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quaedam vero genera huius figurae
nullam cum tropis habent societatem, ut illa statim
prima, quae dicitur a negando, quam nonnulli
ἀντίφρασιν vocant: non agam tecum iure summo, non
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dicam, quod forsitan obtinerem;1 et quid ego istius decreta, quid rapinas, quid hereditatum possessiones datas,
quid ereptas proferam? et Mitto illam primam libidinis
iniuriam, et Ne illa quidem testimonia recito, quae dicta
sunt de HS sescentis milibus, et possum dicere.
1 debeam forsitan obtinere, MSS. of Cicero.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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