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quin adeo similitudo manifesta est, ut
ea discernere non sit in promptu. nam quo modo
quaedam in his species plane distant, manente tamen
generaliter illa societate, quod utraque res de recta
et simplici ratione cum aliqua dicendi virtute deflectitur, ita quaedam perquam tenui limite dividuntur, ut
cum ironia tam inter figuras sententiae quam inter
tropos reperiatur, περίφρασιν autem et ὑπέρβατον et
ὀνοματοποιίαν clari quoque auctores figuras verborum
potius quam tropos dixerint.
quo magis signanda est utriusque rei differentia.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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