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Another type of reflexion may be produced by the doubling of a phrase,
as in the letter written by Seneca for Nero to be sent
to the senate on the occasion of his mother's death,
with a view to creating the impression that he had
been in serious danger:—“As yet I cannot believe
or rejoice that I am safe.” Better, however, is the
type which relies for its effect on contrast of opposites,
as “I know from whom to fly, but whom to follow
I know not;”1 or, “What of the fact that the poor
wretch, though he could not speak,”
1 Cic. ad Att. VIII. vii. 2.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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