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These
(and there may be yet more like them) are the various
devices for the embellishment of our style, either
by the cast of our thought or the conformation of
our language.”
Most of these statements are repeated by Cicero
in the Orator,1 but not all, while his language is
somewhat more precise, since after dealing with
figures of speech and of thought he adds a third
section, concerned, as he himself says, with the other
excellences of style.
1 xxxix. 134 sqq.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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