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quare in tropis ponuntur verba
alia pro aliis, ut in μεταφορᾷ, μετωνυμίᾳ, ἀντονομασίᾳ, μεταλήμψει, συνεκδοχῇ, καταχρήσει, ἀλληγορίᾳ, plerumque
ὑπερβολῇ; namque et rebus fit et verbis. Ὀνοματοποιία
fictio est nominis; ergo hoc quoque pro aliis
ponitur, quibus usuri fuimus, si illud non fingeremus.
Περίφρασις etiamsi frequenter et id ipsum,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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