[101]
I am not sure, however, whether it is so much a figure of thought as of
speech. For the only difference lies in the fact that
universals are not contrasted with universals, but
particulars with particulars. Celsus, however, and
that careful writer Visellius regard it as a figure of
thought, while Rutilius Lupus regards it as belonging
to both, and calls it antithesis.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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