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There remains the third class of figure designed
merely to enhance the elegance of our style, for
which reason Cicero expresses the opinion that such
figures are independent of the subject in dispute.
As an illustration I may quote the figure which he
uses in his speech1 against Clodius: “By these
means he, being familiar with all our holy rites,
thought that he might easily succeed in appeasing
the gods.”
1 Lost. An allusion presumably to the occasion when Clodius was found disguised as a woman at the mysteries of the Bona Dea.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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