“
[3]
” a distinction which is self-evident. To this they add that our explanation may
refer to the past (which is of course the commonest
form), the present (for which compare Cicero's1
remarks about the excitement caused among the
friends of Chrysogonus when his name was mentioned), or of the future (a form permissible only to
prophets): for hypotyposis or picturesque description
cannot be regarded as a statement of facts.
1 pro Rosc. Am. xxii. 60.
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