Refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression, but dexterously to introduce the very expression which ought to have been used. Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 1.
Image: A centurion with a vine stick watching sword training at Birdoswald Roman Fort, 3rd century CE, by artist Philip Corke, courtesy of the BBC. I don't think a swat with a vinestick would be considered a "dexterous" way to introduce a correction, however.
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