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[29] quae eadem figura nonnunquam per ironiam ad elevandum convertitur. similis geminationis post aliquam interiectionem repetitio est, sed paulo etiam vehementior: Bona, miserum me! (consumptis enim [p. 462] lacrimis tamen infixus haeret aninmo dolor) bona, inquam, Cn. Pompeii acerbissimae voci subiecta praeconis.—vivis et vivis non ad deponendam dam, sed ad confirmandam audaciam.

Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.

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