and this needs no corroboration. It will therefore not obstruct understanding if I say that someone was born from one person: my words will not so unsettle anyone that they think he could have been born without either a father or a mother.
Latin
Ceterum cum res aliqua contra opinionem omnium eo sermone inducitur, in cuius sono habet omne praesidium, graviter peccatur, si proprio eius nomine ad manum posito emendicata abusivi appellatione signetur. Cum ergo de fetibus sermo est, quoniam nullus dubitat, quin natus quisque duos habeat parentes, nec hoc astipulatione indiget, non incommodabit intellectui, si dicam ex uno illum esse generatum; neminem quippe sermo meus adeo permovebit, ut putet illum nasci aut sine patre aut sine matre potuisse.