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scio posse videri quibusdam speciem amplificationis
hyperbolen quoque, nam et haec in utramque partem
[p. 280]
valet; sed quia excedit1 hoc nomen in tropos,
differenda est. quos continuo subiungerem, nisi
esset a ceteris separata ratio dicendi, quae constat
non propriis sed translatis.2 Demus ergo breviter
hoc desiderio iam paene publico, ne omittamus eum,
quem plerique praecipuum ac paene solum putant
orationis ornatum.
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