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Who can narrate more briefly than the hero1 who
brings the news of Patroclus' death, or more vividly
than he2 who describes the battle between the
Curetes and the Aetolians? Then consider his
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similes, his amplifications, his illustrations, digressions, indications of fact, inferences, and all the
other methods of proof and refutation which he
employs. They are so numerous that the majority
of writers on the principles of rhetoric have gone to
his works for examples of all these things.
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