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Similitudinis est ad verbum unum contracta
brevitas, quod verbum in alieno loco tamquam in
suo positum si agnoscitur, delectat, si simile nihil habet,
repudiatur; sed ea transferri oportet, quae aut clariorem
faciunt rem, ut illa omnia:
inhorrescit mare,
tenebrae conduplicantur, noctisque et nimbum occaecat nigror,
flamma inter nubis coruscat, caelum tonitru contremit,
grando mixta imbri largifico subita praecipitans cadit,
undique omnes venti erumpunt, saevi exsistunt turbines,
fervit aestu pelagus:
omnia fere, quo essent clariora, translatis per similitudinem
verbis dicta sunt;
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M. Tulli Ciceronis Rhetorica. M. Tullius Cicero. A. S. Wilkins. 1902.
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