where the writer has either changed the parts of speech (making his phrase a variant for virtus est [p. 449] fuga vitiorum), or the cases (in which case it will be a variant for virtutis est vitium fugere); but whichever be the case, the figure is far more vigorous than either. At times figures are joined, as in Sthenelus sciens pugnae,2 which is substituted for Sthenelus scilus pugnandi. Tenses too are interchangeable.virtus est vitium fugere,
Hor. Ep. I. i. 41. 1
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At times, again, there may be some doubt as
to the precise error which a figure resembles. Take,
for example, the phrase
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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