cererem corruptam undis,et
receptusQuod fit retrorsum durius.
terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet.
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nec procul ab hoc genere discedit metonymia, quae
est nominis pro nomine positio,1 sed, ut ait Cicero,
hypallagen rhetores dicunt. haec inventas ab
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inventore et subiectas res ab obtinentibus significat: ut
1 the MSS. here inserts the words cuius vis est pro eo quod dicitur causam propter quam dicitur ponere (“the substitution of the cause for which we say a thing id place of the thing to which we refer”). the words are expunged by Spalding as a manifest gloss, so clumsily worded as to be barely intelligible, but intended to mean “the substitution of cause for effect.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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