[16]
while still greater care is required in
teaching all the tropes1 which are employed for the
adornment more especially of poetry, but of oratory
as well, and in making his class acquainted with the
two sorts of schemata or figures known as figures of
speech and figures of thought.2
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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