Ah! Corydon, Corydon.
Ecl. ii. 69.
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There is a more striking class of figure, which does
not merely depend on the form of the language for
its effect, but lends both charm and force to the
thought as well. The first figure of this class which
calls for notice is that which is produced by addition.
Of this there are various kinds. Words, for instance,
may be doubled with a view to amplification, as in
“I have slain, I have slain, not Spurius Maelius”1
(where the first I have slain states what has been
done, while the second emphasises it), or to excite
pity, as in
1 Cic. pro Mil. xxvii. 72.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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