he does not mean that there is nothing in her body to give cause for laughter.In all her body not a grain of salt!
Cat. lxxxvi. 4.
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it means that
which is said with grace and charm. Salsus is, as
a rule, applied only to what is laughable: but this
is not its natural application, although whatever is
laughable should have the salt of wit in it. For
Cicero,1 when he says that whatever has the salt of
wit is Attic, does not say this because persons of
the Attic school are specially given to laughter;
and again when Catullus says—
1 Orat. xxvi. 90.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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