[5]
In the first place barbarisms and solecisms must not
be allowed to intrude their offensive presence. These
blemishes are however pardoned at times, because
we have become accustomed to them or because they
have age or authority in their favour or are near akin
to positive excellences, since it is often difficult to distinguish such blemishes from figures of speech.1 The
teacher therefore, that such slippery customers may
not elude detection, must seek to acquire a delicate
discrimination; but of this I will speak later when
I come to discuss figures of speech.1
1 cp. § 40.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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