“Abundance of pressed milk.”[p. 11] On the other hand, in a number of instances we employ figures3 and substitute one expression for another. Instead of “I know,” we say “I am not ignorant,” or “the fact does not escape me,” or “I have not forgotten,” or “who does not know?” or “it can be doubted by none.”
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Thus, by the
figure known as abuse,1 we call all those who commit
a murder with any weapon whatsoever sicarii (poniarders). In other cases we express our meaning
periphrastically, as, for instance, when Virgil2
describes cheese as
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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