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Indeed Cicero1 himself has demonstrated in the most admirable manner how important it is to avoid grossness in metaphor, such
as is revealed by the following examples, which he
quotes:—“The state was gelded by the death of
Africanus,” or “Glaucia, the excrement of the
senate-house.”
1 De Or. iii. xli. 164.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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