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I do not agree with
those who extend the name of figure to a statement
that something has happened unexpectedly to the
[p. 389]
speaker himself, like the following passage from
Pollio: “Gentlemen, I never thought it would
come to pass that, when Scaurus was the accused,
I should have to entreat you not to allow influence
to carry any weight on his behalf.”
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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