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There is also a third sort, which is not
attained by gradation, a height which is not a
degree beyond the superlative, but such that
nothing greater can be conceived. “You beat
your mother. What more need I say? You beat
your mother.” For to make a thing so great as
to be incapable of augmentation is in itself a kind
of augmentation.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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