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Galba on
the other hand made use of partition when he replied
to a friend who asked him for a cloak, “It is not
raining and you don't need it; if it does rain, I shall
wear it myself.” Similar material for jests is supplied by genus, species, property, difference, conjugates,1 adjuncts, antecedents, consequents, contraries,
causes, effects, and comparisons of things greater,
equal, or less,2 as it is also by all forms of trope.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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