[3]
In this passage the
first epithets are bad enough, but are rendered
still worse by those which follow. I consider,
However, that there are four principal methods of
implication: augmentation, comparison, reasoning and
accumulation.
Of these, augmentation is most impressive when it
ends grandeur even to comparative insignificance.
This may be effected either by one step or by
everal, and may be carried not merely to the
highest degree, but sometimes even beyond it.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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