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I turn to tile discussion of ambiguity, which will
be found to have countless species: indeed, in the
opinion of certain philosophers, there is not a single
word which has not a diversity of meanings. There
are, however, very few genera, since ambiguity must
occur either in a single word or in a group of words.
[p. 155]
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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