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Still such artifices, although they may be
employed at times to good effect, are not to be
indulged in indiscriminately, but only when there is
strong reason for breaking the rule. The same remark
applies to simile (which must however be brief),
metaphor and other tropes, all of which are forbidden
by our cautious and pedantic teachers of rhetoric, but
which we shall none the less occasionally employ,
unless indeed we are to disapprove of the magnificent
example of irony in the pro Ligario to which I have
already referred a few pages back.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921.
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